DRIVEN 04 SOLARA..Sorry for novel

[SteVTEC]

Tiem's 1998 Camry CE V6 5spd

http://www.supercamry.com/


Dyno was stock with 93 octane fuel.

[lildk50]

as much as i'm diggin the 3.3l vvti engine (i wish toyota thought of vvti for us 2k kids) I can't say i'ma fan of the new body...i like the old boxy a$$ that comes on my car.

[700t]

as much as i'm diggin the 3.3l vvti engine (i wish toyota thought of vvti for us 2k kids)

I could'nt agree with you more, I always thought why didn't they add the 210hp(Sienna got it in 2001)as did Avalon I think,or the 220hp vvt-i(as did RX300 in 1999) especially since Solara is somewhat of a sporty performance coupe.
After 2 model years sales started to drop off so it would have been a good way to prop up sales to add vvt-i in 2001 from a business standpoint.

[Dave D]

I was in for an oil change and figured I would take it for a test drive. It's pretty nice. The interior is awesome. Has anyone looked under the hood? There's not much room. Doesn't look like you could fit a supercharger in there. I did notice that Toyota had moved the cold air intake up to where the hood meets the grill instead of under the right headlight assembly. I never could figure out why Toyota engineers thought that would be a good place for an air intake. It had to be restrictive.
Anyway, the car's responsive and feels good on the road. Seems fast too! I think I scared the crap out of the sales person when I kicked in the shift- matic, tip-tronic (or whatever the hell you want to call it) and let that puppy eat! Works pretty good too. I would take a little getting used to, but it definately works and it's fun. I think I would probably use it a lot. I'm a little pissed that you can't get leather and the Nav system on the Sport model. Likewise, you can't get the body kit and tuned suspension on the SLE. I'll probably wait till the 05 comes out to get serious about buying a new one. You never know what Toyota will do about options. My 99 just turned over to 100,000 miles, and I'm thinking about a new ride. It will be a toss up between The Solara and an IS300.

[Dave D]

I didn't know we were censored. I didn't mean to say Shoot! Honest. Please don't tell my mom!

[Flipside909]

don't expect a TRD version, supercharger or convertible model any time soon. give it 1 year+. the manager is merely trying to spark your interest.

the system will not kick you out of gear when you redline nor auto shift up, only down

nope, it does. tried it myself. an auto trans will not let you blow it up.

It actually was really really responsive

i couldn't disagree more. it felt very clumsy to me.

but after 3700, man the things just took off, and it redlines about 6300, short,

3700+ is the vvt-i,
the redline starts at 5900rpms.

please keep all further '04 solara posts restricted to these threads:
http://www.zer0.info/solaraguy/viewtopic.php?t=4862

http://www.zer0.info/solaraguy/viewtopic.php?t=4579

http://www.zer0.info/solaraguy/viewtopic.php?t=3368&highlight=solara

Woo hoo...great to see we see eye to eye on things! Great job! And yes i couldn't agree with you more on the 04 because it's nothing great at all...at least in my opinion.

[Flipside909]

don't expect a TRD version, supercharger or convertible model any time soon. give it 1 year+. the manager is merely trying to spark your interest.

the system will not kick you out of gear when you redline nor auto shift up, only down

nope, it does. tried it myself. an auto trans will not let you blow it up.

It actually was really really responsive

i couldn't disagree more. it felt very clumsy to me.

but after 3700, man the things just took off, and it redlines about 6300, short,

3700+ is the vvt-i,
the redline starts at 5900rpms.

please keep all further '04 solara posts restricted to these threads:
http://www.zer0.info/solaraguy/viewtopic.php?t=4862

http://www.zer0.info/solaraguy/viewtopic.php?t=4579

http://www.zer0.info/solaraguy/viewtopic.php?t=3368&highlight=solara

Woo hoo...great to see we see eye to eye on things! Great job! And yes i couldn't agree with you more on the 04 because it's nothing great at all...at least in my opinion.

[Flipside909]

Tiem's 1998 Camry CE V6 5spd

http://www.supercamry.com/


Dyno was stock with 93 octane fuel.

Hey...great to see you over here. I remember you from AV6 and Maxima.org or was it the CL boards. I forgot...but yeah..welcome!