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Thanks As Kevin said, pretty easy. Usually everything that can go wrong, does go wrong for me and it was fine so... Cheers, a whole year of punishment now haha!

Haven't posted in here for ages, partly through laziness and partly because I haven't done a lot but some changes have been made in the past year (mostly the past couple of months) so I thought I'd do a little update. Maybe not so little... The day before my last post I went and had the rest of the Tomei system fitted (over pipe and UEL manifold), a HKS panel filter dropped in and had the car mapped with EcuTek software. The torque dip was gone, shortly followed by my hearing One can't really exaggerate how loud this car is now and yet I wouldn't have it any other way. I can't stop smiling when driving the thing, it's absolutely hilarious to me and a year on I'm not sick of it in the slightest! I do wish it popped a little more but other than that, it's marvellous. Then on the first day of October at 6 months old, it had it's first service. Such excite, wow. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENED between then and it's second service at a year old on the last day of March this year, apart from me fitting some Grimmspeed hood struts over Christmas. I was struggling to think of something for the lady to get me for Christmas and these didn't cost the earth. I went for the Grimmspeed ones as I didn't want any of the cheap/generic ones and these seemed to fare better in comments etc than the GReddy ones that I originally wanted. They also have a nice dead zone in the middle too which will probably come in handy when I have something to show off under the bonnet and it's not windy. At the end of May I started making some changes and ordered the smoked Valenti rear lights, bumper fog/reverse light and side markers. Unfortunately the bumper light was out of stock (turned out to be a 3 months odd wait). Despite getting this with the rear lights because I thought the rear would look naff with smoked rear lights and clear bumper light, I was too impatient/excited to get them on... I'm not going to go in to the absolute nightmare that I had with the side markers but long story short I've only just got them fitted properly and sorted a few weeks ago! (2nd set too, knackered the first set with glue remover fml) A few days later I finally got round to getting a cover on for the empty exhaust hole after what seemed like an eternity waiting for one. @James@Amber now supplies these if anyone else considers the single exit route. I've always loved the single big exit on Japanese cars which is partly why I went for the setup I have. I wasn't too bothered about the empty hole but now I have the cover on I'll be the first to admit it looks a LOT better than it did. Fast forward a couple of months to the end of last month (had to wait for an OOS item again) and I had these items fitted. Tein Flex A coilovers and Summit rear camber arms, I also had the Cusco headlight adjustment rod fitted too (which I still haven't adjusted oops...) I then finally received the Valenti bumper light!!! After doing a bit of DIY rewiring of it's internals which I miraculously didn't balls up I got it fitted... Oh yea, I painted both my Toyota badges black too which look fantastic IMO. Absolutely love the smoked Valenti lights on a white car and now the bumper light is on too The DIY wiring on the bumper light btw was to make the V light come on with the running lights, otherwise it only comes on with the fog light (triangle at the top). I was rather disappointed when I found out this was the default behaviour, also a bit scared of the prospect of doing a hack/mod on my brand new light but it all worked out well. Here are some shots of how the car is sitting now, taken a couple of weeks ago... Front badge was still being painted, oops... And badge back on Car is lowered 30mm and has been set up with -2.5deg front and -2deg rear camber in preparation for my new wheels which had an 8-9 week lead time as they are made to order in Japan. This wait is almost over now and I'm glad because I can't hold on much longer for fear of bursting. Car is really starting to get to where I want it visually now, once the new wheels are on I'll be extremely happy with it (bloody hope so anyway). Remaining external bits that will take priority are tinting the rear windows and wrapping the roof and front lip in gloss black. These will be done as and when along with things like a strut tower bar and P3 gauge as my next primary goal is saving for a Tuning Developments trip Think that's all for now, I'll do an update once the rims are on

Welcome to the club!

Welcome to the club!

I think a lot of people haven't heard anything yet Steve, myself included. I'm sure they'll get to you.

Ah shit @Kristov4 Sorry to see this, glad you're okay though!!!

Glad to see you managed to offload them in the end, highlight of the meet that was! Locked

It'll be fine

Hello and welcome, see you Saturday

Cheers @Will T8WMM, might get myself one of those.

Welcome

Welcome along

Welcome to the club

They won't come off unless you put a pressure washer right on them at close range. Be a little careful when drying too. Obviously if you take it to someone to have it washed you lose control over that (or if someone at a garage decides to hose down your car for you without you asking for it )

Welcome to the club. Nice car, love the afterfire

Welcome to the club There is a meet at The Grasshopper Inn on the 3rd September which isn't too far from you if you're free

Welcome to the club, hopefully the wait isn't too painful for you!

I'll be there!

I was referring to his wheels going up in the arches, I'll probably have them quite stiff though. Won't be going too low, exhaust sits lower down than most...

Sorry guys but I'm going to have to pull out of this one, really not going to be able to afford it this month. Another one next year though?

Oh definitely Saturday then if it determines what karts we get

Ah, that makes me feel a little better...

You've got me worried about the Flex As now as I was planning on going as low as I can get away with...

Always up for food! I think I'd prefer the Saturday as it'll probably take me about 2 hours to get home but it really doesn't matter too much with the nature of my work. Thought I'd mention it though in case it's a tight call on day preference

LOL it's been a while I've been surprised no one said anything. I'm the stealth moderator I may have done some minor helpful things but again, that stealth...