What's this!? Aaron's 93 Corolla Build Thread

I figured it was about time I made a build thread since everyone else has one Also because spring will be rolling around soon here and I have some things planned for the car

Alright, I'm Aaron as a few of you know. And this is my 93' Toyota Corolla I purchased from my parents April 2011. When I purchased it it had around 125-130,000km, as of today 05/02/2012, it has 153,000km. It has a nice history in my family which is why I plan on keeping her for as long as she runs.

Few modifications:
Under the hood:
NGK spark plug wires
NGK iridium spark plugs
Insys SRI

Suspension/Wheels/Brakes,etc.
Tokico Blue front struts
KYB Excel G rear struts
Monroe Rotors
ATE Brake Pads
OEM Strut bar

Audio/Visual:
Sony XPLOD head unit
Sony XPLOD 400W RMS 10" Subwoofer
Q-Power 300W RMS 10" Subwoofer
2x Pioneer 2-way 60W RMS 4" Door speakers
2x Pioneer 3-way 200W RMS 6x9" Rear Speakers
2x Pioneer 2-way 175W RMS 6x9" Rear Speakers
Sony 2 channel 800W XPLOD Amp (broke)
Pioneer 2 channel 350W Amp (sold)
LanzarMAX 2000W Amp

When I first got her:










My brother had a big ass spoiler on there before :/

Dirty engine-bays make baby Jesus cry.


More shots.


Repainting front bumper.




After I repainted the bumper and took the side decal things off, and put on some hubcaps.





Valve cap painting.






Got a oem strut bar. Engine bay shot!


My clean trunk.

New door speakers.


Plasti-dipped my emblems.



Body work.















Shot after a car wash, completely unedited.


Big ass tree.


Engine bay shot!

Dynamic engine bay shot!


First snowfall of 2011/2012:




Car accident:


I was driving to a friends house, and was going around a corner that had a guard rail on the one side, and a person was coming at me from the left, and they were driving too fast and couldn't stop, so I weighed the options of trying to accelerate past and miss them and possibly slide into the guard rail, or get hit from the side, so I gunned it, and ended up barely missing getting hit by the other person who slid right through the stop sign, then as I hit the guard rail they drove away :/

While my car was waiting to get the fender fixed and sitting in the back I bought a new 2000W amp, as well as a second sub, and all new wiring and ran it.



I also got 2 new speakers and installed them/rewired my rear deck.


Car is back on the road. My local auto body place said they can make me spray cans for $15 each of a better matching colour for my car, so I am going to redo the paint on the rockers, as well as the paint on the front and rear bumpers as there is scuffs on both. Also on the trunk lid.

Action shot! by the local Toyota.


Some winter driving.




Gotta have that Tim Horton's.


Pics at the rink where I have spent most of my winter childhood.



Bit of a recent photoshoot.






Owners club


Planned:
I am getting the whole suspension redone soon. The rear springs were bad when I first got the car, and now I have blown the rear left strut so it's finally time for a new set up. I am thinking GR2's with Megan or Tein lowering springs as the place I am going to can get them all in pretty easily.
I am looking at a Megan N1 muffler too, just to give my car a better sound, besides the old muffler is all beat up already.
I am also looking at perhaps getting a lip or something for the front bumper, but we shall see.

wow awesome work there aaron.. i love the colour, what is the colour code for it?

3K4 if I remember correctly. (Sunfire Red Pearl).

And thanks haha

wow very nice nice car.i am a real fan of red corollas.both ae101 and the new e140

you should both add to this thread then

http://www.ae101ownersclub.com/t130-what-colour-is-your-car

I cant help but ponder what that toggle switch is for in your first pic on your dash. I love Toggle switches lol. and very nice work on the valve cover! Looks Awesome!

Nice, there are some pics I don't think I've seen before! Let me know when the rust comes back through lol :p

Thanks guys.

And the rust.... yeah the rust haha. I'm hoping it'll stay away for a year or two, by then I'll hopefully have enough to get another car. Still love this little thing though

And the toggle switch is for NOS.















Just kidding, I wish. It's to turn the Command Start on and off in my car, so I can start it in teh winterz so she warms up and defrosts before I head to school and such.

lol nice

Lol, but you can always tell your friends it NOS lol. ...but still, being in Canada, I would say thats a pretty handy feature

Hahah I've told a few friends that in the past, they were amazed for the time being. And Oh yeah it's very handy haha.

Kay so I have a predicament. I am purchasing these rims from a guy for $250, tires are 85ish % tread left, which is an insanely good deal I think seeing as how he just wants to get rid of them. Pics are below:





My friend has a sand blaster as the rims need a bit of a makeover, and my local autobody shop said they could powder them for about $30 per rim. I either want to be flashy with this, or low profile. I was thinking either a powder coat of candy green, or just powder black over the rims. What do you guys think?

are they 17"?

i would paint them white or gold

Nice Rims dude! Good call on the 7 spoke! and I would have to agree with the white powder coat. That would look very nice among the red contrast of your car...and if you wanted, you could always paint your calipers Gold to really set it off! Good Luck on what ever you do.

Thanks haha. I really like the white or perhaps a gunmetal gray. We shall see haha, I need to go get the rims first But yeah they are 17x7

Took this shot this morning when I was picking up something at a friends house.

awesome, loving the shadow

Just wondering if you had to pay for any additional customs charges to have the decals shipped to canada? ...I got hit with an extra $40.85 customs charge when I ordered my Magnaflow CC from Salt Lake City in the states...Its weird, sometimes they charge, and sometimes they dont.

I didn't when I ordered through the guy on these forums, no. I don't usually get charged (for auto parts) unless I use autopartsway and sometimes rockauto.

lovin' those headlights! keep it up bro!

black or gunmetal grey rims would look great mate hope you post up pics when done

Thanks guys!

and..

Some pics from February when a friend and I went for a nice rip down an extremely muddy track road






Some pics of the screw driver "drifter" key I made a little while back




Tinted my front signals.




And a random shot that a friend of mine took of her Civic SI, with my Corolla and some of my other friends cars.

You like dirt, don't you haha? Or do they not pave roads around there.

Is it that obvious I love the dirt hahah. But yeah no, there's so many back roads out here to rip down, and like 50% of the paved roads are littered with potholes. At least in my town :/