1990 widebody Toyota Celsior

**ppgt94** · 07-13-2006, 12:54 AM

Welcome to MP3car. Looks like you're off to a great start! Very interesting car. I like what you're doing to the interior and it's looking good. Nice idea with the 8" install. Looking forward to watching the progress

**portabuddy** · 07-13-2006, 01:00 AM

i'm speachless, your car looks amazing, all the pannels look very smooth and very well intergrated in. I actuly imported that exact kit in poly-urithane from japan for a friend but i never saw the car. it realy dose look good. if i remember correctly the kit was 2500-3000 and shipping was 500 or so. i imagine that getting the whole care shipped over cost a prity penny. hood luck in your install, looks like a lot of trunk space. can we get some shots under the hood?, and also was this a show car, some rich nuts toy or a drifter?

**turbocad6** · 07-13-2006, 01:40 AM

wow... I really like that body kit....

**Blipman** · 07-13-2006, 03:49 AM

Originally Posted by portabuddy

i'm speachless, your car looks amazing, all the pannels look very smooth and very well intergrated in. I actuly imported that exact kit in poly-urithane from japan for a friend but i never saw the car. it realy dose look good. if i remember correctly the kit was 2500-3000 and shipping was 500 or so. i imagine that getting the whole care shipped over cost a prity penny. hood luck in your install, looks like a lot of trunk space. can we get some shots under the hood?, and also was this a show car, some rich nuts toy or a drifter?

I'd be interested in more details about that, the Admiration kit isn't made any more but was around 8 grand for the parts when it was, and more than that again to properly fit and paint, the previous seller spent about 3 million yen on all the work done to the car. Underbonnet is just the standard V8, nothing special.
The car was built by a dealer in Japan who specializes in body mods, they made the car in 1999. Since then they sold it to one customer, bought it back, sold it to another customer, bought it back, and then sold it to me. I don't think it was used as anything special, if it gives you any indication of his mindset a significant part of the negotiations involved him getting to keep all of the Hello Kitty gear that was in the interior, which I was naturally not too sad to part with

Ben

**portabuddy** · 07-14-2006, 12:10 AM

Umm, let me get this straight, he spent 30000 for JUST THE BODY WORK and the only thing he wanted was some ****ty hello kitty stuff, what a moron, anyway, there should be no problem the last time i spoke with him was three years ago, around the same time i lost my buisness because of my SOB dead beat partner. i used to own my own customization/audio/performance/whatever you want buisness, where my buddy in japan came in handy, we did a lot of buisness i hope i can find his number all of my paperwork is still in boxes. i hope you dont mind waiting a bit. in the meantine, the kit did not cost that much it realy costed aroung 4-5000 to a dealer the rest was markup, i saw it for 10000 befor. the first time he found one it was a fluke and it was damaged by the manufacture. there where two models that where similar one fiberglass and the other poly-urathane(rubbery plastic) personaly i would go with the urathane. in the meantime what model is your lexus?

**Blipman** · 07-14-2006, 01:11 AM

Don't go to the effort of digging up details mate, I was just curious, I've already got the kit now so I shouldn't need that info in theory. Yep that's what was spent in Japan, that's not too surprising, labour rates in Japan are pretty outrageous, it's not at all uncommon to spend that sort of cash on a car in Japan and then to sell the car 2 years later for a quarter of the cost.... it's one of the reasons why I'm in this business!

Mine is certainly fiberglass, I don't know I'd want the eurethane, anywhere near the body where it's been blended in would crack pretty quick if there was any movement.

Ben

**Blipman** · 07-15-2006, 06:38 AM

A quick question: I bought some sound deadening sheets today (ones without adhesive already on them), while this might seem like a dumb question, which side do I glue to the metal? The one with the foam or the one which is just the straight plastic like material?

Ben

**portabuddy** · 07-15-2006, 12:22 PM

foam, and it should be like a metalic material, like milar. if you glue the other side down that will defeat the pourpose, what it dose is bounce the soundwaves, the bass bounces off of the "plastic" and back into the car and the road stayes on the metal of the car, the foam cancles it like a cushon. hope this answeres you question.

EDIT:
btw, for future refferance i found the guy, Canichi tykiomo. ha i knew i still had it.

**Matrix_24** · 07-16-2006, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by tj!2k4

wow, that looks wicked

**Blipman** · 08-19-2006, 08:06 AM

Well I've been a bit slack (plus I've been concentrating on getting the car registered) but I finally have a bit of progress made, I spent the last week running all of thw wiring through the car. Wow. I can't believe how hard this was, the amount of electronic crap in this car is unbelievable, and there are no holes from the cabin to the trunk big enough to even get an RCA through, let alone a VGA and USB extension cable (with chunky heads) or 2 gauge power supply!

Causing the most problems was removal of the electrically moving, heated, vibrating rear seat with seperate climate control (with seperate air conditioner for the rear), seperate tape player and radio controls.... it would have been SO much simpler without all that junk there.

My arch nemesis:

In the trunk there is the fuel tank, second air conditioner, air purifier, air suspension solenoids/valves and various computers and electronic boxes. All this made for no way to get thick cables through.

So I took the wimps way out and removed the factory sub (which is toast and won't be used anyway) and ran the wiring through that conveniently large hole (this is not all of them btw).

I removed almost everything from the dash back.... I had to just to run wiring to the front!

Getting 2 gauge through the firewall was equally depressing (plus RCA for camera and other wires), but with that done now I can wire things up and at least have a test system with actual sound and images!

Ben