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@@Ma70rk miami

Damn 🤣 whole other side of the country lol I picked up the bushing tool for about 150. Well worth it IMO.

Ayyee what's good @staticgru and @andrewwolvin964 🤘🏼🤘🏼

🙏🏼🙏🏼 you as well bro, good times🤘🏼

That's dope bro 👌🏽 I heard about it in like 2019 when I got my Matrix, def been a process. Definitely rolling again next year

Hell yeah bro! The SoCal hospitality was definitely welcoming 🤘🏼

Check in your kick panel area on the driver side floor. If you see brake fluid down there, it's probably it. Do your brakes feel OK?

@@Ma70rk i will check, brakes are fine

@@Ma70rk ok so I just checked, and it’s oil there. So it’s definitely it

I swear the cotter pin to hold the clutch pedal is a PITA and as long as the hard lines aren't seized its not too bad. If you're not gonna use a vacuum pump / have a friend to pump the clutch for you it might be better to bench bleed the new master cylinder before installing

@@Ma70rk ok thanks! Do I need to remove any panels or so beforehand?

Surprisingly well. Especially for how much it costs. I'll be posting a followup video soon!

@thai2zz35 much appreciated bro 🙏🏼 this was one of my first videos and wished I filmed it a little different lol but I definitely wanna re visit to compare cold air intake. Eventually I want him to tune it with the link ecu goal is not more power, but flatter torque curve, more consistent power through the Rev range

-10° camber!? Your tire like riding on the shoulder? Damn they ignored the big ass hump pointing down? Lmao

@@Ma70rk Lmao I'm exaggerating, it's probably not that bad but it's definitely off. Especially on the drivers side, just looking at it you can tell it's off. I think I'm gonna end up replacing the whole axle beam whenever i get around to doing the bushings, but I could probably get away with some shims in the meantime. It got bent when I was doing my clutch, told my buddy to go lift up the rear end and instead of using the lift point under the trunk, he put the jack right in the middle of the axle beam. It's bent like a bow now, and is especially noticeable since the TRD sway bar stayed rigidly straight.

​@PlayinWithMahWii yeah once you get the beam, definitely a good time to hit the bushings, might be easier with the beam out too. It's just a process with the shims, gotta get one alignment to find where you are, then shim to correct followed by another alignment to check and correct the front accordingly

@@Ma70rk Good shit man, seems like I just have to get an alignment that comes with a lifetime warranty, then I can just go back after dropping the beam to get it dialed in for free 👍🏻

That's dope! Then you're all set maybe one day make it to cali for toyotafest lol there were only 5 of us there this past weekend

Lmao the headlights change the game bro, def recommend the retrofit especially now it's way more affordable. California is awesome, we just pay in taxes, cost of living and gun laws 😂 gotta drive an 18yo toyota. But hell yeah bro, this platform is heavily slept on, but in a good way for now. Appreciate the support 🤘🏼

Nice bro! Yeah it's a car I didn't expect to love at all. I got mine because my first kid was coming, needed something bigger. I found this one for 1k, definitely been a journey but we'll worth it. Weak point on these cars is lack of rear adjustability, once it's dialed it's like a whole new car. I appreciate the support ! 🤘🏼

Only real ones will understand 🤘🏼

Much appreciated 🙏🏼 I think alignment/ suspension geometry is too often overlooked. Thanks for watching / support 🤘🏼

🙏🏼🙏🏼 it's the hard truth but it feels fast-ish 🤣

Much appreciated 🙏🏼 yeah not a whole lot of support on our chassis. IMO the setup is dial in the suspension, polyurethane bushings/motor mounts, rear sway bar good brakes and tires and make it as light as possible. the car can handle really well if you don't care too much about "style" with ride height/wheel gaps

@@Ma70rk thinking about modding the stock air box. Similar to the how they mod the stock s2k air box mainly for induction noise since there’s seems be little benefit of actual cold air and the carb legal ones are way too overpriced for a minimal bump in power. Plus, the Reflash it self would also need a full exhaust upgrade 🫠

I've read on forums about people either drilling out the bottom, shaving the inside ridges and plugging the butterfly valve to the air box. Personally I've tried plugging the valve, it's real minimal. But I plugged it back in. I believe a cold air plus tune would see some decent gains. Or honestly just the tune. May not increase power much, but we can get a much nicer torque curve. I'm saving for either a link ecu or powerFC, need more subscribers 🤣 I haven't heard an exhaust for our cars that i like. Our biggest limitation is the bottlenecking happening at the header collector. Piping gets shrunk down to under 2in. I think ideal for me would be like a race header and the quietest muffler you could find

@@Ma70rk personally just looking for intake noise, I am currently running a mwr reflash that adjusts the lift to 5800 and bumps the limiter. I think it’s a must if you have an +05 since the stock lift is at 6800 🤢. Also, speaking about the exhaust options, the current prices for the headers is tough pill to swallow with them being around 1k. I recently saw plm is planning on making a knockoff header of the ppe header for 400 so that could be an option. I personally would get ppe header and go with a full 2.75 custom exhaust with the vibrant street power muffler and their longest resonator. But, paying over 1.5k for a full exhaust setup is hard to justify considering I bought the car less than that and I am at 250k miles rn.

@Sittnslideways nice! So you already got some goodies, for the price, I'd rather invest in getting lsd installed over an exhaust system. I seen that plm one, it's like pre-order for that price right? I reached out to them to try and be the guinea pig for fitment and dyno lol. But intake noise, I really liked my short ram, but the 1-2hp gain at almost redline wasn't worth the worse torque curve

Yeah, these characteristics happen due to lowering the car past a certain point, regardless of which coilover setup. The less complicated solution is to just raise the car 😂 Thanks for watching and the support!

@@Ma70rk This happened even with the Bilstein and Lowering Spring setup?

@Jojo._. no, the bilstein kit, and other model specific setups are designed really well and engineered really well and the roll center is optimized. The drop is perfect imo for handling and looks more OE. Roll center adjusters mainly beneficial if you're lowering past this point

Currently, my Engine head is being overhauled and new Cosmo head gasket.

What's up bro, you should roll through! So far the BCs have been great the biggest flaw isn't necessarily with the coilovers themselves, it's the suspension design of the chassis. If the roll center/ rear camber and toe can be corrected, it will probably handle better. I'm currently working on that part and will post a video as well I 100% support the projector retrofit. I still have my oem headlights from my is350 that I was gonna use, but just went with a kit from theretrofitsource

It is, but it's gonna be a challenge getting the tie rods off. If you can't get the green tool, get a 29mm crows foot adapter

It looks like part of the irs would have to be shaved and brackets need to be fabricated because mounting is completely different 🤔. I have roll center adjusters coming in and hoping between that and the rear shims it can at least be better

@@Ma70rk hmm interesting, I haven’t seen a 4wd in person yet but I was assuming that all matrix would have the mounting spots still available or covered at least maybe 04+ models. I’ll have to get lucky at pick n pull and try to mock it up there.

@Sittnslideways that's where I was comparing the celica gts and matrix 😂 I'm always looking out for a 4wd to come through the yard, but looking at parts diagrams, it looks like different mounting points for the subframe. Would completely transform our chassis tho

@@Ma70rk exactly, the only way I see the car being a more serious alternative to Hondas and Acuras.

@Sittnslideways yeah not sure why they didn't put it in the xrs. Not like they had to completely redesign things. Lmao but true, just a few things to really contend with Honda

I'll be bringing the matrix !🤙🏼

Ayoooo

No problem! Not too hard as long as you have the tie rod tools. 👌🏽

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Much appreciated bro🙏🏼 yours will! The process is the fun part

Ayyyee! Good look bro! 🙏🏼You already know, shitboxes ftw

Does that make it rust out? Are you gonna have to resort to destroying it out?

03 the best year, hope any of my videos can help you out 👌

🙏🏼🙏🏼 was always a fan of the Grey on white

What's up man! I like the BCs aside from having to bore out the strut holes. You shouldn't have an issue though. But hell yeah! I usually hit up the cars and coffees in fairfield, San rafael and treasure island. But no, my car is painted. I attempted to wrap it in a similar color with Avery Dennison wrap. It went horribly lol so I just got it painted

@@Ma70rk They did a great job. Thats not a Maaco paint job!

@lemmaghamil5761 . . . What if I told you, it IS a MAACO paint job 😭 I've heard horror stories but heard good things aboutFairfield MAACO and I can't complain

@@Ma70rk OK. That is crazy. Can't believe it. Would you be willing to communicate over email? I don't really do social media and such. Even posting on TH-cam is a new thing for me. Thanks.

@@lemmaghamil5761 potleft@gmail.com

It was rated what, 190 at the crank? It is old, feels good though. Your car dynod at 180whp? That's solid 👌🏽 also depending on the dyno/conditions. I wanted to know the difference between the intakes

Show us your Dyno sheets. Otherwise, you’re clapped out with some numbers off a brochure 😂

@@thai2zz35 🤣 180whp would be impressive

Much appreciated 🙏🏼. The ones changed in this video were GM tie rods I bought on RockAuto about 4 years ago. This time I just replaced with Napa Gold series

🙏🏼 much appreciated, thanks for watching 🤘🏼

No, the "H" brace is just sitting in the garage and the control arm brace is my hood prop for the mk3 🤣. But yeah I think it could have, but I would need to run longer control arm bolts. Maybe I'll revisit it with new hardware

Lol all good fun, for my 12% female viewers 🤣 the car was painted almost 2 years ago, but I will be detailing my mk3 supra soon, will post a video as well. Notes taken no lip smacking in the future 😅 it's gonna be a 4 step process from wash,clay bay, cut/polish and wax or ceramic coat. Thanks for watching tho 🙏🏼

@@Ma70rk lmao. Looking forward to seeing more videos. I’m going to buy the 3M and follow your video. Thanks.

Lmao on paper yes, in practice, I don't think so.. but 4 doors tho 😂

Definitely not a typical tuner car at all, but it's got character. I like it the same way people like cars that need 2 stroke oil and weird doors that open backwards 😆. Def don't see them too often which is cool

Nobody? Damn that means I’m a nobody too then 😂. Nah, I ain’t taking that - you should start traveling because there’s modified Matrices everywhere, bud 😂. Seriously 😂

Much appreciated 🙏🏼 front spring rates are 475lbs/in rears 250lbs/in. The shorter fatter ones were for the rear, the rear perch is a different shape vs fronts

You got yourself a reunion every month 🤘🏼 🤣

@@Ma70rk yes, it was more of an every weekend during the season unless we were rained out. Then we waited on the rain to stop to try and prep the track. Some nights we wouldn't leave until 1- 2 am

@honderrez209 😂😂 cmon bro bay area the center of sustainability. I honestly thought of taking it home, probably still worked 😂 Thanks for watching tho ! 209 🤘🏼

@@Ma70rk You should of, and name the video "FROM TRASHY TO CLASSY" 😂😂..

@Honderrez209 😂 brace sucks, but this shirt no wrinkles tho!

Yeah, they can carry the weight. They're probably good for someone who does not want to go as low as lowering springs OR want a linear spring rate with a specific shock. It just wasn't what I was looking for. Also, thanks for watching!

Yeah man, was super disappointed. I had mine like past the lowest setting. Maybe good for someone who doesn't want to go as low as just lowering springs? I've ordered some BC DS coilovers so will update when those get installed, Thanks for watching!

@tylerthebald3992 Appreciate it brother! trying to get better with every video. But you can definitely do it, most important steps are dont cross thread the tie rods on, make sure they thread all the way in and torque everything to spec!

Hell yeah bro! I try to make it out every month but missed the last 2, good turnouts and chill people at ff cars&coffee/jdm invasion. Working on filmiing/editing so more to come, thanks for watching🤘🏼 I'll catch you out there

I don't have coilovers either 🤣 i don't like my wheel gap, but the car is fun to drive and super practical daily