Stance Auto Magazine JDM edition

part that has been untouched on the car. Initially, the car was
on lowering springs but when I figured out my wedding venue
had horrid speed bumps it pushed me to consider air-ride.
The struts were custom made by K-sport in Italy and to make
it more special I felt that Plush Automotive could do the
install justice as their work looks incredible and I knew it
would complement the car's styling.
On the exterior, I added custom extinctions to the body kit so
it sat nicer as well as retrofitting a diffuser from a Supra on
the rear along with a custom decat duel splayed exhaust.
Soon enough I joined the Celica-club (CCUK) and found a
community to be a great bunch and very insightful. Attended
my first car show at TRAX in 2014 and I was hooked to the
UK stance scene.
The stance was something that was ever popular at the time
in Ireland as the roads were unsuitable and car detailing
involved using a broom to mop the car. Seeing the standard
of cars at TRAX, I decided my stock t-sport was simply on
the bottom tier of car modifying.
My initial focus was on styling so I purchased a TRD body
kit and purchased a new set of rims, from there everything
just spiralled out of control to the point where I think six
years ago I would not have imagined the car built to have
gone this far You would struggle to find any
At that, I had been to loads of show but always dreaded the
recurring question of how much power it was running as it?
At the time the styling mods were complete but the car still
was running 190bhp NA.
Focus then shifted to performance gains and initially I fitted
Nitrous but it simply was not enough so I decided the car
deserved bigger power. I then took the car off the road for two
years while I tirelessly carried the supercharger build.
The biggest drawback is that there is not a turbo/supercharger
kit readily available so this entire build is using universal parts
which were often frustrating as it meant numerous orders and
returns until parts fitted.
Future plans:
Recently I have had to think towards next summer and how
I can get to car shows but still involve my son so I have
removed the passenger’s side bucket seat to reinstall a
stripped-back stock seat, I welded an Isofix fitting meaning
that he will be able to enjoy this car as much as I do.
This car already owes me a mortgage but my dream to get a
magazine feature, YouTube feature and show & shine spots
will mean that I am still not finished with this car. For this
winter I plan to fit a carbon fibre hood and explore the
possibility of getting the car wrapped in a Red Bull Drift car
livery.
On my front driveway, I uprated every supporting mod at the
same time before driving almost three hours up to Doncaster
with a base map restricted to 50mph.
My expectations were to be around 300+ but Wayne (Race
Dyno Tuning) pulled out all the stops and returned the car
with a healthy 364bhp. This shocked me as it makes the car
the fastest Gen 7 Celica on stock internals.
The car sticks to the road now and with the D2 6 pot brakes, it
makes a fantastic fast road car.