Final Act

During my installation of the Camcon, I was promised higher power and better fuel consumption. I barely gained 2 whp and now I feel that my fuel consumption is still the same as before although there is an increase in acceleration. Furthermore, after removing the butterfly valve the power seems laggy and not smooth.

Butterfly Valve

After talking to many other owners, I have decided to go for another tuning at Sunway specifically at Millennium Auto. This facility uses a lighter dyno machine, Dyno Dynamics that produces a lower reading. I had to add 20 whp or 15.4% exactly. At the end, I got 149 whp with a total of 10 whp increase from Camcon. This is what I call power.

Millenium actually took much longer than I expected on my car and the result was tremendous. My car has increased in power and is much smoother. I hit 202km/h after the tune and I'm pleased. In the end, the conclusion is that Trials has fallen and is time to try other tuners. This was my final act on my Celica before I left Malaysia and went to UK for studies.

Busy week

It has been quiet in the mod area as I was busy with a lot of maintenance trips to get my car in top shape. However, in the sprit of modding, I did manage to squeeze in 2 mods which was great. The first one I did was installing a digital speed meter. Not only does it tell a more accurate speed than an analog meter, it also has the function of eliminating the Japanese speed cut of 180km/h.

At first I thought about removing the speed cut but I dun really get to that speed normally on the road so it would be a waste of money. However, when I found this really cheap one, I immediately wanted it. The one I bought is a very old Pivot Speed Meter/Limiter Cut which removes the speed cut, tells the fastest you driven during that drive and provide time attacks. According to the meter, my top speed is 199km/h but I could not reach that the 2nd time.

The 2nd mod would be installing my long bought much thicker TRD front anti roll bar which was bought months ago. Finally, I have found someone to install it. Along with my TRD M Sports suspension tower plate (recently bought), my handling has improved tremendously even after the realigning of rear tires and lousy tires that brought down my performance.

Suspension Tower Plates

Standard (black) & TRD (yellow) anti roll bars

It has been a long week with literally many trips to mechanics and it really took everything out of me and burned a big hole in my wallet. However, I'm happy with my mods.