88supramki

That's a sick build! Can I buy your Foto Flame?

SC_coupe

Thoroughly enjoyed reading through this thread - nice build.

kez

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Now that's a drift soarer well done

AlphaMotor

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Very sick Mabru!

JE

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She's got a purty mouth.

Good work.

luvmysc400

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Congrats, quality build!

97-SC300

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Wow. You guys don't mess around. Nice to see some quality work being done on these cars. Congrats.

mabru

Heh, it wasn't a bachelor pad, I was married at the time, I just didn't use the dining room much Thanks for the kind words.

1JZPWRD

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ONLY ten post and this kind of work..... WTF? Thats a great looking car and motor setup you got there... Very nice build man.,..

mabru

I was on Supraforums and some others, just lurked here. I'll be more active in the future. I've learned quite a bit about the JZZ30 chassis and ins and outs of everything attached to it during this process.

mabru

Update:

Fixed a small oil leak in pan girdle and adjusted the rear sway bar. When I brought the car off the lift, the damned digital dash went dead! Truly a love/hate relationship with this car. It's been parked for now and I'm driving my FD a bit. I have a spare digital cluster, just need to swap them out, the car is 20 years old after all, I guess it was good that the cluster lasted this long.

DShiekhi

One Sexy SC: This Toyota Soarer (Lexus SC) Proves That the J in JDM Doesn't Stand for "Junk"



All great project car builds have to start somewhere. Some begin with a factory-fresh vehicle. Others begin the way this Toyota Soarer (Lexus SC) did: with a blown-out tire, a bad starter, half of an interior, and no inspection sticker.

Read the rest on the ClubLexus.com homepage. >>

BiGEZ

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Great job on the build, love the way you finished it up.

megamax

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bump, how the hell did u get this manifold to fit?

mabru

Man, I forgot all about this thread! Long convoluted story, I sold the car a while back since I had it and a built FD3S sitting in the driveway with a second child on the way. Neither was good for carting the kids around. I got out of cars completely, closed up our shop since my shop partner had just had a kid of his own, and bought a 70 series diesel Land Cruiser.

Fast forward a few years and I was going stir crazy. The wife, being the good woman that she is, thought I should get back into cars.
So, I bought one of these (sorry, not a Lexus):
1982 Celica XX (supra Mk2 in the US)

Then I built one of these for it:
JZX100 VVTI 1JZGTE with 6262 billet turbo
The car has less than 50,000 miles on it, was garage kept, everything was documented and original, and I'm the third owner. I've already put coilovers on it, wheels, tires, and a few other minor things. I have everything I need to make around 450-500 whp at a conservative boost setting. Weight on the JDM model as titled is 2639lbs with the original auto and (way too heavy) 1G straight six.