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Old May 14, 2014 | 02:36 PM
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Loving this build - Work is the top choice!

I've gone through lots of cars and builds and tried everything from Fikse, Rota to my latest set of BBS wheels....it's hard to hide quality!

Work in Japan is equivalent to BBS and Volk. Those are the premium wheel brands and I believe Advan is up there as well though my experience with Advan is their finish chips way too easily. (ask me how I know)

Nothing wrong with cheap wheels if you just want looks since for a DD sometimes it's easier just to not worry about scratching something.

The Matte black IS-F on here is pretty sick too. So many nice IS-F's now, I remember when I had mine there were very few nice ones around.
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Old May 14, 2014 | 02:48 PM
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WHERES THE HD RES PICS?! i need a new desktop picture =]
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Old May 15, 2014 | 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom@SonicMS
Looks good Kyle!
Thanks Tom! Expect a call from me, I am going to need some help with installing headers again

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Loving this build - Work is the top choice!

I've gone through lots of cars and builds and tried everything from Fikse, Rota to my latest set of BBS wheels....it's hard to hide quality!

Work in Japan is equivalent to BBS and Volk. Those are the premium wheel brands and I believe Advan is up there as well though my experience with Advan is their finish chips way too easily. (ask me how I know)

Nothing wrong with cheap wheels if you just want looks since for a DD sometimes it's easier just to not worry about scratching something.

The Matte black IS-F on here is pretty sick too. So many nice IS-F's now, I remember when I had mine there were very few nice ones around.
I agree, I had Advan RS' for my Subaru and the paint help up just fine on my set. Yeah a lot of nice ISFs around now, it also seems like EVERYONE has ARKYM or Tom's nowadays

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WHERES THE HD RES PICS?! i need a new desktop picture =]
If you click on the photo it will take you to photo bucket and you can download the photo there it's got decent resolution. If you want the full HD photos I can put them up on dropbox or something!
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Old May 19, 2014 | 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by LOLM3
You will find a black grommet that will allow you to feed the wiring from the reflector to the brake light harness.

So the wiring goes
Tail Lamp Harness <---> Reflector Wiring
Solid Green <---> White (Enables Running Light)
Green and White <---> Red (Enables Bright Mode)
Black and White <---> Black (Negative)
Thanks again for the wiring information......finally got around to completing this.

I used some small line taps (used in telecommunications) with dialectic grease

Your directions worked like a charm!




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Old May 20, 2014 | 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by digger08
Thanks again for the wiring information......finally got around to completing this.

I used some small line taps (used in telecommunications) with dialectic grease

Your directions worked like a charm!




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Awesome, looks good! Glad someone on here put my instructions to use!
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Old May 23, 2014 | 09:16 PM
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thats looks pretty cool
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Old Jun 3, 2014 | 10:14 PM
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Well I spent my tax return this year on a set of these bad boys, it took a couple weeks to come in and it was worth the wait.
I know the USDM Novel headers are modified differently from the JDM versions, so I do expect a sound difference. The one thing that caught my eye was that all of the welds are cleaned up and the metal is polished unlike the initial prototype/preliminary header photos I have seen.
One last note, these will be paired with an HKS SSM axle back and a custom midpipe w/o resonators and cats.
I'll post before and after clips once I take the car in, hopefully this week. Stay tuned.







These are the only two videos I have so far.
http://instagram.com/p/oTiVNmrY7V/

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Old Jun 3, 2014 | 10:15 PM
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Here is the latest video

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Old Jun 3, 2014 | 10:22 PM
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That sounds so amazing. Reminds me of a Maserati Gran Turismo but more aggressive.
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Old Jun 27, 2014 | 09:18 PM
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As some of you know I recently acquired this last week. I have already finished refreshing the s/c, I am now waiting for gaskets, serpentine belt, air filter, plugs and a few other supporting items to come in. I also need to find time to go in for a baseline dyno.


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Old Jun 28, 2014 | 01:28 AM
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tsk tsk... TRD supercharger from a tundra would have been a safer route.
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Old Jun 28, 2014 | 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by mrkim
tsk tsk... TRD supercharger from a tundra would have been a safer route.
OOOK 'Mr. I have a 800HP IS350 and going to make a 1000HP ISF'....
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 08:51 PM
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really want to see ur car in person!! those headers bro!
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 08:59 PM
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this is going to Epic... just saying.... in for the video..
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Old Jul 14, 2014 | 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by usa5655
really want to see ur car in person!! those headers bro!
Same here, I am surprised I haven't run into you at SonicMS. I always see Hans car there, his car seems to be coming along well after all thats happened.

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this is going to Epic... just saying.... in for the video..
Thanks! Hopefully soon...
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