From Honda to Lexus, newbie from Chicagoland
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From Honda to Lexus, newbie from Chicagoland
Hello y'all , name is Alberto, 25 from west suburbs of chicagoland. My track record of vehicles is: 97 civic dx, 94 integra ls , 12 lancer es, 13 wrx... and after moving out of parents house and not being able to afford monthly payments 12 civic si.
i was gonna keep the civic stock but a friend introduced me to autoX and track days and little by little the civic si is going to become a dedicated time attack vehicle.
so i needed a daily, got sick and tired of dailying a straight piped lawn mower with two doors, so a friend of mine sold me his 2001 lexus is300 for $2000.00 had 207k miles on chasis and 140ish on motor.
came mostly stock, i believe rotas on the front and nissan 240sx wheels on back with bald tires, i work for Firestone so i put a fresh set of Firehawk AS on the back, Andrew (my friend) will give me the other two rotas later this week and ill keep the nissan wheels as spares (car is missing donut)
i also painted the nissan wheels black because it was bothering me.
Apparently the windshielf washer reservoir is missing because he installed a short ram intake, the AEM filter fell appart in my hands so i got a cheap SPECTER filter in place of it, eventually i may get a reservoir and OEM air box because with winter and salt i rather have a sprayer.
doing a lot of maintenance and very light modification.
fresh brakes all around, pads and rotors, new calipers on rewr, leftover Motul DOT 5.1 fluid that i use in the civic, some cheap slotted drilled rotors that were on the trunk of the car lol, new inner and outer tie rods, new AT pan gasket and switched the ATF Temperature sensor .
Did a drain and fill on the tranny.
few other things that i bought
LED everything. LED dome lights, map, license plate, yellow fog lights, and hyper white cluster bulbs.
i am glad the lug pattern matches the civic so i will be able to put my Maxxim Winner 17x7 wrapped on Bridgestone Blizzak WS80 215/45R17 for the winter, hpwever i believe in those wheels the hub circle thing is 64.1, and i think it is smaller on the lexus, so i will shop around for rings.
anyways, pic of the civic:
and before the paint job at the trsck
i was gonna keep the civic stock but a friend introduced me to autoX and track days and little by little the civic si is going to become a dedicated time attack vehicle.
so i needed a daily, got sick and tired of dailying a straight piped lawn mower with two doors, so a friend of mine sold me his 2001 lexus is300 for $2000.00 had 207k miles on chasis and 140ish on motor.
came mostly stock, i believe rotas on the front and nissan 240sx wheels on back with bald tires, i work for Firestone so i put a fresh set of Firehawk AS on the back, Andrew (my friend) will give me the other two rotas later this week and ill keep the nissan wheels as spares (car is missing donut)
i also painted the nissan wheels black because it was bothering me.
Apparently the windshielf washer reservoir is missing because he installed a short ram intake, the AEM filter fell appart in my hands so i got a cheap SPECTER filter in place of it, eventually i may get a reservoir and OEM air box because with winter and salt i rather have a sprayer.
doing a lot of maintenance and very light modification.
fresh brakes all around, pads and rotors, new calipers on rewr, leftover Motul DOT 5.1 fluid that i use in the civic, some cheap slotted drilled rotors that were on the trunk of the car lol, new inner and outer tie rods, new AT pan gasket and switched the ATF Temperature sensor .
Did a drain and fill on the tranny.
few other things that i bought
LED everything. LED dome lights, map, license plate, yellow fog lights, and hyper white cluster bulbs.
i am glad the lug pattern matches the civic so i will be able to put my Maxxim Winner 17x7 wrapped on Bridgestone Blizzak WS80 215/45R17 for the winter, hpwever i believe in those wheels the hub circle thing is 64.1, and i think it is smaller on the lexus, so i will shop around for rings.
anyways, pic of the civic:
and before the paint job at the trsck
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