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Old 10-10-12, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by MastroIS
Ah, I think William's beast may be a pretty close race! lol
His stang vs my car?
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Hey guys sorry no pics for awhile but I'm about to hit you guys hard with all the work I've been doing. ABS and all sorts of goddies so stay tuned this week for a bunch of stuff like 40 to 50 pics XD. Winning.
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Hey, guys just an update I've been working on compressing some pictures to post up almost done. Pics soon.
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Old 11-21-12, 01:30 PM
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Well time for some maintenance. Got some ATF a new transmission filter as well as muh good old dollar hex bit to drain. Don't forget the Double TT or Twin tipped platinum plugs. Got my playing cards over there too.Anyone down for Hold'em? Put her up on the ramps and got it all set up with my stuff laying out. Shouts to the guy with that green mustang for helping me out on some of this stuff. Moves quicker when a buddy helps.
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Pan coming down already drained, ewww look at how nasty that pan is. Then I cleaned it up. Went to drop the filter put in a new one and slapped it back together. Adjusted my kickdown cable to my liking and bam better shifting and more responsive all around. Just better. As always I'm
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dropping the pan doesn't look too hard! long time no see man...
did you change the gasket as well?

also you gotta help me clean my projectors later (i just ordered some hids) finally!
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Get this thing a paint job and youll be good to go
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[QUOTE=gabzor;7624540]dropping the pan doesn't look too hard! long time no see man...
did you change the gasket as well?

I sure did, the filter comes with a rubber gasket.
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Get this thing a paint job and youll be good to go
I'm looking at about 1000 bucks for a paint job won't be lexus like but good enough, fixing all dents and shaving trunk emblems. If I don't get it painted it will be sold off for a sc300 5 speed.
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I did my plugs, which weren't bad but I upgraded to Denso twin tip plats. I know you should run the double tip platinum or whatever but I ran ngk coppers for 10k's no issues what so ever so 10 bucks for one plug? Bite me, I'll go Iridium first. Slapped that stuff in plus the PCV valve I picked up at the Toyota dealership, and I found my cars older sister looks like mine has been on crack while the older sister is still fine as hell . As always Jonny is
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Oh here's a shot of the new plug design vs the NGK Copper Plus Design. Then there is the NGK Laser Dbl Plat/Spark Plug which is direct OEM for our 1mz engine. I'll go Iridium if I start adding Horsepower adders. You can see 10k of beating the hell out of my car with waste spark hasn't really hurt the NGK Coppers much I'll pull the current plugs at 220k for a check. Take it for me any NGK or Denso plug will work fine but if it hurts your car I won't be responsible.
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hmm how long did it take? i need to do it.. hids came today! have no idea how to start pahahahaha
were the iridiums pre gapped?
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Originally Posted by gabzor
hmm how long did it take? i need to do it.. hids came today! have no idea how to start pahahahaha
were the iridiums pre gapped?
I ran double tipped plats bro, from denso. They were pre gaped and were to spec. It only took me an hour maybe a little less but I've changed plugs on this car before.
You'll need to look up a diy to see what all you need, I know you need a 5/8 spark plug socket with the rubber holder inside, a 6 inch extension, a few 3 inchers, and a swivel extension it's not a necessity but helps out. Don't forget you're anti-seize and dielectric grease. I also took my coils apart and sanded all the corroded connections I'd recommend doing this. I didn't change my wires saw no need.

Slap some pics up of that HID install bro!
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So I did my brakes finally, new rotors up front new pads all the way around. I went with an Advanced Auto Rotors and their Weaver Gold ceramics all the way around. Oh I tried a 8.5inch wide bullet with black spokes off my buddies mustang, deep dish looked good. Car stops like you threw an anchor out. Brakes are just now wearing in. I don't have abs yet and I didn't before still working to fix it till this day. It's working but I need to clean up all the sensors, it kicks in at low speeds when braking so I unplugged it I'll put pics of me working on that up too. Those brakes were shot to all heck.
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man if you get the SC that thing will fly.. i drove one with the 1jz in automatic and it was alot faster than any ES haha

just got the hids in!! i will post pics soon, i only have a cellphone camera atm

man i wish i knew how to do brakes -__- and had the tools
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