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Old Oct 25, 2025 | 02:47 PM
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Of all the mods i want to do, tuning would be the final frontier lol. I would rather do the diff swap first, at least no chance of bricking my engine that way
You've maxed exterior and interior design touches and approached that threshold with mechanical embellishments and the diff swap is on the horizon among so many others already installed. The ECU universe really is another world, Captain James Kirk. Been through it some.


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Old Oct 25, 2025 | 10:48 PM
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Install pics from the headers and RR racing lightweight pulleys and a couple videos








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Old Oct 26, 2025 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by np20412
Install pics from the headers and RR racing lightweight pulleys and a couple videos
Nice, indeed! Any shattered glass or USGS (https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards) reports out for that night? BTW did you have the underside professionally detailed? Cleanest I've ever seen.
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Nice, indeed! Any shattered glass or USGS (https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards) reports out for that night? BTW did you have the underside professionally detailed? Cleanest I've ever seen.
Nope I've never washed under the vehicle lol. I think just living in Florida and generally trying to steer clear of rain and mud has helped a lot in this regard lol
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been posting these everywhere lol figured I'd drop them here to continue the journey













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been posting these everywhere lol figured I'd drop them here to continue the journey






Excellent photos of a class build. Let "the journey" continue.
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You've maxed exterior and interior design touches and approached that threshold with mechanical embellishments and the diff swap is on the horizon among so many others already installed. The ECU universe really is another world, Captain James Kirk. Been through it some.
I am having my car tuned this weekend, LOL. A local tuner who has tuned countless F cars and lots of experience on 2UR platform will be unlocking my ECU and mapping a tune to get the most out of my headers and dial in my AFR since the car is running pretty rich.

I am going to try and get a baseline dyno this week, which would be done with PPE Headers, Armytrix exhaust, and stock air filters.

Post tune Dyno would be done with Tom's drop in air filters in addition to Headers + Exhaust.
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Originally Posted by np20412
I am having my car tuned this weekend, LOL. A local tuner who has tuned countless F cars and lots of experience on 2UR platform will be unlocking my ECU and mapping a tune to get the most out of my headers and dial in my AFR since the car is running pretty rich.
This is their first LC?
I am going to try and get a baseline dyno this week, which would be done with PPE Headers, Armytrix exhaust, and stock air filters.

Post tune Dyno would be done with Tom's drop in air filters in addition to Headers + Exhaust.
And The R&R lightweight pulleys



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This is their first LC?
And The R&R lightweight pulleys
Not first LC, but first 2024 so he does not have the maps built and would need to do that since Lexus is sure to have made iterative changes over the years.

The pulleys are for sure there but I did not include because as I understand they don't do anything to increase power, but rather make the already available power more readily usable. .
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Originally Posted by np20412
I am having my car tuned this weekend, LOL.

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Captain, you are entering deep space. Star Fleet requests frequent position reports..
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Dyno day today before the tune this weekend on my 2024. These are numbers with armytrix full exhaust + PPE EL headers on stock air filters. All pulls done in 5th gear and displayed with SAE correction. Run 3 in red was the best of the bunch after 10 minute cool down.




Post tune dyno will be with Tom's filters as well.

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Originally Posted by np20412
Dyno day today before the tune this weekend on my 2024. These are numbers with armytrix full exhaust + PPE EL headers on stock air filters. All pulls done in 5th gear and displayed with SAE correction. Run 3 in red was the best of the bunch after 10 minute cool down.




Post tune dyno will be with Tom's filters as well.
Anticipation has been killing me for results of the experiment into your deep space journey. Any position reports?
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Originally Posted by ratchettt
Anticipation has been killing me for results of the experiment into your deep space journey. Any position reports?
Just a short but incomplete update. We've been having trouble cracking into the ECU. Seems none of the major tuners have had any experience with an ECU beyond year 2022 on an LC, and Lexus has changed it enough that the usual tricks known for prior years and other models have not yet yielded access to the ECU.

We'll be trying again next weekend after getting some more guidance from those who would unlock it if sent directly to them, so hopefully some progress to be had in the next week.

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