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Old Nov 11, 2011 | 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by 1992Lexus
OLT hit it right on the hammer. Its your car and do with as you want. I would mod it all day long. Welcome to the SC world. Love the color.
Yea thats my plan, this is literally my dream car (besides Supra of course) so I plan on keeping it till the wheels fall off or the car becomes unreconizeable due to an accident or horrible fire.



Originally Posted by greens14
Skip the shocks! go straight to coilovers!
I would love too, but I can't pass up this deal on the shocks & struts. I'm getting them off a memeber from here, but I also got a buddy who has an SC400 and he will buy anything off my car, so I can make my money back when I sell them too him to buy some coilovers.
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Old Nov 14, 2011 | 10:29 AM
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sounds like you know what youre doing then
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Old Nov 15, 2011 | 03:25 PM
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Congrats man, looks like the car is a solid platform for sure. Looking forward to seeing some progress.
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 07:54 PM
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Congrats!
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by greens14
sounds like you know what youre doing then
Thank you! It's all thanks to this forum & a few others. I'm a bit of a Herraflush fanboy, but once I'm boosted I'll put some meatier tires and raise it a bit so its more performance capable.

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Congrats man, looks like the car is a solid platform for sure. Looking forward to seeing some progress.
Thanks, just an old Mexican couple that didn't know what they had. Granted it still needs some work, which of course I knew ahead of time. But I know it will all be worth it in the end.

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Congrats!
Thank you thank you! Can't wait too actually start building it once I'm done doing basic maintenance, and watch my car fully progress. It will always be a project in my eyes, I don't think I'll ever truly be finished with it.
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Old Feb 23, 2012 | 12:05 AM
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Hey guys just wanted to give a quick update of how SChelly is doing.

So after I got it, within the first week I did maintenance, and cleaned the headlights with 3M Headlight Restore. Stuff works magic, definitely worth the $30. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of the process, but it does take about an hour and a half.

About a month or so later, I decided to spray my turn indicators yellow with Yellow Krylon Stained Glass Paint, cost about $15 at Michael's. It does the job well, I didn't exactly do to good of a job with prep, but regardless came out well. Few drips here and there, nothing exactly noticeable.

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Then after doing that a couple weeks later I came across a thread where someone painted their '92-'94 tails. Gave me inspiration to do this. I used VANS Red Plastic Spray Paint, got it off eBay for $30.

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Sooo...I drove it around like that for awhile till about the beginning of this month, I bent a whole slew of suspension components when I hit a curb.

Did this to my wheel



My Power Steering Rack



Bent Passenger Strut



So it was time to upgrade a bit. Bought some TT Polished Wheels for $300 (F) 245/40/17 (R) 255/40/17. Shout out to Raffi at Full Race for hooking me up with these!

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Still a lot of positive camber and toe in.



Bent one strut, so why not upgrade all of them? Megan EZ Streets $682.99 dropped shipped to my door from Megan Racing's warehouse.



And I used this DIY to do the coilover install.

http://garage.projectraine.com/conte...ng/spring.html

And here's the finished product. Got her done yesterday.


By toyboxx at 2012-02-22

However SChelly is still undriveable till I get the power steering rack installed with the new tie rod ends

Thanks for looking
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Old Feb 23, 2012 | 05:26 AM
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Nice SC. They look soooo good lowered on Polished TTs
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Old Feb 23, 2012 | 05:57 AM
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Now were talking! Looks completely different with the drop and tt wheels, great Job!
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Old Feb 23, 2012 | 08:40 AM
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Thanks guys

I just ordered a Megan Roof Spoiler

Next to order is SC400 Lip & '97+ Side Skirts & Moldings.
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Old Feb 23, 2012 | 09:00 AM
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Also just ordered Battle Version aluminum power steering rack bushings.
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 01:15 PM
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lol isn't it crazy how high our cars come stock??
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 01:37 PM
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Its ridiculous how high they are stock. I'm just glad I hit a curb which forced me to lower my car and get new wheels, otherwise it would have been forever till I actually lowered it.
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 03:25 PM
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Sweet job! When your ready to do the LS400 BBK up front let me know. I have a nice set of LS400 calipers for sale. Great bang for the buck mod. Might just help you from hitting curbs again! email if interested: draytonwebb@yahoo.com
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Old Feb 25, 2012 | 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Toyboxx
Its ridiculous how high they are stock. I'm just glad I hit a curb which forced me to lower my car and get new wheels, otherwise it would have been forever till I actually lowered it.
Haha love the signature.. always bumping get ya mind right in my sc.. glad to see another young owner I bought mine at 17 and she's burned a good hole in my pocket so far.
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Old Feb 25, 2012 | 12:52 AM
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glad to hear that all is well local! at least you didnt like your previous set of wheels!
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