thanks john, just waiting on the powder coater and the weekend now to get them installed....

mikes work is the business man, his mega arms look great and the front control arms he been working on for some other cars look amazing also

 

well, called powder coater this morning like he told me to....items arent ready he said maybe this afternoon. again if they not i will pick them up uncoated, figs is supposed to be sending me 2 more bolts for the rca's since originally he only sent two, hoping those to come today also. its getting closer to getting them on

 

well, got everything back from the powdercoater got the bolts in from mike so everything is set tp go....sucks we getting down poured on but thats what garage's are for. thank god while im at work Chris is working on this for me....

IMHO everything came out great.....some people may not like the color i chose but its my car and im building it how i want it i like it and they color looks even better in person. i really just wanted to show off some color to my fairly dark car.....anyways here are the pics,in the second pic you can see the sides of the RCA's are done also

 

well, everything is installed at a shop getting a alignment. they busy so i wont get it back till tomorrow. everything rides great with all these. i didnt install them so im gonna let chris comment on the install....have pics and stuff just need time for him to work them out.

the only thing we noticed was the tie rods dont seem to thread all the way on like the oem ones....have pics of this also but so far all is good. we'll see how much better i like the red after the alignment

 

looks perdy gangster man! ide prolly get it in teal tho since my brakes are teal

how much did that set you back?

 

this looks amazing

 

ironically i found a UBER cheap powder coater in town....ALL those parts only set me back $85 with tax

thanks....

here are some more pics, have even more of my own just need to upload them also chris has even more including the install pics.

IMHO a great rear shot







yes the red calipers are going away




Chris working on them






and the reason i couldnt really test them

 

I leave for 2 weeks and this is what I miss??? Figs, do you have any tie-rod ends left? I'm also looking for the RCA balljoint spacers

 

nice pieces! great to see someone fabricating parts for the GS. hope to get my hands on some of these parts soon. the full ikeya line-up costs over 4k before shipping. ouch.

 

Brian, did he replace the inner toe link eccentric bolt? It should really be retained and set to the max inward setting. I am not sure a regular bolt will hold alignment here. Also you want it all the way in so that the link is at max length...reduces toe in on compression because its a longer arc length.

 

I will go ahead and chime in since i installed all this........ i had a situation in the rear of his car where the bolts for both the toe link and the rear control arm on the drivers side were completely rusted into the bushing sleeves, so they had to be cut out and could not be re-used..... and since our lovely Lexus dealer is closed on the weekends i had no other choice but to get generic bolts to hold it together.

they are however set to the most inward position to allow the toe link to be as long as possible (the passenger side still retains the eccentric bolts)...... I have left it up to Brian whether or not he wants to replace the generic bolts with the OEM eccentric ones.

All of the parts look great though! The only concern i did have was with the front tie rod ends.... it seems that the tie rod needs a little deeper threads to go on to the rack further, although i do believe there is still enough adjustment in the heim joint end to make up for the lack of inner adjustiblitly, so it may not be a concern (i will talk with Brian once it gets back from alignment to make sure they didnt have any problems getting it in spec)

Overall great looking products though (seems he bought everything that you offer too haha)

I do have more pics that i will get put up hopefully soon to show off the pieces

 

curious... does the RCA comes with new bolts?

 

alignment shop called me a second ago, going to pick it up. he said everything aligned great,im heading to pick it up in a second and he has a printout of the specs for me. i will post the specs when i get back from getting it. im good with the generic bolts as long as the tensile strength of the bolt isnt compromised. i still dunno why our local lexus parts place is closed on the weekend, makes no sense. but i try and use the toyota place on the weekends if i can. i will meet up with you later this week for you to drive it and see how you think it feels. i also had them add some more nitrogen to my tires.....from 30 psi to 35

yes they did vince

 

glad to hear it all lined up good! now i really want some of the mega arms haha!

 

Ah, that sucks Chris. I know the feeling. The hardest part of any install seems to be the removal of stock components

The front tie rod end couplers had the threads swapped so I should be getting the new parts any day now. The thread in of the heim should allow it to get as snug as the stock...at least I measured it to do such.

How is the front wheel clearance on the tie rod ends? pics please?