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Ahoy hoy, I thought I'd better post up an intro thread and tell you guys a little bit about my Aristo. It's not overly stanced but it's getting there.
I picked up the car back in December 2009 and it was already laden with goodies as was previously a project car of Pro-Lex UK. For me this was a good thing for a change as I've got another project going on so I just wanted something that I could use as a daily driver, the last thing I wanted was another project on my hands.
This is what it looked like originally.
When I bought the car it had the following spec;
Make – Toyota
Model – Aristo
Variant – V300 Vertex
Engine – 2JZ-GTE with VVTi
Gearbox – 4 Speed Automatic with Tiptronic
Chassis code – JZS161
Bodywork
Abflug front bumper
Abflug carbon rear diffuser
C-ONE front grill
C-ONE rear spoiler
C-ONE rear window spoiler
Abflug Rear LED lights
Tinted rear windows
Toyota door wind deflectors
Toyota clear side repeaters
Completely debadged
Suspension
TEIN Flex coilovers with EDFC
TOMS 6 link rear suspension links
TOMS front under body chassis brace
C-ONE front strut mount
Brakes
HI-SPEC Monster brake conversion,
6 pot front callipers and 4 pot rear callipers,
Grooved 360mm/14” brake discs all round
Stainless Steel braided brake lines
Wheels
Axis Hiro 19” alloys,
Front – 8.5” wide, 245/35 tyres
Rear – 10.5” wide, 275/30 tyres
Engine
Custom exhaust from first cat back
HKS EVC IV
Large Greddy FMIC and hard pipe kit
HKS induction kit
Abflug carbon cold air box with carbon air scoop
Carbon Spark plug cover
Carbon Fuse box lid
Carbon ECU cover
Interior
Custom air vent 3 Gauge holder, Water temp, Boost and Volt.
Full black leather, with heated front seats
Touch screen Climate control/TV/Sat Nav with 6 disc cd player
JBL amp and speaker system including sub woofer
Since the car has been in my possession there have been very few changes really, I've just been enjoying this wonderful car, though the changes I have made have certainly made a difference to the car.
I've had the roof vinyl wrapped in black which really changed the overall look of the car in my opinion, it's something that really suits the Aristo.
I picked up a nice custom plate for it too and added my favourite decal centre of the windscreen.
I've upped the boost to 1.2bar and had it dyno'd giving me an estimated 420bhp at the flywheel. This was a vast improvement from when I picked up the car as due to binding brakes and lower boost it was originally putting out just 370bhp, so a nice difference there.
Before
After
Then I manage to land a nice magazine feature too in the ill fated Toyota Performance Magazine, centre spread of issue #1 no less.
I've also added an additional gearbox cooler as well to try and help the automatic gearbox cope with the heat.
I've had the centre sections of the exhaust cut out to deepen down the noise and de-restrict it a bit more and release some more ponies. I also have a de-cat ready and waiting to go in too, which should release a few more.
I've dropped the car as far as I can comfortably drop it and still use it as a daily driver, though sadly it will not go up on my drive and I do scrape here there and everywhere, but I like it's current stance.
I've just had the wheels refurbished in black with gold flake and white, which is a bit different but it's now growing on me.
So there it is, the story of my MK2 Aristo so far, it's provided me with 2 years of faultless VIP motoring so far.
There may be a few other things in the pipeline, though I didn't really mean to spend anything on it. Next lot of things to do is get some sideskirts, wire up my water temp gauge, get my brakes rebuilt to get rid of the wobble it's currently got, a little bit of paintwork here and there, some air bags, VIP curtains, new subwoofer....and the list goes on....
Some pictures now with added Junction Produce hanging knot type things in it
And some more images of the wheels and my monster brakes
And a couple more shots
If any of the images don't work then let me know.
Cheers
PJ
I picked up the car back in December 2009 and it was already laden with goodies as was previously a project car of Pro-Lex UK. For me this was a good thing for a change as I've got another project going on so I just wanted something that I could use as a daily driver, the last thing I wanted was another project on my hands.
This is what it looked like originally.
When I bought the car it had the following spec;
Make – Toyota
Model – Aristo
Variant – V300 Vertex
Engine – 2JZ-GTE with VVTi
Gearbox – 4 Speed Automatic with Tiptronic
Chassis code – JZS161
Bodywork
Abflug front bumper
Abflug carbon rear diffuser
C-ONE front grill
C-ONE rear spoiler
C-ONE rear window spoiler
Abflug Rear LED lights
Tinted rear windows
Toyota door wind deflectors
Toyota clear side repeaters
Completely debadged
Suspension
TEIN Flex coilovers with EDFC
TOMS 6 link rear suspension links
TOMS front under body chassis brace
C-ONE front strut mount
Brakes
HI-SPEC Monster brake conversion,
6 pot front callipers and 4 pot rear callipers,
Grooved 360mm/14” brake discs all round
Stainless Steel braided brake lines
Wheels
Axis Hiro 19” alloys,
Front – 8.5” wide, 245/35 tyres
Rear – 10.5” wide, 275/30 tyres
Engine
Custom exhaust from first cat back
HKS EVC IV
Large Greddy FMIC and hard pipe kit
HKS induction kit
Abflug carbon cold air box with carbon air scoop
Carbon Spark plug cover
Carbon Fuse box lid
Carbon ECU cover
Interior
Custom air vent 3 Gauge holder, Water temp, Boost and Volt.
Full black leather, with heated front seats
Touch screen Climate control/TV/Sat Nav with 6 disc cd player
JBL amp and speaker system including sub woofer
Since the car has been in my possession there have been very few changes really, I've just been enjoying this wonderful car, though the changes I have made have certainly made a difference to the car.
I've had the roof vinyl wrapped in black which really changed the overall look of the car in my opinion, it's something that really suits the Aristo.
I picked up a nice custom plate for it too and added my favourite decal centre of the windscreen.
I've upped the boost to 1.2bar and had it dyno'd giving me an estimated 420bhp at the flywheel. This was a vast improvement from when I picked up the car as due to binding brakes and lower boost it was originally putting out just 370bhp, so a nice difference there.
Before
After
Then I manage to land a nice magazine feature too in the ill fated Toyota Performance Magazine, centre spread of issue #1 no less.
I've also added an additional gearbox cooler as well to try and help the automatic gearbox cope with the heat.
I've had the centre sections of the exhaust cut out to deepen down the noise and de-restrict it a bit more and release some more ponies. I also have a de-cat ready and waiting to go in too, which should release a few more.
I've dropped the car as far as I can comfortably drop it and still use it as a daily driver, though sadly it will not go up on my drive and I do scrape here there and everywhere, but I like it's current stance.
I've just had the wheels refurbished in black with gold flake and white, which is a bit different but it's now growing on me.
So there it is, the story of my MK2 Aristo so far, it's provided me with 2 years of faultless VIP motoring so far.
There may be a few other things in the pipeline, though I didn't really mean to spend anything on it. Next lot of things to do is get some sideskirts, wire up my water temp gauge, get my brakes rebuilt to get rid of the wobble it's currently got, a little bit of paintwork here and there, some air bags, VIP curtains, new subwoofer....and the list goes on....
Some pictures now with added Junction Produce hanging knot type things in it
And some more images of the wheels and my monster brakes
And a couple more shots
If any of the images don't work then let me know.
Cheers
PJ
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