Desiree, the JZX73 Cressida

[Layzorbeemz]

Name's Ben, and this is Desiree.















She's a 1988 Toyota Cressida Executive edition, factory Pearl white that only came on 88's and burgundy leather interior. I have owned her since Febuary 2011, bought from a middle-aged cressida enthusiast who had rebuilt the 5MGE and kept her in extremely good condition.

Currently she is undergoing heart surgery, I'm doing a 1JZ-GTE/R154 swap with a Microtech LT-12S standalone ECU, GT3076R Turbo. She already has Serialnine/Stance D-spec coilovers and some other goodies too. I am shooting for 300WHP to start, may bump it up some more afterwards since I have a 4-500horsepower setup.

The wheel's are Work Euroline NS' From Japan. (F)17x8+25(R)18x9+26 ((If anyone has a pair of Euroline center cap's they wanna sell, let me know!))

I'm running a 30mm bolt on spacer in the front since the negative camber made it look sunken, plus the offset was too high so the wheel's were hitting my coilovers. I bought a pair of 15mm bolt on spacers for the rear so I will be rolling my fenders and making that more flush.

Desiree is best friend's with Larry of DeathSquad.

[sally pu]

this is soo clean welcome to the forums man! love your car! everything about it just works!

[Layzorbeemz]

She has her flaw's like any other project car... but she is beautiful.

[Daviticus]

Yes, good to see another Cressy on S9 shit. Those guys are boss.

Makes me miss my '85 6MGE-T Cressy. I'm following this!

[coconutt]

Yeah!!! Too bad she doesn't have 17's in the rear as well, but if you're going for that look then sobeit. Clean as hell though man...

[Layzorbeemz]

The car has lost it's rake that's shown in a few photo's here, I have New springs for my serialnine coilovers that are 2" shorter, so I'll be tucking 18's in the rear. The Euroline's came in pair's though, they weren't a full set. I managed to make a set of them, the 18's were sooo clean I had to have them. The 17's are much worse in shape.

[Layzorbeemz]

^I'm friggen stoked for this wing to go on, I just imported it with the help of Aleks Efremov of Death Squad^

[244Brick]

Nice, i always ALWAYS loved Cresi's, looks like this one will continue its fate.

[FunfGang]

[Jesus Christ]

God damn dude, looks amazing

[jacbo]

So jelly.

I've wanted an MX73 since I was 15.

[Layzorbeemz]

They're cheap man. go cop one, you can get BC racing coilovers for $1000 and it slams the car, especially on 15's.

[Daviticus]

I wish BC or Stance/S9 were around when I had mine. Had to go all custom baby! But it was a damn fine ride, everyone looks haha.

[Layzorbeemz]

I just get people saying, "do you actually like your car?" I say yes, and they laugh.

Maybe it's because I'm listening to this in the car...



On these

[SD202]

I love my car too ! I can only imagine the peoples faces ! Clean cressy though good work !