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Well ladies and gents, here it is. My ongoing build thread for my is300/altezza 
I recently acquired this car from a trade for my bugeye subaru. The date was 10/8/14.
This will be a slow build thread, but it will eventually be done. I am mainly doing this to keep track of the progress of the car, not to try and be famous on a forum.
Specs of the car:
2jzge vvt-i
Factory 5 speed!
180k miles (yeah its a lot!)
BC BR coilovers
Shitty wheels (for now)
My plans:
Keep it original to my flavor! Like I said, I'm not building this to impress anyone, but rather to build the car I have yet to be able to build. I want it to be a sleeper so:
Turbo! Not sure of what brand I want to go with yet but I do have a budget (I am a college student), so any input from experience would be greatly appreciated!
Megasquirt 3 PnP (I am very experienced with megasquirt, thats why I pick it)
LSD! Because everyone loves drugs
Clean it up, re-paint it (I'm thinking Diamond Black from the CTS-V)
New wheels ( I have an idea what I want but they are going to be extremely difficult to find)
Suspension overhaul, this means bushings, arms, sway bars...everything!
Bring the interior back to tip-top shape.
So yeah, those are my basic plans. Feel free to comment, but likely if its **** mail, I'll laugh at it while drinking a beer.
I feel an introduction/first build thread isnt complete without a background of my cars owned, so here they are:
My first real car I built:
Sold that to buy this:
Then bought this:
Then built this thing...and this is the car I traded, it had a built engine pushing somewhere around 350awhp limited by the turbo's capabilities, then 3rd gear popped.
In the mean time between the is300 and last bugeye I got this, which is now for sale:
I did a lot of work to each car, I did not buy any of them in the condition that are showing either, except the last bugeye, minus the engine work. I did all the engine work myself.
That gets us to the is300. A few pictures and then thats the end of this post I promise:
Then I made the tail lights red because I **** the chrome:
Then added a toyota badge after de-badging it, don't mind my friend, hes weird. Hes the owner of the 944 in the background:
Also still need to sand the clear coat on the tail lights and polish them out.
Thats it for now, if you read it I hope you enjoyed. Wheels to come next once I sell the wheels I have for the e30 and then sell the e30.
CHEERS!
I recently acquired this car from a trade for my bugeye subaru. The date was 10/8/14.
This will be a slow build thread, but it will eventually be done. I am mainly doing this to keep track of the progress of the car, not to try and be famous on a forum.
Specs of the car:
2jzge vvt-i
Factory 5 speed!
180k miles (yeah its a lot!)
BC BR coilovers
Shitty wheels (for now)
My plans:
Keep it original to my flavor! Like I said, I'm not building this to impress anyone, but rather to build the car I have yet to be able to build. I want it to be a sleeper so:
Turbo! Not sure of what brand I want to go with yet but I do have a budget (I am a college student), so any input from experience would be greatly appreciated!
Megasquirt 3 PnP (I am very experienced with megasquirt, thats why I pick it)
LSD! Because everyone loves drugs
Clean it up, re-paint it (I'm thinking Diamond Black from the CTS-V)
New wheels ( I have an idea what I want but they are going to be extremely difficult to find)
Suspension overhaul, this means bushings, arms, sway bars...everything!
Bring the interior back to tip-top shape.
So yeah, those are my basic plans. Feel free to comment, but likely if its **** mail, I'll laugh at it while drinking a beer.
I feel an introduction/first build thread isnt complete without a background of my cars owned, so here they are:
My first real car I built:
Sold that to buy this:
Then bought this:
Then built this thing...and this is the car I traded, it had a built engine pushing somewhere around 350awhp limited by the turbo's capabilities, then 3rd gear popped.
In the mean time between the is300 and last bugeye I got this, which is now for sale:
I did a lot of work to each car, I did not buy any of them in the condition that are showing either, except the last bugeye, minus the engine work. I did all the engine work myself.
That gets us to the is300. A few pictures and then thats the end of this post I promise:
Then I made the tail lights red because I **** the chrome:
Then added a toyota badge after de-badging it, don't mind my friend, hes weird. Hes the owner of the 944 in the background:
Also still need to sand the clear coat on the tail lights and polish them out.
Thats it for now, if you read it I hope you enjoyed. Wheels to come next once I sell the wheels I have for the e30 and then sell the e30.
CHEERS!
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