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  5. project dog....

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    well tha handling is crap at the mo...in the wet, its coming up about .5 inch at the front

     

    That should be safe then.... will you be over my way to get it done.... It'll be great to catch up :thumbsup_anim:

     

     

    i would have to get it done here first, i think the 600mile journey may have some detrimental effect on tyre wear...

     

    Blimey it's any excuse nowadays.... :smile_anim:

     

    fo Sure ill pop in when im next over,

     

    i ended up settling with

     

    225/40-18 on the front ...£80 each

     

    and

     

    255/35-18 on the rear....£97 each

  6. project dog....

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    well tha handling is crap at the mo...in the wet, its coming up about .5 inch at the front

     

    That should be safe then.... will you be over my way to get it done.... It'll be great to catch up :thumbsup_anim:

     

     

    i would have to get it done here first, i think the 600mile journey may have some detrimental effect on tyre wear...

  8. project dog....

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    looking at throwing away the factory headunit...as its crap, well its not its ok, but the cd player is goosed.

     

    so been looking at a few of the kenwood double din units....the most expensive im prepared to get is this one which is £598reason i like the Kenwood ones are that it will match the dash better than some of the more flashy ones with chrome knobs and buttons, plus the backlight colour can be adjusted to match the factory dash orange

     

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    it has Nav, DVD, Bluetooth..Tv, radio.....bla blah blah

     

    but they get cheaper, if i dont have NAV, or BlueTooth, so we shall see, and ive been informed it will power the factory speakers, but not the rear sub, so will have to swap that out aswel.

     

    managed to get a quote to get the glass tinted...£195

     

    so lets see what happens next with this old Dog

  10. project dog....

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    so which , brings me uptodate as it is now.....

     

    anyhoos, got the wheels on today, to see what work would need doing regards any work on the arches....

     

    i had 2 spare 225 tyres so popped them on the rim and stuck em on the car.

     

    front wheel clearance is ...... well they dont rub.

     

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    rear looks a little better.....bigger tyres will be going on the back, what.....not yet decided, and i still have to fit the 25mm spacers

     

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    overall at the moment, the general stance of the car, is spot on......however, it scrapes, on the speed hump into/out off work

     

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    im thinking of sticking with the blue and white wheels for the time being...

     

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    so far the total cost, including the car...has been around £750

  11. project dog....

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    ok so i chucked the Tein coilovers on today whic took it from this

     

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    to this...

     

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    it was a piece of wee to do, in fact it took me just under 90 mins...to have it all done and dusted, ...alot easier than doing the IS200

     

    i still need to get the geo sorted but im giving it a while to settle, but god, it drove like ****

     

    and as for the TEINs...dog****, dont like them, they knock like hell, and the c spanners and locking rings should have been made so they actually work together....

     

    but....the cars lowered, so thats all that matters

  12. project dog....

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    i wasnt going to do anything to this car other than drive it.....but i couldnt let it fall apart, so i traced the coolant leak....

     

    ...i had a constant drip which, i eventually traced to the waterpump-block seal.

     

    so as the water pump had to come off, and i had no history on what was done and when.

     

    i changed the:

    Fan and Viscous fan hub

    Water pump

    Cambelt

    Cambelt tensioner

    Aux belt tensioner

    New Radiator

    Bypass pipe and seals, and most of the coolant pipes, as many had hardened with rust deposits on the insides.

     

    i then found some cheap coilovers...$73

     

    so had to get em...

     

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    and i dug out a new set of wheels i had set aside for the Monster

     

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    i ordered some spacers for the rear...

     

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    and new ARB drop links....i found a company in Australia that makes limited runs of Bars for the GS

     

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  13. project dog....

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    after a long....long time i got round to sorting the car out, (about 18 months) it has sat, unloved in a compound somewhere in wiltshire since June 08.

     

    before returning to ze fatherland i fitted a new exhaust and main cat, front bumper...all thanks to Austin on Lexus Owners Club. and a new battery.....rad cap and numberplate

     

    then fitted 2 new tyres, and got the ball joints done, flew through the MOT, its was insured and taxed and i drove away in my old and abused armchair all the way back to Germany.......it never missed a beat, shortly afterwards i made a trip to the south of France in it...and again, never missed a beat

     

    however on returning to Germany, started having a funny issue.........

  14. project dog....

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    couple of years ago i picked this dog up from manchester...for nowt, it was a dog.

     

    First of all when i got it back to Wiltshire...where i was living at the time....i thought id give it a wash and a clean, i mean, even dogs need a wash....interestingly, i managed to get water into the plugs, so it ran like ****, so much so the cat overheated ( i mean proper overheated, like, the front and mid cat were glowing red hot......)and as a result set fire to some underbody plastic.

     

    not bad for the first day of ownership, ......

     

    Then, i started to look at what needed sorting on the car.... the things that need doing......erm....

     

    get it running on 6 cylinders

    sort the blowing from the exhaust, i think its the front section

    front bumper needs replacing

    headlight washers dont work

    the steering wheel doesnt come out to greet me, tilts up and down though

    radio....hmm its saying SEC on the display, but i cant seem to get it to do anything...

     

    thats was basically it...at first, it has pretty much a full service history,

     

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    after a wash

     

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    then...it had its MOT

     

    well its had its MOT

     

    and its interesting, i have a little bit of work to do....

     

    Exhaust emissions high, ..................well i expected that, the cat is knackered, ive found a new one for 200 quid

    Exhaust front joint leak....................erm, obviously will be sorted with the cat

    Rear tyres need replacing.................i will be replacing all 4 anyway

     

    so those jobs i was expecting.....

     

    these i was not

     

    both front lower ball joints excessive wear...

    offside front brake binding..........................

    front wheel brake imbalance, .....................well thats pretty obvious if a caliper is binding

  23. The "Drifty" Lexus in action

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    the shaft broke at the first BDC event he did i think it was April, it broke because the garage that replaced the shafts, after the car was used in October, by someone else failed to install them correctly, and never fitted the snap rings, which allowed movement, and caused the bearings to collapse,

     

    At the last event he did which was JDM Allstars he finished 9th, i think Jon is driving this weekend at wembly

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