The IS300 is a great car, but low on power in stock form. This one has had a Swift Racing Technologies turbo kit installed with a Haltech Sprint 500 ECU. We conservatively tuned the Lexus for longevity on pump gas at 16 psi and it is putting out 436 WHP. Now it’s ready for the streets.
Turbo should have been a factory option.
Friday, February 3rd, 2012The Supra is one of the few cars that can pull off an automatic trans
Monday, January 30th, 2012All for one.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Yesterday if you guessed twin turbo V8, you’d be right! We are still working closely with the customer on this setup so a lot of the supporting goodies have not been finalized yet. Watch for updates as this project develops. 
LS1 IS300 gets headers, exhaust and tune
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Since no one makes 1 7/8″ headers for an LS1 IS300, we had to take matters into our own hands and make some. The passenger side header was pretty straight forward. Meanwhile, the driver side header had to wrap around the steering rack. After making sure the headers fit perfectly, the exhaust was fabricated. We used twin 3″ pipes going to an x-pipe and then through magnaflow cans. The muffler selection was made to keep the car a little bit quiet, but so the engine will still be heard over the spinning tires. After the mufflers the exhaust dumps just past the rear axle. The car was then put on the dyno and made a healthy 414 whp, and 378 ftlbs of torque. That is an improvement of 21whp over the old manifold/exhaust setup.
IS300 Clear To Drift pictures
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Here are some action shots from the Clear To Drift event last weekend. The car did well and the only issue was the mazda3 power steering pump not working, due to data turn on signal. Our shop 350z even made an appearance, but I have no pictures of that at this time. Now the car is back at the shop so we can complete this project with no huge rush. That means proper headers and exhaust, as well as making the engine bay not look like a 5 year old wired up the car.
LS1 Is300 runs
Friday, June 17th, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLvUmmCxxjE
I will keep this blog short and sweet. Last night the LS1 IS300 started for the first time. It has been a long week, and it is still not over. This video makes the hard work worth it. Today there still is a good amount of work left; like tuning and brakes.
Drift IS300 update
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
We got some work done on theLS1 IS300 over the past few days. As you can see, some parts of the car are rough around the edges. After this event, this car will get finished with everything done do our high standards. Currently there is just not enough time for us to work on this car nonstop, as well as not enough time to finish everything. The harness is almost finished being installed. The exhaust needs to be made, the brake lines need to be finished, as well as a bunch of other little things.
ls1 – IS300
Monday, June 13th, 2011
This weekend a car got dropped up at the shop that needs to be finished for an event on the 18th of this month. If you haven’t realized, that is only 5 days for us to have this car finished. Fortunately the engine and transmission are in the car, but that is the easy part. Since then, we got the engine harness 90% finished. The picture of the random wires is everything that was removed from the harness that is not needed. We will update our blog with the progress on this car.
S13 dyno
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Here we have an s13 with a built sr20det with a 30r turbo. It came to the shop to get tuned, but rarely do cars just need to be tuned. This car only had 1 slight mechanical issue, the mechanical timing was off 1 tooth. After that was fixed, it was time to see what she could do. It put out a nice 362whp. The car does have a few restrictions, but overall it is a healthy machine.
EVO bov and ignition upgrades
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Here is an Evo that came into the shop on the stock weak ignition system as well as a weak blow off valve. We then proceeded to swap the ignition system with a Buschur coil on plug setup with cdi. The stock bov got replaced with a Tial 50mm unit. Unfortunately today I do not have any fancy dyno numbers to prove what this setup did, but I will have them shortly. Both of these items do not make more power on their own, but they have the ability to let the car run more boost without issues, resulting in more power.
