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Turbo should have been a factory option.

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

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.

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OEM Goodness

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

The new quarter panel arrived today for a Supra rebuild. Nice to see Toyota still has these available.

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When every .0001 of an inch counts.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

All of the parts have arrived for our twin turbo LSX project and our bare block is back from the machine shop. Now the task of file fitting the rings and verifying that all of the machine work is in spec begins. Next up we will be using Plastiqage to measure the crank shaft bearings for proper clearance.

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Today we tune an EVO.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

A new AEM Standalone ECU was installed and now it’s time to tune.

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The Supra is one of the few cars that can pull off an automatic trans

Monday, January 30th, 2012

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All for one.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Yesterday 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.

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Enough for two?

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

What do you think? Are we building 2 cars or just 1?

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Good Trade

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Anthony just brought us this S-13 to inspect for him. He recently traded his old AE86 with an SR-20 for this 240 with the same setup. Don’t worry Hachi fans, Anthony has another one he is currently building.

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Our IS300/4G63/T-56 project goes under the knife

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

The quest continues to shed as much weight off our Lexus project as possible. In this episode the trunk section does battle with a Sawzall. In the end the Sawzall won, removing over 32 lbs of excess. Although a lot of the removed sheet metal will be replaced with new lightweight pieces, we will still come out ahead at the final weigh-in.