My IS300 story so far....
My IS300 story so far....
sounds good mate
OK so the most recent update could either be a a 10 page essay on how f**ked off I am with how absolutely nothing has gone according to plan this week. How it took me 6 hrs to trim the bumper to size. How I blew the most expensive fuse in the car. How its been p155ing it down NON STOP whenever I've been out there working on the car. How the injectors I was sent are incorrect.
Or I could just show you some pics...
Intercooler and all piping fitted. It took a LOT of time to get it right. Especially cutting the hole behind the headlight for the piping to pass through. Even with a titanium tipped circular saw I still got through 3 of them (and burned out my drill!).
I need to find a suitable place for the Power Steering cooler now though. Either that or buy a small cooler and replace it.
This was the first stage of cutting the bumper (taking out the mesh). After that I realised I needed to trim away a LOT of bumper (30 attempts) and also remove the headlight washers and the washer tank in order for it to fit.
keep up the good work jim
Cheers boys.
Well I just did a quick bodge up on my blown fuse by soldering some really heavy gauge wire across the blown pins.
...and I took her out for a drive!!!
Bearing in mind that she is running without any injectors or any tuning which means I had to go real easy on her (kept it below 4krpm), I can definitely feel a big difference in power.
Pulling out of turnings with just a bit of throttle, it felt more like I was driving my old mans 350z :p
The noise is phenomenal. Up to about 3k rpm all you can hear is the charger whine, but after that the whooshing takes over
I think the stock ECU is having a hard time working out WTF is happening because its flipping from a little bit lean to massively rich according to my wideband/
Couple more pics (and I'll get a vid up soon).
Marsdendean How come a IS200 can run the charger just using a FCD and an IS300 can't?
Marsdendean How come a IS200 can run the charger just using a FCD and an IS300 can't?
Marsdendean Quite a good increase then, and made even better by an Auto box!!
Marsdendean Quite a good increase then, and made even better by an Auto box!!
May i HIGHLY recommend one of these bad boys!
http://www.racelogic.co.uk/index.php/en/...on-control