Project:Soarer by megamax

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2-1-2014

well my insurance check came and luckily I scored a cheap excellent condition pair of headlights from the junkyard. also got a green bumper from the yard but the same car had a dent in the fender I needed. I have a member on club Lexus. that has one, but a pita to ship so keeping my eyes peeled for a oem green one in the mean time. 

and contemplating on doing a tsx high beam conversion on these minty headlights. 

in the meantime I finally received my black box. 

this is basically 2 Honda boxes made into one. hence why a jumper cable is needed. 

and the placement of this will be a challenge?? it comes with Velcro strips. iam prob going to hack up the oem plastic to make it fit. id rather wrap it in some damn plastic costing so much. 

2-27-2014

so nothing much has been going on. some how I uploaded a damn supra map and messed up my pre-loaded 1jz download. i got another map from a member on club lexus. but still won't let me send the map over to the ecu. i really haven't had time to **** around with the aem fully. but hopefully i will get some time after the 9th. and iam going to review all these videos.

anywhoo i ordered a aftermarket ijz intake. i figured since it wasn't that expensive i would take the plunge. 

haven't had a chance to see if the runners match up perfectly or if i need to port them. but other than that it is very light. and has some shavings that needs to be cleaned out. i do like the runners tho. 

apparently in china the work is really cheap.

$25.00 to make, well blow-me-job!!

so next up was a q45 throttle body(or so i thought). after securing one i later found out that it's not a true 90mm.

i think dr. web says it's really 87mm. either way i brought another aftermarket one that you can see the size difference.

the new tb comes with a flange for an exact fit on the mani 

luckily iam going to need that as the original flange bolts don't line up perfectly(just one). 

but spending a couple more bucks is expected with this kind of stuff and not really a big deal imo. 

i was shocked to see the premium that q45 tb's bring nowadays. they didn't used to go for 100.00.

and finally i got ready to get some good head!!!

got these puppies to service my leaky valve stem seals. just going to remove the head and maybe get a head job(leaning towards it). and finish up the mods with some 264 bc cams. 

what about the fuel you say?? well i already got a top feed rail and these babies. 

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