Resonators removed.

Chopped these out today, sounds much better.
New wheels, springs and brake caliper paint tomorrow.

 

Hey Spider21 I did my badges and the peel coat left a mark around them just used a good wax and the marks disappeared, Lexus have a soft paint to??

 

Can you post a picture of inside the resonator? Never seen one from the see thru view.

 

I think it's all good now.
Got some sun exposure today and it's quite hot here now.
The clear coat has lost the cloudiness and has hardened up.
Whatever solvent softened the clearcoat probably evaporated away thankfully.

 

I can if you really want to see it, can do later.
From what I remember, it was just an inner pipe running through the middle the same size as the small ends of the resonators, and there is fiberglass baffling filled between the inner and outer tubes.
I saw some fiberglass strands coming out of the ends of the resonators.

 

The lighting makes the grey look darker in these pics as it's almost evening.


Car is taking on a new look today after some changes.

 

Spider21, car looks fantastic! Some blue tipped Apexi exhaust would set it off!

 

Looks great Spider21! The wheels are perfect.

 

What decals did you use for the calibers?

 

Spider - Can you post up your wheel and tire specs?

 

blue calipers on that color is so nice man good choice

 

Swapped out the volume and tuner ***** today now everything matches

 

I went with F Sport for the decals.
The wheel and tyre shop made them up from some online images I sent them.

 

Sure.
I'm a complete amateur though and this is the first time I've done anything to a car before.
I used my own judgement from online research.

Wheels are 20" Niche Vincenza in dark tint.
Fronts are 9" with 25 offset, (was tough to decide whether to go 25 or 35, took the risk with 25).
Rears are 10.5" with 30 offset.

Tyres are Pirelli P Zeros 255/30 and 285/30.

Fronts was getting a bit of rubbing on dips, but I noticed it was only on one protruding fender lining bolt, so removed it and it stopped the rubbing after driving the same route again.
No rubbing on full lock.

 

I thought that's what it looked like. I hate to tell you this, but that's a big downgrade on a real F.

Lou