Thanks for all the props guys!
As for the shift **** I cant seem to find any TRD ***** anywhere.. I only Have the TRD shift **** for the W58 which wont fit my r154.
It took me about a week of deciding if I wanted to cut the front grill piece out, Havnt looked back since, Love the big in your face FMIC look, Especially in an SC, it throws people off.
As for not seeing me around I purchased the car in the middle of last year and have been slowly getting parts together. Been trying to stay on the down low
But yea SC performance actually did my GTE swap for me. Did a great job too!
Actually they arent really done with it yet. Still got Cam's and cam gears to be installed and redyno'd. Then eventually go single when the twins die off
Thanks again guys! And hope to see more of you Lexus guys at meets!
-Lee

 

Oh and about the pod pillar, Its from a Supra TT. For a Supra TT I mean. It was origanilly black but I had my paint guy sand/dye it until it was a close enouph match to the stock tan interor. Thanks again!
-Lee

 

I like that color a lot

 

I like this vehicle overall...lovin' the FMIC

 

Nice car man!!! Hopefully we can meet up and get some of the local SC's together in one place. I think i saw your car outside Sonny's shop a while ago when it was stock, was there something wrong with one of the rear wheels? i seem to remember a maypop(do-nut) or something on it.
I love the look of the AC kit with the front grill cut out, that was one of the things i didnt like about it, the grill makes it look like an SRT4 to me.

As for your shift **** dilemma, i used to have the Black MKIII in the pic aka paco posted and i had the same problem of not finding a good shift **** for it, the solution i came up with was to go to ACE hardware and find a bolt that threads into the TRD ****, then i cut off the top half of the stock R154 shifter (threads) and welded the bolt onto the top upside down, so i ended up with a shifter that had the correct threads for any aftermarket toyota ****.

P.S. if you haven't already you should get some new shifter bushings from marlin crawler, its cheap and easy but it makes a huge difference!

 

Thanks again guy for the compliments.
And yea we should get together for a local meet! I havnt seen a moded SC in the Carolina's for a while and seems to me im th only boosted SC around my area. And as for the grille being removed, your right. It did make it look like an SRT4 and also looke like a dodge stratus too
But yea this was the car you seen at sonny's shop. I hit some loose gravel taking a turn and banged the curb pretty bad and totally destroyed the rearend. Lexus qouted me right at 6 grande for a new rear end + labor And I told them to shove it. Why would I want to put a stock rearend in it for that much If I could get a supra rear end for sooo much less + get a GTE swap. Funny how things work out lol.
-Lee

 

Will hopefully have updated pics of it this coming weekend when its washed. No more Phone pics!
-Lee

 

u running aem?

 

Nice and clean!!!!

Too conservative for my tastes, but it's still a great looking jam!!

 

man i guess al the sc's in south carolina is in the columbia area.i live in nc but do alot of work in florence and sumter area and i don't see anyone around their.i just realized that paco was on the east coast and not out west.we need to do a nort and south meet.

 

Wow Lee, the car has come a long way since you bought it!!! Looks great, a lot better then my car does right now Keep up the great work and get us some better pictures

 

Turned out very nice Lee!!! Pretty rare color too. Don't see too many teal out there.

 

Very Nice!! Clean!!

Ryan

 

very nice!!

 

LoL Long time no see Matt! We really need to meet up again! Get some photo shoots together an what not.
As for AEM, no im running MAP ECU. Thanks again guys!
-Lee
Promise will have better pics soon!
-Lee