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Old 10-06-10, 12:42 PM
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Cool A Clean Mod for You NA Guys...

If you can relate to me you would think that our engines lack a little more "show" than the GTE people. For me I got tired of seeing the mess of lines and the ugly manifold ever time I popped my hood. So I thought up this.





What do you think? Nice OEM look now shared with the IS300s. I will make a DIY sometime this week. It does require dremmeling and fabricating attachment points.
Old 10-06-10, 12:47 PM
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Not too shabby.
Old 10-06-10, 12:49 PM
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I think it looks great! Clean enough to look like its OEM on the SC300's.
Old 10-06-10, 01:20 PM
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Thats off a IS300 did it bolt up ???
Old 10-06-10, 01:23 PM
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Damn, had me confused there for a second. Made me do a double take.
Looks good!
Old 10-06-10, 01:27 PM
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Looks good. Looks better on the VVTI SC300s . It should have came with it.
Old 10-06-10, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by YeA 2jZ
Thats off a IS300 did it bolt up ???
wondering the same thing
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No, if it did it would be too simple.
Old 10-06-10, 02:07 PM
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that is clean i must admit. interested in seeing the extent of work needed to do this
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Something about it just makes it look out of place
Old 10-06-10, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Han7
Something about it just makes it look out of place
the 2 lexus emblems on the engine.. one of them needs to go.. other than that.. looks good..
Old 10-06-10, 03:26 PM
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Not too bad, but it looks like it is partially covering the "24 valve" printed on the valve cover and yeah, the redundant Lexus emblem. Solve those issues and you will have a very clean looking engine bay.
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not my cup of tea but a nice way for people who want to clean up their bay with plastic.
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It looks good, but there's something weird about it. I've already got a gold Lexus emblem on my engine so the chrome and gold would look funny on my SC.
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The cam cover is going to be blackened out. I thought the same thing as well when I finished the install.


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