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im hopefully going to see a couple local to me this weekend i have found a really nice example 350z GT in gunmetal on an 04 with just over 20k on the clock with satnav etc but im just not so sure on gun-metal yet.... the other is a blue one done just under 30k without sat nav etc but the gt pack.... decisions decisions where do you lot get your insurance from as im with flux on the lex and they just quoted 2k im only payin 1100 on the lex so go figure that out in particular where do people insure the charged versions just in case i do that lol

Now there is a plan lol

160 as standard I was being restricted on my build due to part of the exhaust being to small the kit has been proven to run 330bhp on standard internals I do have a complete forged short motor here good for 500+bhp but I fancied a change after I got the block lol so I'm here to buy my new to lol

ok so by the end of day 2 we looked like this Day 3 well it all went a bit to well in the past 2 days so i was expecting a problem today but alas no such problems we now have the computer up and running in the boot along with HD Radio through Fully running Sat Nav Via 3rd party software and a Global sat BU-353 Windows updated (not sure this is a good thing) USB Relay box relocated and rewired to control (strobe Lights, Strobe Light Sequence change, Intercoller Lights, Remote Amp ON feed, Boot install Lights, front camera Power on) dash board was then fully re installed Reverse camera rewired to activate on the trigger feed, this now automaticly switches the HKS Camp 2 off and camera feed on. oh i forgot i also tidied up my boot install some of you will recognise it....

then over the easter break i did something very daring I started to re-wire the lexus, i have started inside the car tidying up all the aftermarket items i ahve installed along with the CAR pc full configuration Stage one was to remove the dash to show me the scope of the challenge ahead of me.... Stage two was to remove as much wiring that i could carefully to allow it to be re-installed No pics of this stage as there wasn't much that i could just chop out lol Stage 3 Start the the rewire... As you can see form the passeneger side its a improvement so far but that was starting at 9am and finishing at 7pm:Chair: Plan for tomorrow get all the alarm system tidied up attempt at fitting the Turbo Timer again as i have another plan for this.... Rabs

OK so few more bits fitted B&M short Shifter Illuminated Sill Lights Here are some pics from a photo shoot with a guy from work one morning

Few more bits done today Painted rear drums in smooth black to get rid of the paint flake and rust flakes lol Tidied up a bit of wiring under the dash still tons there fitted remote folding mirrors upon car unlocking (everyone else it on car locking) i got both ner ner Collected my package from Fedex they carded me when i was sitting in the front room so pretty sure they didn't knock.... Clean the car morrow i think inside and out....

Here we go i picked up a Push button and proximity entrance kit there will be a group buy for the complete system or parts of it OK so we start of with the System i removed all the wires that i didnt need from the proximity circuit that left me with a total of 7 Cables to terminate as shown below i then moved on to narrowing these down for install purpose due to the fcat i have a after-market alarm on the car it makes it interesting to install. With a after-market alarm i need to be able to activate and de active the alarm in doing so this will unlock the doors and turn off the immobiliser. so my way of doing this was to mimic the operation of the lock and unlock on a G5 remote i disabled all other buttons PERMANENTLY and here is the result of that so once i had tested this by shorting the 2 wires together the car locked and unlocked accordingly. now with this in mind i worked out the best way to take the lock and unlock signals from the proximity unit and have them bboth trigger the clifford alarm. THis was done by taking a relay adding 2 diodes to one side of the coil then the lock wire went to one diode the Unlock wire went to the other give a constant 12v to the other side of the coil on the relay. in doing this it stopped the circuit getting any feedback into the main Brain whilst allowing both Lock and unlock to trigger the same switch. i then made this a little neater and dressed the cables so now onto the fitting of the unit Rear mounted antenna position Front mounted antenna Position I also put the by pass unit in here as well so everything is nice and hidden i ran the cables from the front to the rear of the car under the carpet as shown here Once all the cables were routed through it was time to connect up all the connections you need are located by the steering column Constant 12v (red) 18AWG ACC 12v (Small Red) 18AWG Ground (Black) 22AWG to trigger the lock and unlock Lock (Green) 18AWG unlock (Blue) 18AWG

OK well this is following on from the group buy here As discussed a lot of you would like to see this system in the flesh and know how easy it is to install, so i went ahead and got 2 kits, to be experimented on 2 different types of set ups So here is the good news they are here in my flat ready to rock and roll If i get a chance this weekend i will get the push start part of the system installed so you can all see that running the proximity bit needs a bit of research as i have an after market alarm. If i can however Fit this into mine then all those with After market alarms on any vehicle will be able to do the same. I will do a full write up and picture install thread on this kit once it has been evaluated.

ok so we now have another section of my project completed see details below, there are not alot of pictures of the production stage but mainly the finished article. so anyway 1st things 1st i had to but another screen, after having a liliput screen in my nav housing which seemed to perform wonderfully i hunted for the smae model again. liliput 619gl i then attacked this to make it fit inside the standard IS200 Fascia adaptor alot of you are familiar with The walk through HERE the same principal applies except i cut the existing screen housing apart to make it fit inside the hole i then used Hurricane & plastic filler to smooth it all followed by primer and paint So yeah umm here is the finished article in the car shortly after this i took the pc back out the car to do some work mainly software based but as its been slow due to weather lately Main thing was to: - install a Relay board Driver Windows Updates Adjust PSU boot times etc (carnetix PSU2410) adjusted by pc software Customize background of software attempt to fix satnav problem... well out of all the above the Sat nav is still outstanding, don't think that's to bad considering lol Lets start with the background this is done via a Hack in centrafuse once installed you can place pictures into the images directory and either have them rotate through each time it boost or lock it to a image. i chose a pic of my car which has been customized So here is before pic after so with this installed i then moved onto the Realy board, the whole reason for this is im running out of places to install switches lol , this particular board runs on USB with a 12v input and can switch 12v via relays so i have assigned 4 circuits to start with Circuit 1 - Inter cooler Circuit 2 - Strobe Lights Circuit 3 - Front Camera Circuit 4 - Audio Amps. the software has been developed to work as a hack so once installed will automaticly install the relevant task area and buttons on the Centrafuse front End Labelled up circuits ok only 2 labelled but you get the idea here is the board in test status on my Living room floor as you can see LED2 is illuminated this means that the Relay is now in the Normally open position closing the circuit thus giving me a 12v output on that switch when you press a button on the touch screen the button illuminates green to indicate its operation the board can be set with 2 system syetem one to allow toggle press (so it flashes the output upon being pressed non latching) or System two Latched output (a single press on the circuit will latch the output and stays latched until pressed again) Hope you like what you see Rabs

My Update Well as some of you will have seen i sold my supercharger and a few other bits from beloved car this was to fund a new project. As i am sure some of you have seen now Bandit has got his old car back this is because i bought the car for the turbo kit that was on there and did chris a deal for his old car to which he has started a new thread :thumbup::thumbup::w00t::w00t: So to sum up i have a turbo kit fitted to my car producing 282bhp So parts on the car are Big intercooler IKE engineering Turbo Manifold Ike Enginering Down Pipe 3†IKE Engineering Centre Pipe AEM FIC (fuel and Ignition Controller) 550cc Injectors Supra Fuel Pump Stainless stel fuel Lines with Aeroquip fittings GT30 Roller bearing Turbo Tial Waste gate 50mm 100mm Custom Induction with Apexi Filter Custom Intercooler Piping 60mm UPrated Helix Clutch Apexi Back Box Iridium 7 Spark Plugs Standard Fuel Regulator

As you read above I had temporary car PC using my sony Vaio so now is time for a proper job One pc One GRS Receiver One Cd Player One OBD2 Reader One Ipod One AV Input The pc uses a program Called Centrafuse here is the front end You will have also read a bit further back in this thread about my arches being rolled well that was in preparation for the new wheels so we went from these To These Also spent the weekend washing and detailing mine and a mates car

I was happy until I tried driving and looking at the gauges then realised they were to low down so time for a rethink Now the is200 comes in a navigator model as well but the sat nav is out of the arc luckily I didn’t have it in mine I so I thought why I don’t put a touch screen in the standard housing so I got to work Part a Part b Take them all apart have a juggle with the wiring and you get So on to Fitting in the car Here we have it working Did I mention it was toucscreen so I also have an INCAR pc well my laptop in the glove box at meets lol!!!

I was happy until I tried driving and looking at the gauges then realised they were to low down so time for a rethink Now the is200 comes in a navigator model as well but the sat nav is out of the arc luckily I didn’t have it in mine I so I thought why I don’t put a touch screen in the standard housing so I got to work Part a Part b Take them all apart have a juggle with the wiring and you get So on to Fitting in the car Here we have it working Did I mention it was toucscreen so I also have an INCAR pc well my laptop in the glove box at meets lol!!!

Whilst the bumper was off I fitted some LED's to the grill to light the intercooler at some of our car meets (only at meets) Whilst in the process I changed my side lights to LED sidelight strips I also Fitted 6400k HID I did wire these in non standard they basicly take a trigger from the normal light circuit to activate a relay which draws power direct from the battery this = no dips when cranking. You can buy these relay kits buy my thoughts why buy when you can make!! So now that I had the bigger cooler the bigger exhaust I then realised I had no way of telling what it was doing pressure wise etc, now most people have gauges on the A pillar in the Is200 or then have them mounted in the centre console. Now me being me wanted to be different I wanted the best of both worlds gauges in the middle but stealthy, so I hunted until I came across the HKS Camp 2 System very cool It arrived like this Doesn’t look like much but a pain to wire in but how wrong was I… So all working and here is the kiddy

I then had an accident when parking and kerbed the passenger Rear wheel not happy, then had a brain wave my mates BMW had reverse dip mirrors I wonder if I can get that on mine of course Lexus were no help so off I went and found my own way So here we have a box of tricks Universal as long as they have the up down function lol Fitting was not easy Now as you read above I fitted a rear camera so why not a front one I thought so I did By this time I was starting to run out of little things to do, so had a long hard think and realised a bigger intercooler was needed This big As you can see the standard TTE one is the baby thing underneath

Then for a little bit of time I didn’t do anything was not to well etc JAE came and went where we fitted a supercharger to a friend’s car made me want 1 like crazy, so 2k later I had one Standard engine bay Full engine Bay Car didn’t seem to have enough noise and grunt so I upgraded the filter to a K&N and gave it a full on service and it found its balls once again But there was something holding it back……………………… ahh yes the exhaust plain standard nothing special so a friend sold me his Blue flame it arrived like this Went on the car like this So old exhaust off New exhaust Ready NO expense spared even on the bubble wrap lol

then I noticed that only the drivers window had 1 touch I couldn’t be doing with this time for total closure and one touch system I had a few DEI 530 box's left over from a few previous cars so these were redesigned and put to use however Lexus wiring is a pain so had to put wires into each door LONG so anyway these box's also offering a venting system via a remote or button in the car etc very good in hot weather... This now gets us to a few more bits of fun we all hate little bollards when parking or finding some one has got right up close behind the car so I thought its time for a rear view camera but stealthy I then needed some new tyres so whilst the wheels were off the car and it was jacked up (thought id get them refurbed at the same time I painted the callipers So from this To this Spare wheel was dirty im ashamed to say lol

Hey everyone thought I would share my car with everyone else see what people think Ok here is the progress so far, I got the car in late 06 and said that I would not touch it I liked it just the way it was I mean it was the IS200 Sport in Scarlatti red with the Lexus styling kit standard Lexus alloys premium sound system etc. Alas this didn’t last long 1st thing I had to change the radio so after much hunting around I chose the Kenwood DDX-6029 and got to fitting as some of you might know the sport comes with its own amp and runs a digital system in the car so no left and right feed to the amp but digital signals very annoying So after much playing about I made a bypass lead (there wasn’t one on the market when I got the car but there is now ) However I missed the bass that I had in my old car so out came the standard speakers and Infinity's went in along with an Alpine V12 and Lanzer Vibe Amp As you can guess it didn’t stop there, I found my self addicted to putting bits on, so the fun and games started Mirror closing module was created and fitted Then Hands free Kit ck3200 Then LED Foot well lights Varad RGB

where is the best place to chuck my car build up on here

woohoo lol i was contemplating spaming it with my entire lexus build thread to show people just how in depth i go when tastefully modifying my cars lol but though that might be frowned upon lol

im guessing i have to have a certain number of posts or similar to Pm members on the club ?

hey guys thanks for the warm welcome

im actually looking at spending upto 10k on the Zed as i have a few plans for it im terrible for impulse buying things probably be the 1st one i go see ill buy lol

cheers guys im already hunting im just torn as to what color, i know of a nice one up for sale at about 10k in gunmetal grey but as you can see from the previous car i like to stand out lol the blue is starting to grow on me though....