Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 37 – Refueling the Fuel Cell
We originally installed the Radium fuel cell in Project SC300 back in 2015! That’s like… a decade, man. By the book, you are supposed to replace the foam in the…
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 36 – I Can’t Stop (Enough)
Project SC300 ain’t dead. It’s just taking a bit of a vacation. Those who know me more personally understand that there was a rough few years of family-related issues of…
Sikky Lexus IS-F Swaybars
Since we last worked on the suspension of our IS-F project, we noted that Sikky Manufacturing, our rear sway bar manufacturer, had since come out with a new adjustable front…
Fixing Rapid Front Tire Wear on the Lexus IS with Figs Engineering
If you own a second or third-generation Lexus IS, RC, RC-F, or the IS-F, you are probably familiar with their problem of severe front tire wear. It is especially bad…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 35 – The Wang Gang is Splitting Up
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 35 – The Wang Gang is Splitting Up by Erik Jacobs It’s been a little while since I last penned (typed?) a Project SC300 update.…
Project IS-F gets an Amazing Facelift with Wicked Auto Detailing
Even though we take pretty good care of Project IS-F, it is a daily driver and 10 years of daily driving had taken a toll on its looks. The Lexas…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 34 – Cameras are rolling, copy that.
Life has gotten complicated, and, unfortunately, that has meant that Project SC300 has been sitting around for nearly a year. I reached a point, though, where I couldn’t take it…
WATCH: Our Lexus IS-F Gets a Koyo Radiator and B&M Transmission Cooler!
Our Project Lexus IS-F has been a great high performance daily driver for more than 10 years already but like all cars that are getting older, things break! Our…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 33 – A quick, dry break with Radium Engineering
While you haven’t heard from Project SC300 in a minute, it hasn’t been entirely idle. We took the car out to Carolina Motorsports Park last November for some additional testing…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 32- Getting sequentially better with S1
The W58 transmission that comes behind the 2JZ in the Z30-chassis SC300 is not known for ruggedness. In the first outing with the new wiring, I grenaded 3rd gear quite…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 31 – ECM(easure all the things!)
COVID-19 has impacted everyone, and the motorsports community has been no exception. For a while there, everything was shut down. It didn’t matter if you drove in circles, or made…
Project IS-F, Restoring the Factory Brembo Calipers with West Coast Calipers
Project IS-F is a daily driver. It is garaged and well taken care of but it is subjected to daily use and is parked outside during the day. One day…
XE20 Lexus IS-F, IS Adjustable Front Sway Bar Hack
Our Project Lexus IS-F has never gotten a performance front swaybar even though it has a larger adjustable Sikky Manufacturing rear anti swaybar. The main reason is no one makes…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 30 – Sometimes You Finish Where You Should’ve Started
When we left Project SC300, we had gotten the suspension all back together, but that annoying caged nut had thrown us for a loop. Properly getting to it involves getting…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 29 – You’re in Figs Army now.
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 29 – You’re in Figs Army now. by Erik Jacobs Well, it’s been another few months, and I still haven’t driven the SC300. So, why…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 28 – Getting Safer with Sabelt
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 28 – Getting Safer with Sabelt by Erik Jacobs Earlier in the year I had gotten all new safety equipment and detailed the journey to…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 27 – Joining a Wang Gang
It’s not every day that you get to join a gang. No, really, I mean, they usually have rituals and rites of passage or you have to commit heinous acts…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 26 – It’s Getting Hot in Here, so Chillout!
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 26 – It’s Getting Hot in Here, so Chillout! When we left the SC300 we had the body kit completely installed and then were off…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 25 – WIDEST IS BESTEST!
When we left the SC300 just about the entire KBD body kit was installed. Now we’re in the home stretch! Rear quarters, side skirts and done, right? I hope so.…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 24 – Wider-er is better-er!
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 24 – Wider-er is better-er! by Erik Jacobs When we left the SC300 I was throwing up in my mouth watching large chunks of the…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 23 – Wider is better! Getting Clearance with a Wide Body Kit.
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 23 – Wider is better! by Erik Jacobs We had brakes, we had suspension, we had refreshed hubs, and we had a scary, twitchy car…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 22 – I Missed Winter…
When we last left Project SC300 things had gone totally sideways and now the entire suspension of the car was all apart. With a box of Toyota/Lexus OEM replacement components…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 21 – Winter is Coming
When we last left Project SC300 we had just installed our Grannas Racing T56 transmission swap kit and had gotten back out on track. With a solid drivetrain, it was…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 20 – Getting Shift Done
When we last left Project SC300 we had figured out just how much we could drop the motor, and cleaned up the transmission tunnel to accommodate the shifter. Now it…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 19 – Achieving Release, Mounting Problems
In the last installment of Project SC300 we had just attempted to bolt on the Quick Time 2JZ-T56 adapter bellhousing to the engine. After some careful massaging of the transmission…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 18 – We have transmission!
Our last outing with Project SC300 did not leave us all that happy. After much hard work completely rewiring the car, fabricating lots of odds and ends, and countless hours…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 17 – Get out there! Or not…
With the car idling and most of the core sensors configured, we needed to keep moving forward in our electronics configuration in order to get to a point where we…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 16 – We have ignition!
In the last segment, we said that we had finished wiring everything, but that’s not quite true. There were just a couple of finishing touches to sort through and then…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 15 – Lay it all out
With the engine bay wiring all neatly tucked in, it was time to move on to the rest of the car. We bounced around here and there as it made…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 14 – Install it all, y’all
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 14 – Install it all, y'all by Erik Jacobs When we last left Project SC300, we had finished preparing all of the harnesses and…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 13 – Updating for Proper Fire Safety
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 13 – Updating for Proper Fire Safety by Erik Jacobs Since we were starting to button up our Project SC300, it seemed logical to attack…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 12 – Cabin Fever
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 12 – Cabin Fever by Erik Jacobs The trunk harness was complete. The engine bay harness work and modifications were complete. Now it was time…