Cuts

As title said I need a pair of these, don't need the globes. My ballasts had to be destroyed to pass compliance. They look like this

I haven't done mine to the Mark X yet (as its not here) but I've done it on a number of other cars (the 205, ek civic, wrx, Chaser and more) Depending on how easy it is to remove things try to get into the plenum as much as possible (open or remove the throttle body) and spray a heap of the stuff in there. Then put it back together and start the car. It will struggle to start but get there. Then after it idles smooth and stops smoking (a couple of minutes) take off a useless vac line, put the little plastic tube into the vac line nipple and fire in some goodness whilst the engine is running. Expect it to run *BLEEP*, use the throttle to keep the revs up and empty the can. Expect a metric buttload of smoke if it's done a few kms, and don't breathe that *BLEEP* in. Biggest smoker I've had was probably the Chaser. It had done 100 000kms, and being turbo was a little more carbon'd up in the plenum.

That looks mint, nice work.

Anyone running roll center adjusters?

Following on from this thread, does anyone have an old DVD they are willing to let me borrow? I simply want to try it in my Mark X to see if it shows aus maps and maybe even english.

Anyone running roll centre adjusters in a is250/is350?

Well progress my good men (and women?) A call to Nuwan reveled that the car is at Vipac now and being tested (will be finished today), then back to the workshop next week for approval in theory, then final approval by transport and I'm home free. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. The hold up has been the Vipac (the company who is doing the emissions testing) had a failure of their testing equipment and halted all shed tests (the only one my car still needed). It took them almost 5 months to fix it. No compensation can be had for the 5 months of my time that was wasted whilst they dicked around fixing it. But it's up and running again and I'm almost free of their uselessness.

Ahh yes, I see those ones on there. Couple of things, the ones they list as a "350" is actually just called "Premium" Anyone can bring a car into the country (as we went through the process of getting them elidgible for SEVS), however the process of complaince is another matter and can only be done by: People who have put a car through the compliance process themselves (ie the guy whos is doing mine) or if someone wants to get a complaince ticket for that car they need to go throug the process we are going through now. What this means is if a car is getting their own complaince expect an additional wait of 5-8 months to get the car on the road (FYI the cost of having a complaince ticket for a car is about $30 000 most of which is the cost of emissions testing) Those prices aren't too bad on that site, as you can see black ones are the most expensive, also look at the grade of the car, most of those seem to be 4A or 4.5A (higher the number the better). If you don't read Japanese (I don't) its best looking into what options are ticked, or asking the importer to get the guy in Japan to find out. Factory options on the 350s is things like: Modellista parts (suspension, wheels, etc) TRD parts (wheels, diff, exhausts, suspension, intake, electrics etc) Moonroof Leather interior (stock interior is "sports cloth", like alcantara with leather bits. Power 6 way Premium seats with heating and cooling (stock ones are 4 way, no heating and cooling) To give you an idea mine is a grade 5AA (top level), 47xxx kms, Modellista suspension, leather interior and the 6 way power seats and the purchase cost was close enough to $19 000 aud. On road as you know expecting late 20's. I've only driven it a few kms but it's awesome, well worth it, just the compliance are killing me. Diffs are all open from the factory, can be optioned with a TRD one like i said, but they're super super rare. I'll probably get one (a torsen centre) from a Chaser, I did an open to torsen conversion on my old jzx100 chaser and it required the torsen side shafts too, not sure if the Mark X will. The diff in the X is the same part number as the SC430 Soarers, and people have put the Chaser/small supra diff centres in them so that's what I'll be going for.

Also the diff is *BLEEP* because they are all open wheelers, something I will be rectifying.

I'll let you know costs once it's all over. My cat had to go and do the final test again. The equipment has become faulty and they don't know when the fault first occurred so they want to retest the lay few cats they did. Putting me back another month at least, in so *BLEEP*ing angry about it, I've already waited liberty than I was supposed to and now it's stretching out further. 10 months I've owned it now. Depending on condition, kms, colour and options don't expect change from 25-28k on road for a decent one. Once the bull*BLEEP* with mine is finished from the time you purchase a car from the auctions in Japan to having it on the road in Aus to be about 2-3 months.

Unfortunately others will lap of the bs that guy pumps out without questioning

A mate of mine has a JZS161 aristo for sale if you're interested.

This a cruise control wheel? pic?

Aside from (I assume) marking in the books that the recall has been done is there any other way of checking? I've heard of putting stickers in certain locations, like on the cam cover, or on the A pillar etc.

Yeah I was surprised, but she was adamant they would. The only recall (as far as I know) is the same as the is350 one, the vvti inlet cam gear and a fuel sensor a year or so earlier.