Toyota Altezza/Lexus Is200 DRIFT Car.

[Ryan1985]

You really seem to know what you are doing there mate, wish I knew alot about cars!

Can't wait to see it finished!

[Monster-Mat]

so anyway........ive started on the new colour

Front....headlight openings, and slam panel

Rear, including in the trunk area

Door shuts

Rear with bumper on

Starting to Mask up, areas not to be painted.....rear

Roof, masked up

Bonnet, and rear glass masked up

Bonnet masked up

Modified trunk area, showing area where spare wheel well was.

Cusco rear anti roll bar and japsai brace

spare wheel well....again, showing custom exhaust, and hanger arangement

[Monster-Mat]

Under the bonnet

i intend to relocate the filter tommorow, and the oil catch tank.....

now ive remodeled the rear end i need to re-mount the rear kitty litter recovery point

and im gonna modify my Japsai to sit a little Higher

[Monster-Mat]

so ive been doing a few more bits....and bobs

first thing to sort was My Japsai, it was very close to the ground, those that have a Japsai will know that they sometimes catch on speed bumps, well imagine how much my Japsai caught.

i have re-designed my red Japsai, and come out with the clearence freindly Japsai....To be known as Silver Japsai

also another major thing that needed sorting was the relocation of the rear towing eye, the original race car one was mounted at the bottom of the spare wheel well.......Well as there is no spare wheel well it had to be mounted elsewhere.

Last but not least, the previous Cold air induction, was mounted in an Aluminum airbox, where the ECU used to be, i wasnt happy, so ive continued the trunking into the wheel arch, and mounted the filter there, i will make a new cold air box under the arch, this also alowed me to relocate the Oil catch tank slightly better.

[Monster-Mat]

ok......here she is

Front 3/4

Front 3/4 lower down

Full frontal

Blue Bum

side order

Red is for STOP!!!

Home Alone 1

Home Alone II

Home Alone III

[kimi]

Nice one Matt

looks like you've been busy,glad the floor idea worked out as you had planned.

[jerry phipps]

hey that is looking great mate. Nice colour as well. So how much in body weight do you reckon you have ditched?

jerry!!

[Monster-Mat]

i think around the 400kg mark.....but i am aiming to loose more, for the intrim the doors will be lightened till i can afford the carbon doors, and bonnet, bootlid..

then theres the use of more Aluminum and Carbon, again when money allows.

hoping to shortly ditch the 1g engine in favor of a 3s-gte

[DazH]

Work of art mate

[houston]

wow, thats all i can say without the swear filter kicking in!

that is awesome, you must be very happy with yourself? wish i had the balls to even attempt summit like that, let alone succeed.

[Monster-Mat]

Re did the grill the orange on it didnt seem rite..........

The Painted Grill

Who needs fancy Sill plates

The Go Go Area

The Car on the Trailer........waiting to Come home

erm......A view down onto the bonnet

i Have possibly sourced a 1JZ-GTE aswell in Holland...........fingers crossed

[alanbradley]

That is unbelieveably cool! I agree with you about the grille - it looked a bit too mauch like lipstick. The black is so much better

A

[kimi]

That does look better black, wasnt that keen on the orange

reminded me of that rover thingy

[Monster-Mat]

well ive not been able to fit the calipers and discs for 3 main reasons......

LS400 Calipers.........and Supra Discs

1. 3 of the rubber dust boots are missing

2. The Brake pads from Mintex have only Just arrived with Mr Prolex UK

3. I can't find the jack, i have a sneaky feeling its in the UK with all my other workshop eqpt

anyway, today unloaded it back of the trailer to take it for a run......

also fitted a few more decals....

took some more pics aswell.......i know, i know....but i really like it in its new colour.

pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

Pic 4

Pic 5

Pic 6

The rest can be found here...............CLICK

There are possibly some quite exciting developments soon......

255 hp 3s-gte

[knightrider]

nice, work looks good i liked it before and wel i love it now

just a few questions though

why is the exhaust mounted where it is?

and couldnt you find a better way to blank off the other exhaust cut out,

oh btw love the ideas of relocating, hireing etc.

[Monster-Mat]

ok...exhaust, exiting where it does, actually reduces the exaust length by 4 inches, thereby saving some weight could also say it helps with weight distribution, ground clearence...blah blah blah, which is all true, but i wanted to do something different, i kinda always liked the 80-90's Alfas, they had off centre exiting exhausts.

the other exit will be eventually covered with a skirt......however the car is built for function rather than form, so its allowed to look a little tatty around the edges

[Monster-Mat]

Also fitted the MINES LCD exhaust gas temp meter,twas got from starletsy more so for future developments, rather than current requirements.

MINES LCD control unit

MINES LCD display

[Jesus]

Awesome mate.

Well impressed with it all.

[Monster-Mat]

thanks.....

i am currently intalks to get a last generation 3s-gte (255) with loom and ECU

once this is in place, the HP problems will be truely sorted, with a far bigger scope for tuning.

the new TRD lsd is on its way over from Japan at the moment, the Cusco upper wishbones should be arriving tommorow from Japan.......

[gordypix]

Very very nice Matt feeling that car indeed

and those mirrors are so dinky................

[G6AArgh]

VERY VERY VERY tidy looking track car and you def seem to know your stuff (wish i did) as far as competition use goes have you thought about doing a few hillclimbs in that? it looks like it would be very competitive being so light.

[Monster-Mat]

Hill climbing is a possibilty....but not untill the 3s-gte is plopped in

[Monster-Mat]

well 6 months later.......time for an update me thinks.....

well over the summer months i was out doing the "drifting melarky"

Silverstone

[Monster-Mat]

but it soon became clear that more power was needed, originally i was gonna fit a 3s-gte, but there were 2 many problems with the swap, so found a nic crashed altezza......and robbed a few bits

some wires and stuff

and Engine, and spare gearbox

which came with a TRD flywheel...........but not gonna be used :)

[Monster-Mat]

while the search for the right bits were carrying on........Ebay is wonderfull.

i made use of much practice time

and made a massive improement in skill over the summer