1991 UCF10 6 Speed Manual Lexus LS400 (The Japanese Merc)

Well if my Microsoft paint picture wasn’t good enough the filter turned up today. Fits bang on, just gotta wait for the edging strip to turn up and ill chuck it all on.






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Neat job that 👍

Decided the factory air intake pipe needed rectifying because there’s a big dampener attached to the left hand rocker cover that dampens sound (no good when you’ve just fitted a cone bad lad).



Decided to chop the box off to make it easier to replicate 🤙🏻



Then took the plastic pipe to my mate naths and he made me a new pipe (just waiting on some 16mm and 6mm pipe to have the nipples welded on). Made do with one piece of 3” intercooler pipe hence the pie cuts (didn’t wanna be wasteful).



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My ally pipe I’d been waiting for finally turned up today 🤙🏻 So back down to Nath @ ND auto repairs and he finished the job off for me 🙏🏻





this big plastic hunk of thing is what it replaced. 



A quick video of how it’s sounding now 👌🏻




just need a black piece of silicone for the throttle body now to make it all tidy. 

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Why doesn't the cruise work? I believe my mates Soarer one is working after the auto to manual swap (1jz engine though, not sure if it's any different), all we had to do is getting the car to think it's in drive, and make sure we can get it to think it's in park or neutral again to get it to start.

Great car, the manual makes it so much better in my eyes.

Little bit more progress on the bits I’ve made at home. Tryna preemptive strike little bits that might hold me up when I start the swap on the 28th!

Made a little adaptor brake pipe so it’s an easy to get to when the clutch bracket in up in the footwell of the car 👍🏻 Figured it’d be a faff getting a spanner right up and angled in to tighten the union up in the car (Nice little rubber grommet in the hole too I love a faff 😅)







Replaced the slave to flexi pipe with a new piece of kurnifer hard pipe



Flywheel bolts turned up today too so the only bits I’ll have to make when it’s all in the car is the pipe between the peddle and the flexi slave line and a prop shaft. Hope I’ve prepared enough 😂

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Pre manual swap MOT check came and even though the car seemed to drive fine it needed some bits 😅

Both upper arm ball joints were goosed and much to my disappointment they’re a sealed unit so it meant 2 new complete arms (rear bushes were mint too 🙄)



Jobbed. Passenger side came and first Wheel bolt decided it didn’t wanna be one with the car any more so another job added on 😬



Trip to lexus morning after and an extortionate £3 later and new bolt was bought and fitted and the drivers side was done (or so I thought 😂)



Decided seen as I had to take the caliper/carrier/disc off I’d double check the sliders on the brakes make sure the brake check for the mot would go smooth (😂😂😂) thats a 1/2 ratchet trying to just get some movement out of the sliders. Had to free 3 off with a breaker bar, which resulted in 2 twisted unusable ones by the time I’d dogged them out 🙄









Luckily one of my best mates who lives round the corner has got a JZX100 Toyota mark 2 (1jz gte - factory r154 👌🏻) and they’re the same so back on the road (luckily he had them spare cause he had 360mm ISF discs and Brembos up front now).

Next up was rear tyres. Easy peasy two were ordered off the internet and stretched onto my 10j wide rear wheels, got ny fill out of the ones that came out (amount of rear camber doesn’t help).





Next up was to replace the crusty rear anti roll bar links. Luckily the company I ordered them from sent me the wrong ones so a trip to Birmingham yesterday morning to swap them was in order 🙄.





At the same time we fitted a new lateral bush in the hub as these were worn too for the MOT.





I ordered these from PSB and they were easy to chuck in 🤙🏻

I’ve still got the inner bush on the later arm to do that comes with the set (didn’t have time today to do an alignment as it’s a camber bolt to take off) and also poly rear upper control arm bushes to fit at a later date as these are a little tired but not a fail 🤙🏻



On the MOT lane, ready to rock and roll, emissions passed and another check.



All passed ✅ took it outside. Let my mate and garage owner/tester do a smokey to celebrate (on my new tyres 😅) andddddd...



Front drivers brake pipe just completely burst. Not sure if this happened on the brake rollers or the burnout but I’m actually so happy he did it and it burst there than doing 60 on the parkway on my journey home 🤞🏻🤞🏻Luckily I had some spare (second hand but good enough) rubber ones from my 4 pot calipers, quick journey home in his courtesy car and i was back on the road. The newer brake lines are slightly different but both will be getting replaced for braided lines now after that lucky escape 🙌🏻.

Came home and celebrated by washing the car (for it only to rain) and wet vaccing my front floor mats to get rid of all signs of the last few days antics (what a wild life in lockdown).







My P clips finally turned up in the post so spent another 5mins tidying the newly made clutch lines up.



All just in time for the manual swap between and new year 🤜🏻

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Haha honestly with these string of jobs it seems like it but ifs all sorted and when the rest of the bushes are in it’ll want for nothing for while. I. Actually glad the hose burst with Nath doing a smokey and not on my next journey!

haha think you’ll just have to do one to appease him then he’ll not ask again 😂