Ryan, sorry to hear about your mishap, and very happy neither you nor the beast sustained any serious injuries
I know I sound like a broken record, but any cooling issues at all with your setup? As you know, there isn't a huge population of 1UZ TT's around, and most of them have had cooling issues. It would be nice to know someone's finally sorted that gremlin definitively and what the final solution is.
Cribb, nice to hear from ya. I'm sure you have been on much more than I have lately...I had a lot of close family to work with over the last year and the work has so paid off with them! Family is more important than cars...SOmetimes, though, you gotta wonder, LOL...But, that, along with the wreck, just took me out of the scene for a year. I haven't driven the car much at all since then. My biggest issue was finding a dependable and reliable tuner...The one I hired was good, but he really never wanted to work on the car...So it was such pulling of teeth, I could never get it to where we could work on big power...I had to chase him over months and months and still come up empty handed most of the time...He had his reasons and I will respect that. On November 15th, 2013, it was driving well at about 500 to 550 WHP. Cold start, engine idle, drivability, cooling, all went well (Other than the accident). But driving the car hard over constant run after run, I have not put it through such paces...So I cannot state how efficient my cooling system is working. For daily driving, I had no issues. The occasional hard runs, no issue. John Brady came to visit for a day or too and we rode it around town.
I expect it back out of paint by the end of December, then it goes back to Raw Brokerage as Dan is one of the very best at this and his work really brought it all together and took the car home to where it is now. It will be tweaked by him and then it goes to a new tuner. Who is waiting on me...That is a change...LOL. Gonna program in and tune the traction/launch control as well. Go for some much bigger power, and see where the numbers end up.
In the mean time, I just keep trying to not get into tuning my Mercedes e550 coupe...But a little more than the stock power would be nice...Might have to buy the Twin turbo version of the coupe (In Black on Black), take it to Renntech in West Palm Beach, Florida, and then have a daily driver at 600 WHP or so...
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Mine is a 2010 black on black, normally aspirated. Just under 400 BHP and TQ factory. Still, a true gem to daily drive, and the reliability is excellent! But, I still love my Lexus, and it gets the garage baby!!!
I will update you soon. How's the Ferrari? How is your Lexus project John?
Ryan