Picture of the car:
http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s50/Lin...nt=49b92b80.pbw
Good evening Ls owners, some time ago I put on here a topic of all the work I have done to my LS400 – 93, to date, well on Sunday my work was completed!!!
History - I bought my car off my close boss for a mear 500 pounds, he loved the car and gave it to his sons and then they miss treated it (they were spoilt), and then 2 years later it came into my hands where I fell in love!!!! For the past year and 2 months I have slowly stripped the car and rebuilt it, I’m not a professional but someone with a lot of passion!!!
Work that has taken place:
1, Stripped all the body work off to wax oil behind everything
2, Repaired the broken ariel
3, Cleaned out the throttle body
4, Changed the Drive belt
5, Cleaned the Engine bay
6, Replace nearly all the plastic covers in the Engine bay
7, Stripped out the boot its now been grit blasted and respray
8, Repaired the auto changer and housing
9, Cleaned all carpets seats and ALL internal trims - this involved removing everyone and taking them home to be cleaned
10, Realigned all the doors, boot lid, and bonnet as they were out of sink
11, Repaired the dash as it didnt work - £1.00 well spent
12, Stripped the dash so I could clean and repair bits
13, Repaired roof trim as it was falling down
14, Installed Amp and housing for new sub
15, Repaired all side skirts front bumper and rear and replace a rear door quarter
16, Sanded down all rust spots ready for re-spray
17, Of course de-badged
18, Tinted rear and side lights
19, Cleaned up exusts using Autosol
20, Full Service
21, Installed a 10” sub
22, Custom made a sub box to fit around the fuel tank
23, Sound deadened the parcel shelf and back seats
24, Finally got the rear fog light working – put my own cables in
25, Put on clear indicators
26, Fitted halogen bulbs
27, Lowered the front by 31mm and the rear by 25mm
28, Fitted Superflex bushes to the front control arm
29, Fitted Superflex bushes to the rear trailing arms
30, All brake discs have been filed and cleaned up
31, New pads on the front
32, All calipers have been taken off, cleaned up and painted.
33, Most importantly managed to replace the Lexus tool kit in the boot.
34. Fitted gas struts to the boot
I would love to fit a body kit and do crazy extras, but ive spent so much getting the car to this stage i just want to drive it!!!
As I said my work is finished now I hand it over to the professionals (when I have the money haha). The work that needs to be done is a cat 1 alarm, windows tinted, alloys and full respray.
Hopefully next year i can come show it the LOC Rally
Best Wishes Mat