IS300 tear down and track car build

Chuck33079

Made some more progress over the weekend. The cage showed up Friday. Got the dash out. Tore out the AC and heater core, airbags and other bits. Painted the floor pan. This week I'll cut down the dash to the bare minimum needed to cover the instrument cluster and sand/paint it. I'll get some more pics up tonight.

This weekend should be sunroof removal, dash reinstall and more weight reduction. The cage needs some paint touch ups from shipping scratches as well. The seats, rails, harnesses and cage padding should get shipped out toward the end of the week. Ideally, this week and weekend is the last of the prep for the cage install. Once the cage and seats are in, it's time to fab up a gauge panel, install the gauges and electronics, and swap out the oem y-pipe for a catless one. Maybe remove the entire cat-back and replace it with a 6' turn down under the car. Then I'll pull out the ac system under the hood, grab a shorter belt, get a new set of tires and an alignment, and go play with it.

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2011 MB Touring-Sport-6sp-Nav/GTM TT/FI TT TDX/JTran/Kosmic/Eibach/Hotchkis/SPC/CSF/RPS/SoThatsWhereAllMyMoneyWent