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Hello guys!
I already wrote a tutorial for wiring up your ECU when going manual.
Now I decided to share my project with you as I have realized how far I have still gone and I want to participate and share knowlege with you!
When hail destroyed my old car in 2019, I was looking for a new one. It had to be reliable, dailyable and a good base for modifications without regretting having thrown all my money at it afterwards.
The only solution was the IS300 SX, the "supra wagon"!
Watched the market for a few months (I live in Germany and IS300s are rare in Europe) and found a nice one in Italy!
A virgin car, one owner, reimported from California! Full leather interior, navigation, all the good stuff!
Because its an 02 model it had the sticky dash. removed the stickyness with alcohol and partially wrapped the dash
You can already see the tablet fitted inside the navigation housing. it is controllable with a bleutooth touch pad which i have put in between the nav keys, which of course also work! i had to control the motor for the mechanism with an arduino so it still goes up and down. reused the factory connector, so its still detachable!
because i didnt want to go crazy with the sound, I was looking for a way to use the stock subwoofer with the aftermarket headunit. turned out pretty easy:
This is the connector on the subwoofer. you can just feed it with high level signals from your headunit, +12V and GND and it will work! Maybe I will write up a seperate tutorial if you wish!
Now it was time fore some brand new OEM headlights and taillights. all dark chrome. I painted the headlights black.
Also put some paint protection film on the inner taillights so they stay shiny.
Now the stuff which bothered me the most for daily usage was done and it got serious..
I already wrote a tutorial for wiring up your ECU when going manual.
Now I decided to share my project with you as I have realized how far I have still gone and I want to participate and share knowlege with you!
When hail destroyed my old car in 2019, I was looking for a new one. It had to be reliable, dailyable and a good base for modifications without regretting having thrown all my money at it afterwards.
The only solution was the IS300 SX, the "supra wagon"!
Watched the market for a few months (I live in Germany and IS300s are rare in Europe) and found a nice one in Italy!
A virgin car, one owner, reimported from California! Full leather interior, navigation, all the good stuff!
Because its an 02 model it had the sticky dash. removed the stickyness with alcohol and partially wrapped the dash
You can already see the tablet fitted inside the navigation housing. it is controllable with a bleutooth touch pad which i have put in between the nav keys, which of course also work! i had to control the motor for the mechanism with an arduino so it still goes up and down. reused the factory connector, so its still detachable!
because i didnt want to go crazy with the sound, I was looking for a way to use the stock subwoofer with the aftermarket headunit. turned out pretty easy:
This is the connector on the subwoofer. you can just feed it with high level signals from your headunit, +12V and GND and it will work! Maybe I will write up a seperate tutorial if you wish!
Now it was time fore some brand new OEM headlights and taillights. all dark chrome. I painted the headlights black.
Also put some paint protection film on the inner taillights so they stay shiny.
Now the stuff which bothered me the most for daily usage was done and it got serious..