The S gets low with Tein Street Advance coilovers and is outfitted in a raft of stiff stuff—beefy Progress front and rear stabilizer bars, RV-6 Performance front strut tower bracing, compliance bushings, et al—to manage handling. The big sedan now floats on Toyo R888R-shod 18-inch Rays Gram Lights 57Xtreme wheels in lightweight SP-spec, Shayne waiting over a year before Rays produced the specialty rims.

The build's next turning points happened after Shayne basically maxed out what he was going to get from engine naturally aspirated with bolt-ons. He might be better suited to explain this one: "One late night my buddies and I were drinking some Jack Daniels and I saw a used J&R turbo kit for sale. It was a rare item because they only made about 10 sets before going out of business, so with this one coming up on the used market, I had to have it. After a few of my buddies', 'No balls, you won't do it' comments, I sent over a deposit on PayPal and purchased the turbo kit. It then sat for two years while I added more parts to go with the turbo build, such as tuning, methanol injection, gauges, etc."

All the custom fab work you see in the engine compartment is Jason's. He weaved together the entirety of the Vibrant Performance charge plumbing and intercooler for the BorgWarner S369SXE turbo-based system, in addition to the fully custom exhaust and engine cooling apparatuses (he even did the one-off cooling setup for the power steering fluid), primarily with Vibrant (even the heat exchangers). To keep up with the turbo, Shayne upgraded fueling with a Deatschwerks DW400 pump, Injector Dynamics ID1000 injectors, and Aeromotive FPR, but we thought the one thing that stood out under the hood more than anything else (even the turbo) was the P2R Holley EFI intake manifold swap—did not see that coming.