Well since I've owned my TL for a whole four months or so and have done a decent amount of mods I figured I should make a proper progress thread instead of posting pictures here and there. I purchased the car in April 2011, when I bought it the previous owner had already put some tasteful mods on it (besides the wheels). It had 18" Konig Zero-in wheels, full aspec kit, aspec suspension, progress RSB, painted grill, and interior LED lighting throughout. Heres a pic the day I got it.

As soon as I bought it I went to discount tire and put an order in for 18x8 enkei ekm3 wheels in hypersilver (light gunmetal in my opinion) had them mounted with yokohama yk520 235/40/18 tires in late april. Got a great deal on these and they will eventually be my winter rims once I get my Advan Rs-d's next year hopefully :P .

Also around the same time I added a shift knob, and a comptech short shift adapter.


In may I added drilled/slotted rotors from brakemotive and have been very pleased with them so far. Had to replace a caliper though soon after but I should have just done it when I had it off in the first place. That was my dumb mistake. I've considered painting the calipers gloss black to match the brembo's up front, any opinions?




Free child labor FTMFW!
In late may I decided to try and open and paint my headlights. They turned out decent but I didnt like how you could see the switchback plain as day with the diffuser out and I really didnt want to open them up again so I bought a set from JNC and really like them much better anyways. First set is ones I did.


Here are a couple random pics from a photoshoot and some others in may 2011.



And the last few mods I have done in July were replacing the short ram intake with a K&N Typhoon, and putting a single 10" sub and an amp in. Sub has been changed out to Kicker CVR now but dont have pictures of it.

Old crappy off brand intake

New intake, sounds sooo much better.

Trunk setup. sounds pretty good, its about 400 watts RMS.
And as of today I installed custom tails by AckTL05 (thanks for the great deal again) They look amazing and have already caught some peoples attention in traffic.


And here is a picture of the wheels I am wanting to get if you would like to give me opinions before I go spend 3300 bucks on them in the future.

Thats all for now, I'm sure I forgot minor things that nobody cares about (switching tranny fluid) but I'm out of money. I did however order my ht spec version two type 1 coilovers last friday from heeltoe so as soon as I get them put on I will post pictures. Thanks for looking and opinions are welcome good or bad.

 

and please ignore the crappy pics. my car takes all my money so I cant afford a dslr camera.

 

Advan RS up front, Advan RS-D out back.

 

1 - Love the child labor pic.

2 - to answer your question: paint the rear calipers to match the front.

3 - Nicely done on your mods.

 

ya that

 

Car is looking nice.

Specs of the new rims?

 

18x8 38 offset

 

Nice progression man.

 

Making some nice progress. What exhaust is that?

 

Very nice progress-keep up the good work. What's next?

 

thanks, next up im not sure. im out of money after I get these coilovers put on. But I would like to get xlr8 quads and type s bumper and lip on the rear. And after that I gotta start saving, car needs touched up at the least, paint is chipped and there are some dents. Then wheels after.
and as for the exhaust it is a tenabe medallion

 

looks good!

 

you car has come a long way since the first pic....

those enkei's looks like fiyahhh....and if you get the advan i would be so jelly....but 3300, i would pass

but overall you car is looking good....

PS: make sure the cops are not seeing the child labor pix....it will call for trouble j/k

 

+1 I'm going to do mine once I replace the pads/rotors.

Do you own a house? If not, save your $3300 for a house. If you do, then do what you want!

 

Car looks good!! Clearly lots of time and $$ spent Personally though, I prefer your first set of tails with the NBP paint.

 

We should meet up some time man... Almost the same cars. :o

 

Your TL is coming along great! Nicely done sir

Good choice on the Advans too. So damn expensive though.

 

your wheels look good now, man! i'm sure you can use the 3k on other mods lol

The Advans are nice, but imo, not worth the 3k.... it can be used on ur exhaust + tl-s bumper

 

Digging the wheels!

 

i duno, you can tell when somebody has the knockoffs for these wheels, 3k is steep but god they are sexy

ya for sure, hit me or daniel up we are always cruising and going places (07tltypesex)

to each his own, I liked both sets
there is already a seperate savings account for a house in the works, should hopefully be in a house in the next 18 months

 

[Mr. Burns voice]Excellent Smithers[Mr Burns voice off]

With rates being so low, the sooner the better! I'm glad you have a plan!!

 

NBP_Aspec_05 how much for your old type S tail lights??

 

Already sold em

 

Those are sweet looking taillights!

 

put my ht spec type 1 version 2 on today, still need to adjust the ride height obviously but just thought I would post this pic for fun. slammed status :

 

Love it!

Raise it half an inch or so and you'll be

 

^^^^ And stay away from those curbs-you're pulling up too close to the sidewalk.

 

^^^^ also a hazard if some dumb kid walks into your car or even worst hits their bike pedal off your bumper

 

ok so we got the height adjusted a bit today, raised it about an inch all around, little more in the front. I'm gonna see how this goes for a week or so and see how I like it. next up....spacers

 

You need to raise the rear a little. It's lower than the front.

Plus do you even have room for spacers? Looks like you're pretty close to rubbing already.

 

ya i think we are gonna raise the rear another .25-.5" this week sometime. and im not sure if ill have room for spacers either. might have to raise it up a bit. i just dont like the sunk in wheel look

heres a few more pics my buddy daniel took.

 

spacers needed!

 

Nice mods and those are sick wheels. Love them

 

just a small update, got rid of the enkeis and am saving for my next set of wheels. not 100% yet what I am getting. Also I got my type s rear bumper and lip put on yesterday, going to be selling my tanabe so I can get my quad exhaust this spring.

 

looking good bro... and about those rims they gonna look so sexy on that tl...

 

Waddup homie skillet! cars looking awesome, i had to stop over one day and check out the new bumper, from the pics it looks pretty badass! i have to check out nikki's work. lol anywho sorry i aint make it to ur bday dinner, i will swing over with some beer one of these days & we can go for a cruise, its been long overdue since we got the cars together xspecially with the this nice weather we've been having.

 

Nice progress. I vote for a clean set of A-Spec wheels. Slammed TL's on A-Spec wheels look amazing.

 

ya for sure man, hit me up.

 

ive thought about it but really wanna go stanced out, get a staggered set of volks or something

 

Cars clean, I'm jelouis of your coils. Mine won't be in for another month and half uhhg.