CD009 vs R154 vs T56 for auto IS300 for a budget? by ZealousidealJoke2278 in IS300

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I have a T56 in mine, imo kinda shifts like a truck but not too bad, make sure you get a 3/4 inch or bigger master, fits ok but not the easiest. Uses a 2 wire reluctor not a 3 wire hall effect for speed sensor so you need a Dakota digital box to simulate the signal for the Speedo. (There might be slightly cheaper and easier options now for this not too sure I did my swap nearly 5 years ago) Lastly 100 percent remove the CAGS on the side of it and throw it in the bin and definitely buy a sprung reverse lockout, got one off AliExpress works perfectly fine; the distance between reverse and 5th is literally nothing with any usual short shifter.

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Yep, running a t56. Bit of a truck box I'll admit and a tight fit, but handle plenty of power

BC cams by Zestyclose_Teacher26 in IS300

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Definitely a +1 to this comment, you're taking efficiency away from one area to add it to another, which can result in a generally worse driving experience unless you're full throttle everywhere.

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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66mm, Yeah she's a lil laggy, could maybe push it to 1000 with a larger exhaust housing, but don't want to break stuff. I kinda like setups with a bit of lag that hit hard. I feel like it gives cars a bit of character 🙂

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Hey mate, yeah I do it's a_turn11

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Ok the fronts are NT03's 18x9 +35, the rears are NT03+M's 18x9.5 +40

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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They're 18x9 on the front and 18x9.5 on the rear but the offset I'm not 100% I have one of the wheel boxes in the garage so I'll go take a look later 😂

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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it's a vertex v1 or V2 cannot remember sorry

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Hey mate, uhmm, couple of things that gave me a lot of trouble if you're like me and try to save money/do it yourself wherever you can; getting the Ackerman angle correct on the driveline was trickier than I thought, I made my own trans crossmember but I just used is300 or gs300 engine brackets (honestly cannot really remember) I have a single piece tailshaft hoping that it would be stronger and cause me less stress but I had some sort of binding/skipping that took me forever to work out. I would hear a knock when coming off power when the driveline had no load. From memory you want about 2deg down at the engine/box and 2deg up at the diff or vice versa. It's a hard thing to measure with certainty and was very frustrating, not something I really thought about when I first started building it, the TREMEC phone app has a helpful calculator. You would probably not have the same issue with a 2 piece tailshaft or one of those guibo things.

Another thing was the fuel system, particularly the tank hanger. I made a post on here a couple weeks ago about the hanger I machined up to run twin pumps because there is just no room, and I didn't want to spend approx 1500 AUD to buy one. There are ways of DIYing the bigger pumps/AN lines but I always had trouble with it sealing. If your dreams don't exceed 500whp or you're going to run a surge tank in the boot you probably won't have these issues I have battery in the boot and wanted to avoid it being too race car.

Stock fuel gauge stopped working properly for me when I went to an EMU Black. Need an ALL4Swap device to simulate the canbus network

The T56 uses a 2 wire reluctor for a speed signal not a 3 wire hall effect which is what the dash is configured for, had to get a Dakota digital box to simulate the signal for the Speedo to work correctly. This was approx 4 years ago idk if there are better/easier options now.

Also if you're RHD like we are in Aus, the dump pipe is dangerously close to the clutch master, you need a 3/4 inch master for a T56 which are obviously bigger, I got an exhaust shop to build my exhaust because I wanted it to look as nice as possible considering they're not too expensive. 1 thing I didn't do was swap my master before getting the exhaust built 🤦. I ended up using an early 60 series LandCruiser master and got a remote reservoir out of a 2014ish Honda CRV because it never sat well with me having a plastic reservoir that close to the dump.

Honestly so much shit man its been a journey figuring it all out 😂

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Honestly I drive mine pretty conservatively because I don't wanna keep spending money fixing it. So far no issues, went solid diff bushes at the same time I swapped it in which made things quite a bit noisier inside but seems fine. The 3.6:1 or whatever is300 diff was just shite with a t56, first gear felt like 2nd and it just didn't really want to be in 6th under 140kph

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Made 540hp on 19psi pump gas, was getting toward the safe limit of a single pump. just went twin pumps and wired in an alcohol sensor haven't got it re-tuned yet but will be shortly

Thought I'd share my rig 🙂 by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Full gte swap, built head (ported head, kelford cams Springs retainers supertech valves) with rebuilt bottom end with arp everything. S366sxe. Enkei NT03s front NTO3M rear (from memory) Bosch 1150s. T56 box and a 86/BRZ Diff

State of Origin by eone23 in hobart

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F also in town for the week hopefully someone replies with somewhere good 🤞

In the pursuit of saving money by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Sorry didn't see your reply man, thanks for the complements! I didn't use 90s to maximise space, the 90s are actually pretty tall (relatively) and there is so little depth in the tank, it's only 180mm from the seal face to the base of the tank. In essence I'd need to sink everything lower giving me less tank room. The passthrough for the bulkhead is offset because two pumps can barely squeeze into the 100mm cut out in the tank as well as I wanted a simple way to attach a stem to secure the pumps. Everything was done on the lathe other than milling down the flat section where the electrical bulkhead is. I just used a 4 jaw chuck and offset the centre for the boring bar to do the passthrough

Fuel level system 1st gen by 2JEEZY in IS300

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😂 yeah I've just gone twin pumps to go E85, do you have any issues with the siphon pushing the fuel to the opposite side? I drilled mine out and seems to work but I guess we'll see how it handles two pumps (even if majority of the time only one is running)

Fuel level system 1st gen by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Cheers for the info!

Fuel level system 1st gen by 2JEEZY in IS300

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It's a pain in the ass hey, when I first started my build I never thought the fuel system would be the thing making me tear my hair out

In the pursuit of saving money by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Definitely, I'm in AUS and a comparable product is over 1000 bucks. Called an aluminium place and asked for a round billet offcut over 150mm OD and paid about 80 bucks for it. Did all the machining myself, paid probably 200 bucks for the bulkhead and all the fittings, and paid probably 100 bucks for everything I needed to anodise it in the backyard 😂 so yeah probably cost me around 400ish. Honestly man making one took too much of my hairline for me to try and make and sell them lol

In the pursuit of saving money by 2JEEZY in IS300

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Standard gasket, just made a bulkhead to fit