ZEN Motors - Trend Setting Motors - Daily Grind

[carbongs]

Just posting up pictures from the shop. I will update as projects come and go. :goodjob:

Had a bit of work to do today at the shop! Just thought I'd share!

1993 Integra LS

New Brake Pads
New Radiator

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Man the new ones, on the left, are way thicker than the ones on the right, old ones.

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Had to use a high pressure clamp to push back the piston.

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Buttoned up the brake calipers and wheels.

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Started to get the radiator out.

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Drained out the old coolant

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Radiator out.

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New one on the left and the old one on the right. Had to transfer all the fans, housings, and tubes over to the new one.

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Close up

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New hoses

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All buttoned up

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[carbongs]

2005 Lexus GS300

De-badged the Trunk
New Junction Produce Spoiler
New TTE Front Lip

Before

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Used a heat gun and some goo gone with some rubbing compound afterwards to clean it up.

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3M Taped up the spoiler pieces with some high strength grade 3M Tape.

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Debadged and trunk spoiler installed.

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Test fitted the TTE lip spoiler

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Everything looked nice so we started to 3M Tape up the inner lips

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Definitely lots of people at the shop today

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Let the tape do its work for a while as we waited for the Integra to finish up on the lift.

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Drilled and screwed on the lip from the predrilled points and then taped up the lip to make sure that it held up the weight while the tape and caulking glue dries. I contemplated eating the glue at one point! So hungry!

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Officer Jermaine didn't understand what the tape was for lol

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Glued, taped, and caulked up!

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All buttoned up and finishing off the glue.

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A few pictures that I got at Zaxby's where JonFlip, G35Chaser, and I ate dinner.

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[d_day87]

some very nice work.

[Silvrmaxx]

^ i would have to agree... cant wait to see what you guys are capable of when it comes to building a car! how much is your hourly rate? jus curious

[carbongs]

we are more of a dealership. any inquiries should go to GGPIS3. thanks for the kind words though :cheers:

[Random Hero]

The rear spoiler on that GS looks great.

Nice work indeed.

[SouthrnStyle]

Very nice work

[Jonflip29]

Good coverage Tony, I didn't know you were able to take that many pictures with your hands full. LOL. I guess you did it with anger.

[carbon_crash]

2 post lift FTW

[quiet_s0ng]

can you guys mod some EP3 seats for me to mount into my EJ8 hatch? i believe all that needs to be done is cut off the EP3 mounts on the slider and weld in new ones to match up to the mount points in my EJ8 hatch. shoot me a price if you can. thanks

[WhiteAccord]

I gotta stop by... Havent been to the shop in a long time.

[GGPIS3]

can you guys mod some EP3 seats for me to mount into my EJ8 hatch? i believe all that needs to be done is cut off the EP3 mounts on the slider and weld in new ones to match up to the mount points in my EJ8 hatch. shoot me a price if you can. thanks


going to have to say no. too much liability with that type of project. if anything were to go wrong and that seat wasn't completely secured... well yeah.. gonna have to pass on this one. sorry

[GGPIS3]

but i am pretty sure turbo dave could fab it up with ease. give him a call at mainstream

[Brady]

very nice tony!!! So you quit at walmart and work there full time now? Ohh an next week should be a good week for dealers at auction....things have been uber slow the last few weeks.

[puregroove]

--good work, guys. I want to re-do my sideskirts now. :crazy:

[yungdz]

nice work guys, as usual nice coverage Tony

[carbongs]

very nice tony!!! So you quit at walmart and work there full time now? Ohh an next week should be a good week for dealers at auction....things have been uber slow the last few weeks.

Sup Brady!?! been a while huh? Yeah I quit Wal-Mart and went to Elite of Atlanta Auto Sales, then over to ZEN Motors, LLC. I am doing this full time. As a matter of fact I just started my own business - Trend Setting Motors, LLC. So now I am subcontracting work and am my own boss! The dream is coming true man!


--good work, guys. I want to re-do my sideskirts now. :crazy:

Let's Get-r-done!


nice work guys, as usual nice coverage Tony

Thanks man!

[Crazy Asian]

why couldnt you guys be opened when I was working on my car. N ow my car looks like crap cuz I tried it myself. Now I know where to go.

[carbongs]

why couldnt you guys be opened when I was working on my car. N ow my car looks like crap cuz I tried it myself. Now I know where to go.

what did you need done?

[quiet_s0ng]

but i am pretty sure turbo dave could fab it up with ease. give him a call at mainstream

thanks i'll check out ms

[manilikecars]

look at tony, clean work man, you do it right the first time

[Brady]

Sup Brady!?! been a while huh? Yeah I quit Wal-Mart and went to Elite of Atlanta Auto Sales, then over to ZEN Motors, LLC. I am doing this full time. As a matter of fact I just started my own business - Trend Setting Motors, LLC. So now I am subcontracting work and am my own boss! The dream is coming true man!

Man thats just awesome as hell. Good for you sir! Car is looking good as ever. I'm hoping to make it out to one of y'alls shows one day in the future. They always look like a killer time.

[carbongs]

look at tony, clean work man, you do it right the first time

lol thanks man.


Man thats just awesome as hell. Good for you sir! Car is looking good as ever. I'm hoping to make it out to one of y'alls shows one day in the future. They always look like a killer time.

definitely man! there's a meet up at our shop on sunday the 26th! :goodjob:

[2turbo4u]

Man you always have a camera near by, congrats on your new ventures.

[carbongs]

thanks alot for the good wishes

[carbongs]

So picked up a few parts for a client last week. They were bought off of a classifieds ad so the condition was less than perfect. Took the parts over to our powdercoating guys and had them media blast the parts and recoat them with anthracite powder. The parts look brand spanking new and will be installed shortly on a client's white Lexus GS400.

TRD Upper Strut Stabilizer Bar

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Swift Racing Technologies (SRT) Intake Heat Shield

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Swift Racing Technologies (SRT) Intake Piping with Mass Air Flow Sensor Adapter

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[Jonflip29]

Sick powder coating. I've seen it in person. I need to give you some stuff to send off for me Tony. Powder coating FTW.

[carbongs]

Sick powder coating. I've seen it in person. I need to give you some stuff to send off for me Tony. Powder coating FTW.

let's do it man! :goodjob:

[carbongs]

Took out the seats and door panels in the IS300 today for new leather seat covers to be installed.

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[carbongs]

Worked on a client's 1998 Lexus GS400 today

Swift Racing Technologies Intake

Swift Racing Technologies Heat Shield

Swift Racing Technologies HFI Race ECU

Toyota Racing Development Upper Strut Bar

HKS Axle Back Exhaust

DB Link Power Line Run to the Amplifier

Pulled the car in and aligned it up for the lift.

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Dirty and stock engine bay

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Taking off the engine cover and intake plumbing

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Covers and pipes off

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freshly powdercoated SRT intake pipe

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Had to transfer the stock mass air flow sensor over to the new pipe.

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Heat shield and Mass Air Flow Sensor adapted pipe installed

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Vacuum lines installed

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Installed the TRD strut bar and engine cover back on

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Had to take off the stock bolts for the exhaust pipes at the rear axle

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Very stubborn bolts. Car was from the north so there was a lot of rust. Had to dremel 1 bolt, 2 of them snapped and one came out smooth.

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This is the only bolt that came out ok

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The snapped bolts

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The results of dremeling off one of the bolts

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The exhuast came off though

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New ones - HKS - mocked up

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Had to run to the hardware store to get new bolts and nuts to put the exhaust on. Got back and finished the install.

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New zinc coated bolts to keep the rust to a minimum

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Started to work on the ECU for the SRT intake which wires directly into the OEM ECU to change the air/fuel ratios.

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Soldered all the connections and shrink wrapped them.

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All buttoned up and neatly packed inside the ECU box.

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Here is what the car sounded like before intake and exhaust with the ECU upgrade.

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Here is what the car sounded like after the intake and exhaust with ECU upgrade was installed.

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Started to tackle the Subwoofer. The client already had everything hooked up however the battery line was way too small for such a poerfrul amp at 950 watts. So, he asked me to run a new 0 gauge power line with a fuse from the battery to the trunk.

This was what it looked like before I touched anything. Pretty nasty and ugly if you ask me.

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The battery wire is the tiny red one

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I used the existing battery wire to run the new 0 gauge wire through the passenger side firewall.

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Took apart the kick panel to access the wire and tucked it through the side wells.

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Had to take out the rear seats to access the trunk holes

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Ran the wire through the rear deck firewall

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Then I decided to redo the ground wire while I was at it. The existing one was very small and grounded at a very inconvenient place. The new grounding spot.

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Mounted the amp on the back of the box and installed the lines.

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Nice and hidden now. Don't worry, I will be doing a custom beauty wall for the trunk to move the sup enclosure back and give him back his trunk space.

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Mounted the battery line fuse in the engine bay.

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The engine bay pre cleaning.

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Changed out the amber side markers to clear side markers.

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Cleaned up the engine bay and trunk and the customer just took delivery! Thanks for coming along today!

[EP3sAreFun]

Damn Nguyen, smile for the camera man!

[Brady]

Damn tony good stuff! Does your powder coater do ceramic coating as well? I just got a new block for my new project and need some stuff done!

[carbongs]

Damn tony good stuff! Does your powder coater do ceramic coating as well? I just got a new block for my new project and need some stuff done!

sure thing! let me know bro!

[drpepper14]

what brand 0 gauge is that? It looks more like 4 gauge

[carbongs]

DB link, it is what the client brought to me. It is 0 gauge.

[WhiteAccord]

Damn nice... I need to stop by and say hi once in a while.

[carbongs]

Damn nice... I need to stop by and say hi once in a while.

sure thing man, just call first to make sure we are here. not always at the shop.

[WhiteAccord]

PM me your number and Dans number I got a new phone.. but no numbers.

[carbongs]

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