My '06 Toyota Aurion SX6 Sportivo

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Happy New Year!! :biggrin:

Got a couple of upgrades done on the Aurion over the weekend :)

First thing was the installation of some Euro plate style license plate surrounds and the second was applying some pre-cut tint film to the lower sections of the tail lights. I wasn't 100% happy with the blandness of the plate surround so ended up using some of my left over bronze carbon fiber vinyl to wrap the sides and make it a little more interesting.

Here's some photos of the process and some before vs after shots:






































 

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Nice, but for number plates on our side, it must be black only with white letters. Nothing else to be on it......:biggrin:
 

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Nice, but for number plates on our side, it must be black only with white letters. Nothing else to be on it......:biggrin:
Haha we can't do that here unfortunately. Old cars (really old) had black number plates, but 95% of cars on the road have white plates with black lettering. Some people make the black ones, but they're not technically legal :)
 

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Haha we can't do that here unfortunately. Old cars (really old) had black number plates, but 95% of cars on the road have white plates with black lettering. Some people make the black ones, but they're not technically legal :)
So it is the reverse from ours.
Oh! white plate with black letters here are only for taxi........:rofl:
 

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A few small updates:

* 'V6 24VALVE' stickers fitted to the rear doors.

* Bought a 1:43 scale model of an Aurion (Asian Camry) from eBay.

* Received some Rays wheel nuts from Japan. Watch this space ;)

































And I decided it was time to upgrade my brakes, but I didn't need want to go for bigger calipers or larger rotors since my daily commute to work is only 10km and it's mostly straight, lol, so I settled on these Znoelli dimpled drilled and slotted rotors front and rear, combined with Bendix brake pads all round.









 

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^ Yep, Bendix CT Stealth front and rear.

The Aurion got some new wheels today. They're Vertini Magic (concave) 19x9.5 front and rear, +32 offset and wrapped in 235/35/19 rubber. They get custom drilled for the stud pattern and shaved for the offset you want so I had to wait about a week for them to get machined, but it was worth waiting for :). Being concave they bow in the middle, giving that very dished effect.

The rear guards needed to be rolled as there was slight scrubbing around corners, but apart from that the fitment was pretty straight forward. I just have to get some camber bolts for the front so I can give it some negative camber and tuck the wheels in a bit more, but apart from that the fitment is great and I'm loving the new look :D























 

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Threw some camber bolts in the front tonight. It's evened it out nicely now, so no more strange poke at the front.



 

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Fitted some slightly larger tires up front to fill up the guard gap a little better. Other benefit is that it brings the lip of the rim further away from potholes and is a bit more comfortable since you don't feel every dip and crack in the road. Fronts are 225/40/19 and the rears are 235/35/19. The old tires are only a few weeks old, but the wheel-well gap was bugging the hell out of me, so for now I'm happy :)



 

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Good job bro..
Thats very mint work.
Not so low and VIP flush to be practical.
(i think this platform being big segment, people tend to go VIP style ultra big wheels and go flush)
 

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Thanks man. This is very much a practical family car, so the goal was to enhance it aesthetically, but still keep it as something I can drive to work daily and that can haul the kids around in the weekend :)

I had been thinking of a way to fill the void in the engine bay where the factory intake used to be and ended up killing two birds with one stone by settling on this large oil catch tank. It's designed to catch blow-by oil from the PCV valve during full throttle and turns the vapor into a mist that settles in the bottom of the catch tank instead of getting sent back into the intake manifold.

Radium Engineering made a catch tank set-up for the Lotus Evora (which uses the same 2GR-FE engine) and owners have reported quite a lot of oil being caught, so they sound like they could be quite beneficial on this engine. I had one on the Corolla and it worked well, so I figured it'd be worth a shot in the Aurion. Ended up putting my factory silver engine cover back on at the same too, as I prefer the cleaner look compared to my carbon fiber wrapped cover (which I'll still keep to mix things up every now and then).

Will be interesting to see how much oil this thing collects :)













 

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