DCW Firestorm FRS
 

First of all - let me give you a short story. Im located in Lithuania - Europe. For past 7 years was working on STi / ST205 Celicas and other Japanese sport cars. Had my own AE86 project - that i gave up to get the GT86. After asking my local dealer about BRZ / GT86, got the answer that wasnt the one i expected - they will be released in my country round 6 month later then FRS was in USA... So :) I bought FRS in USA :) Asked my friend to put a deposit on it in March - and got the car in Chicago Jun 20 :) Got the Title going - and off it was in a container - taking trip around half of the globe - to the other side of the pond :)

Got the car last week, so still was enjoing it as it is :)

Here are few pics:

The day when it was delivered to Continental Toyota:
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And here it is in a Port parking lot - waiting to get loaded. At the same time - i bought Sparco Assetto Gara 18x8 with some Dunlop tires, and Eibach springs for it :) Wheels where on the car with the stock ones loaded inside.

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Unloaded - and driving it back home :) Was a superb day - waitied for it to come for almost 2.5 month! And finally got it :) Lithuanian dealers all got demo cars right now - but if i would go and order one - it would take another 2-3 months to get it :) So i was super happy that i will be (might be :D) first one to get the car registered as a person in LT :D


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Here it is near my other 'toy' :D Sti TypeR. Not so small at all :) Actually side by side - they are almost the same size :)

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Ok - so got it home Thursday - Friday took it for a few spins round home town - but driving it with IL license plates around - got local cops intrested :D I dont want to mess around - so will have to wait till i get Title from US - cuz Fedex managed to lose the envelope with title - and now im waiting for a dublicate...

Soooo - as i cant drive it fully yet - time to take it apart :D Before all the mod's - lets get one good picture of how it looks - and later on there will be some progress pics ;)

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Today from early morning - started works :) As i do work on all different client cars daily - its a bit hard to find motivation to get stuff going with my own cars (i have few :D) But FRS was another story :D

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Stock springs removed - Eibachs installed. Heres a quick comaprison:
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After springs install - next step was to get all the nasty chrome from headlights out :D Started with corner lights. As i wanted them to not be totaly black inside - i used airbrush + over reduced black paint to get the black chrome look :) In pics its hard to see - but they are not matt at all, chrome is still see throu the black :)

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Headlights where next. As i wanted to leave some small details stil in chrome - so i masked all the places - and sprayed some matt black along with some bumper texture paint. Here how they look after few coats of paint:
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And i remebered - that if i want to get this FRS legal here - i need to add parking lights inside headlights - cuz we have a law - that parking lights cant be in the same housing as other lights (in this case - turn lights in US..)

Sooo.... Got the idea roling - and i did a little round strip of plexi glass + 2 white leds on both ends. Sanded plexi strip with 800 grit to get it looking a bit matt - and that it would light up. Heres the result:

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Put the light back together - and heres comparison to the stock one:

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Finished other side - and put everything back together. Looks 10x better then stock :)

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As its still light here - will wait till it gets a bit darker - and will take picture with the leds light up :)

And here how it sits after Eibach springs :) Was pretty inpresed of the ride with them - cuz honestly it seems like they are a bit softer then Stock springs! If not - then equal to the stock ones :) Cuz ride aint got any more hard...

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All the emblems have been changed the same day to the Toyota ones :) And i did Black background for the front emblem to get the same theme going as all the grills / headlights and etc :)

Hmmm - whats next? Build a bodykit for it. Already agreed with one local comapny who has CNC / 5axis machines - so bodykit / molds should be CNC'ned from foam straight ahead after initial scan of the car / renderings that we will make ;) So stay tuned for more info pretty soon :)

The car looks great. Lots of mods quickly. :)

I am impressed. That is one good looking car. The work you did on the headlights, left me in awe. Excellent work, and interesting touches on attention to detail. I like the whole package!

Thanks for the coments! :) Here are how the parking lights look in the dark:

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Interesting touch with the headlights...the car looks much more aggressive than stock now :thumbup:

Took my GT3 home today - so i HAD to take a pictures next to FRS :) And to be honest - FRS even looks bigger! :)

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And another picture with another toy i have :) Got title dublicate today from US - so im now good to drive it! Next week will need to fit rear foglight - and will be ready to register it :)

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Oh, wow! Sorry for being more interested in the Z car, but those are very rare in Europe too, no? We got way more here in the United States than anyone else did. You're a lucky man!

Hehe - guess where i got it? :D

http://www.speedhunters.com/2012/09/s30_journey/

Same thing with the GT3 ;) Last year it was still in NY :D And now look where it is... :D

Very nice!!! I wish I could afford to do that to my 240Z :cry:

I really like the blacked out headlights & bumper lights, looks really good.

Your Datsun is absolutely gorgeous:thumbsup:

Your mods came out great. The dark headlights will be a must.

Today i finally found some time to install Perrin pulley :) And to be honest - was a bit sceptial about all the 'gains' it adds...

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Install was quite straight forward - and once done - it was WOW... Really - WOW. Never thought that it would free up this engine so much - response from the pulley was sooo much better!! Damn - its such a nice / cheap mod and gives a lot bigger smile now driving my FRS :)

Next step - had some Bride Gias seats that i bought long before car came in - they are in reupholstery shop now :) Doing them in black alcantara + red stiches. Should be able to install them later maybe next week :) Also - sourced brakes from 03' STi - so these should go in pretty soon too :)

Did my Tails today also. Done them in transparent black - so they look more like dark bronze / chrome now:

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Will be doing rear lights / fog tomorow maybe :) And need to get this damn thing registered finally...

I'm really liking the war this car is going, nice job :thumbup: