Full-Throttle

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 :)

Some more new photos:

Yes, the 2001 doors are the same . Your shape Tarago was made from 2001-2006.

Fitted some slightly larger tyres 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 tyres are only a few weeks old, but the wheel-well gap was bugging the hell out of me, so for now I'm happy :)

Yep, that's definitely not the factory one.

In the 4-months I've had my Eonon installed I haven't experienced any problems. No freezes, no reboots, nothing.

Both will fit fine, and I'm 99% sure you can resuse your factory Aurion clock spring without any problems at all. You'll likely have to change over your airbag igniter on the back of the hornpad if it's only a single stage airbag (sounds & looks scarier than it is) and add a couple more wires to your clock spring for the paddle shifters but apart from that it's an easy swap.

The issue with these eyelids is that one side where it wraps around the headlight usually doesn't stay stuck down for long due to the tension being too strong for the tape to handle. This happened on the RH side (driver's) eyelid for me after about a week of parking in the sun at work, so in the end I smeared some clear silicone underneath the eyelid where it wraps around and it's stayed stuck down. Apart from that, the tape it came with has held up really well and there's no way they're coming off in a hurry. The 3M tape is really good stuff though, albeit expensive.

I don't think I've ever spent this much money in such little time! . Thanks mate. Cheers man!

The steering wheel I'm using is from a Japanese Toyota Blade Master G, which coincidentally has the same V6 2GR-FE engine that the Aurion does. They come with factory plastic paddle shifters, but the paddles on my one are from a Lexus IS-F which are made from magnesium (not that it makes any difference to the performance, lol). You could use a paddle shift steering wheel from other models, such as the Lexus IS250 etc, but if you want to add the paddles to your factory Aurion steering wheel I'm not sure how successful it will be. Wiring was relatively easy as I just had to add two extra pins to the factory airbag clock spring. I also had to swap over the airbag module on the back of the hornpad but that was easy, albeit nerve-wracking. I wired the paddles to the shifter in the centre console, so it just mimics what it would be like if you changed gears using the knob (which you can still use if you want to). The new steering wheel didn't have a 'DISP' button for the cluster, but luckily I managed to wire in the radar cruise control button to function as the 'DISP' button instead. All in all they work well with no lag. Admittedly I don't often use them and they're mainly just a novelty, but it's a nice addition to have just for the hell of it

New photos:

This is my one in silver with colour matched eyelids, to give you an idea of what it looks like:

They look good but definitely need to be the same colour as the car in my opinion.