nearly complete on mods

I went ahead and pulled the trigger. It looks like I'm saving well over $1000 on the order compared to Lewis(over $2k vs MSRP), and I seriously doubt shipping will come anything close to that. I'm going to wait and order the protector bracket and nuts locally once the bracket becomes available.

My order:
L/R deck boxes
carrier bolt
foam protector base
reinforced deck board(only $60 from Japan vs. $315 MSRP)
jack kit with big bag (bag might come in handy - only $20 extra)
L/R turn signals
L/R mirror top covers (I plan to have them painted to match the car)
L/R mirror front/bottom covers
L/R mirror retractors
replacement driver door mirror/window/lock control
reverse-linked side mirror upgrade
interior illumination upgrade(lights in rear seat footwells)
projection illumination upgrade(lights up the ground outside the front doors with a Prius logo during entry/exit)

Total is a little under $1k plus shipping. (I already have the spare wheel and tire ready to go)

Only things I'm not getting this time around are the Modellista 17" wheels, GR performance dampers, and GR door stabilizers. Those three would be over $1600 all on their own, with probably close to another $1k in shipping because of how big and heavy the wheels and dampers are. And they may not have agreed to ship the dampers anyway(they contain gas shocks).

When I'm done, this will definitely be a 1 of 1 car in the entire world. lol

 

I've mentioned it a couple times in a couple of the threads. It's different, but I don't know how different. I think it's just reinforced a little to help span the space over the tire. Until you educated me about Impex, the US price made it not worth it. For the US price of $200-$300, it's probably just better to glue some reinforcing on the back of the regular board, or put some filler in the middle of the spare. But the Japan price is $60, and I was already ordering so much other stuff, so...

Once it gets here, I'll take some photos and let everyone know what the differences are.

 

Impex is a solid company. Unfortunately the shipping rates have gotten crazy. Ive been ordering parts from them for my CR-Z for years now.

 

That's exactly what it is. It lifts the wheel to the correct height, centers it on the threaded insert, levels the spare in relation to the floor, and protects the tire and floor pan from each other.

 

The box seems oversize, but maybe not grossly so. This version of the protector looks like it might be larger than the tire. That would put the box at a bare minimum of 68 cm x 68 cm with no padding out for packaging. Add some extra foam on all sides to keep the protector from getting damaged in shipping, and 90cm x 80cm might not be that outrageous.

I'll link the parts diagram for the protector so you can see its shape, at least.

 

Nice. My order is still slowly processing. 8 of 18 items have delivery dates to their warehouse from 9/10 to 9/20. The other 10 are still blank.

I only check the status 10 or 20 times a day.

 

Finally a look at what the spare tire foam looks like. Kinda bummed that you loose a bunch of storage but a spare is a must have. I can see why you'd need the reinforced deck.

ps. can you confirm the PNs for that stuff?

 

Did you say Fumoto valve?!

What part # are you planning to install, and are any adapters or additional parts required? I don't see any recommendations on their website.

Planning to get one... even if I won't be doing my own changes for a while.

Many thanks!!

 

Search for a 2023 Corolla 2.0L L4(Prius) or a Lexus UX250h 2.0L L4(Prius Prime).

You'll actually get the same results for both searches, but those use the exact oil pans as the respective Priuses.

Both pans have a shallow angle with a wide recession that won't need an adapter. Best bet is probably the F133 series. The original F133 if you don't want to attach a hose, or a F133S(short nipple) or F133N(long nipple) if you do want to attach a hose while draining the pan.

An SX-type valve will fit(F103SX or B103SX), but the angle of the plug in the oil pan is so shallow that I think the 90 degree angle in those valves will hurt more than it helps. I'll attach a photo of the oil pan used on a Prime so you can see what I mean. The oil pan on a Prius uses the same plug angle.

 

Thanks for the detailed replies! Waiting to see if fumoto has a holiday special this weekend- the company usually does on Labor Day..

 

And sure enough, fumotousa.com has a promo- free shipping in the USA, or $5 off shipping internationally.
type HARDWORK as the coupon code.

 

am thinking about this one:
https://www.fumotousa.com/B103SX.html

it allegedly lets me orient the oil flow more conveniently....

 

@lohikaarme

Did you have to prompt Impex at any point? About half of my items have a delivery date to Impex assigned, but half are still only listed as processing. It's been a week since anything changed. Do you know if that's normal or do you think I should contact them for info?

Order was made 8/22 and immediately paid.
First update to the order was 8/28 with about half given delivery dates.
Delivery dates are 9/10-9/20