Hello from Houston, TX!

ryno9100 said:

Of all the cars on your list, the supercharged Camry intrigues me the most.

How much power? How did you tune it? Most importantly, why?

I've joined with my wife about doing stuff to her 16 Camry, but I don't know that I've ever seen a modified Camry outside of exhaust and cosmetics.

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Haha why is a great question. I don't exactly have a satisfactory answer for it. It probably defies logic. The car has somewhat of a story though.

This car was handed down to me from my father as my first car when I graduated. I was never fond of how it looked, so being a young and dumb kid, I riced the car out. After a few years and many mistakes, I was guided down a better path by some mentors and started redoing the car.

Eventually, it got out of hand. When you go in that deep, there's pretty much no turning back.

The engine is technically an engine swap from a factory TRD car in Australia called the TRD Aurion. Only 537 of those cars were produced. I purchased the engine from a wrecker in Melbourne, Australia.

They came stock with 323 BHP. It has the factory map with a few bolt on. I haven't dynoed it, but it's definitely at least 300 WHP. A healthy 100 HP over the stock V6 I'd say.

The car is also metal wide bodied. Crafted by hand by my body shop guy in Dallas. It has 8 piston front calipers and 6 piston rear calipers. It was featured in VIP Style Magazine last year and has won Judge's Choice at Wekfest.

TLDR. I'm crazy and probably a little sentimental. 😂

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Congratulations!