- 15 jun 2015
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Hi L Forum.
I just purchased a 2002 Peal Grey IS300 SportCross E-Shift to be used as our family daily:
The Car 100,000miles with one previous owner. The car was fully Lexus Serviced with all receipts included with the most recent receipt being forthe timing belt change, water pump, front brake callipers and new tires (3,800 euros at dealer!!!).
In the past couple weeks I have done some maintenance and a little extra:
Engine Oil Change
Auto Trans Fluid Drain regiment
Maf Cleaning + TB Cleaning and a New TB Gasket
Replaced Old Cabin Filter with a New charcoal unit:
New Oem Engine Air Filter (old one was Done):
Wired a Grom Bluetooth integration with a Tom Tom Live GPS Unit:
Re-Wired Rear Parking sensors (Ground had 1.2V because it had been installed on a Painted Bolt)
New Varta G7 battery:
This is about the max size battery that could possibly fit without a custom battery tray (still required battery tray dremeling)
Custom Joe Z Style Intake(still would like to powder coat it):
Custom TU University Style Snorkel Mod:
IS300: DIY for ?TU Intake Snorkel? Mod | Tuner University
First I used an end from a M50 BMW Thermostat house
Used an M50 BMW Coolant hose perfect contour for fit next to headlight
Cut Hole In Airbox
Then Glued in pipe fitting using self etching plastic epoxy
And Attached Coolant hose
Purchased some used TRD Yellow sway bars from Japan:
Poor Boy Polished the body which really brought out the metallic flake look and I like it
Changed the limiter slip diff fluid with redline 75w90 (with no slip modifier)
Called in a favour and had Denso Europe gap and test a new set of spark plugs for optimum performance
(my car is still running the original plugs and is over due for a little tune up)
Installed new Brembo disks and pads because I found that the heat shield had destroyed the old set. Previous owner had them replaced by the dealer a year ago but they just put new parts on and didn't fix the heat shield contact issue first
This significantly improved my fuel economy!
I had my hollow TRD sway bars powder coated black (front 30mm +49% rear 19.1mm +99%):
Installed the front bar and rear bar with new links and a Universal Energy suspension bushing kit (Needed Cutting of the tabs and slots but was a perfect fit otherwise):
The IS should have come with beefy sway bars from the factory as it handles corners and roundabouts with ease now.
Looking forward to taking it on our next trip to Belgium.
I have a couple more plans for the car and will post more photos as I go.
Kind regards
Lumin
I just purchased a 2002 Peal Grey IS300 SportCross E-Shift to be used as our family daily:
The Car 100,000miles with one previous owner. The car was fully Lexus Serviced with all receipts included with the most recent receipt being forthe timing belt change, water pump, front brake callipers and new tires (3,800 euros at dealer!!!).
In the past couple weeks I have done some maintenance and a little extra:
Engine Oil Change
Auto Trans Fluid Drain regiment
Maf Cleaning + TB Cleaning and a New TB Gasket
Replaced Old Cabin Filter with a New charcoal unit:
New Oem Engine Air Filter (old one was Done):
Wired a Grom Bluetooth integration with a Tom Tom Live GPS Unit:
Re-Wired Rear Parking sensors (Ground had 1.2V because it had been installed on a Painted Bolt)
New Varta G7 battery:
This is about the max size battery that could possibly fit without a custom battery tray (still required battery tray dremeling)
Custom Joe Z Style Intake(still would like to powder coat it):
Custom TU University Style Snorkel Mod:
IS300: DIY for ?TU Intake Snorkel? Mod | Tuner University
First I used an end from a M50 BMW Thermostat house
Used an M50 BMW Coolant hose perfect contour for fit next to headlight
Cut Hole In Airbox
Then Glued in pipe fitting using self etching plastic epoxy
And Attached Coolant hose
Purchased some used TRD Yellow sway bars from Japan:
Poor Boy Polished the body which really brought out the metallic flake look and I like it
Changed the limiter slip diff fluid with redline 75w90 (with no slip modifier)
Called in a favour and had Denso Europe gap and test a new set of spark plugs for optimum performance
(my car is still running the original plugs and is over due for a little tune up)
Installed new Brembo disks and pads because I found that the heat shield had destroyed the old set. Previous owner had them replaced by the dealer a year ago but they just put new parts on and didn't fix the heat shield contact issue first
This significantly improved my fuel economy!
I had my hollow TRD sway bars powder coated black (front 30mm +49% rear 19.1mm +99%):
Installed the front bar and rear bar with new links and a Universal Energy suspension bushing kit (Needed Cutting of the tabs and slots but was a perfect fit otherwise):
The IS should have come with beefy sway bars from the factory as it handles corners and roundabouts with ease now.
Looking forward to taking it on our next trip to Belgium.
I have a couple more plans for the car and will post more photos as I go.
Kind regards
Lumin
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