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105k miles, come to find out it has a teensy electrical problem (drain on battery). just picked it up about 10 minutes ago.

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Wonder what the drain is? Shouldn't take very long to diagnose anyways. Looks nice.

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turbo that bitch

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the day it's paid off I'm gonna either save up to HMT it or do a proper 2jz swap. That'll probably be 2011 though.

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and nawzzz! :6

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ballin!

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I love that color. That's the color I wanted the slo if I kept it. Do a full detail and get it blinging for real. :X

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cool what'd you pay if you dont mind me axin' O0

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Congrats! Mine is an 03', owned it since august of 06' and love it. It sucks in the snow though. I am piecing together an HMT kit right now. These cars are surprisingly easy to work on. Do the work yourself and save $$$$$


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Original asking price was $13.9 Sat on the lot, so they lowered it to $12.9. I made a semi-lowball offer of $11.2 and they countered with a weaksauce $11.5 which is where it landed. :)


good advice, but this ain't my first rodeo ;)

If I DO decide to go HMT on the stock motor (it'll get boosted one way or another dont worry), I dont expect to invest more than $1.5k for ~300 reliable whp.

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---- ya, sounds like a good deal. 7 psi on stock compression=fun. I have heard that 10 psi is max without putting in a thicker head gasket. I have seen many dyno sheets of guys running 300-320 to the wheel on only 6-7 psi. Is it auto or manual? Supposedly the autos are stronger but I have yet to verify this.

I figured you would be working on it youself, seems lke many is300 owners dont even change there own oil. I want to seem more solid hmt setups on this car, not prefabed turbo kits costing 5 grand. You have the miata with the AEM f/ic right? I have read that the AEM piggy works real good on this car.

Get some more pics!!!

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yeah I am not one of those guys that lets other ppl change his oil. Only reason I'd take my car to a shop is if it's a)under warranty or 2)in need of an alignment.

Yep I've got the miata with the F/IC and figured it'd work pretty good on the IS. It's a pretty kick-ass piggyback.

Short list of ---- to do:
1. figure out the electrical problem

2. get a driver floor mat

3. detail, claybar, wax

4. flush/fill ATF, oil, oil filter, diff fluid, air filter if needed.

5. wait until this SOB is paid off :(


my payments is like $360 but im gonna try and do $500 every month to pay it off quicker = boost it quicker.

edit: I've heard from several ppl that the autos are a bit stronger than the manuals.

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aww shiet, another is300? I can say i was the first one, nice choice in color. My buddy dynoed at like 340whp @ 7 lbs with a t4/sc61. He pretty much pieced up his whole kit and is running the aem f i/c. I was going to boost my car right now, but decided to wait off till i paid this bitch off. i'm going to do the r154 swap, gte internals and roll with it lol. And i do change my own oil, just not in the winter time.

edit: hit up my.is or isfanatics.com or clublexus.com if you haven't already. my.is is pretty much the honda-tech for IS car's.

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That's the color I want to hide the y49 on my CRX with.

Nice car.

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also about the same color as my car. i pretty much paid a little extra since they are hard to come by in the color(they only made the car in that color the last year) good choice

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graphite gray pearl is the color.

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Its a hot color. I have seen His^ in person a couple times. Much classier than rolling your project Civic everywhere.

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illmatic.

ac calls it anthracite metallic but looks to be exact

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Very nice indeed

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nice car. I just saw the new ISF yesterday. jeezus that car is amazing.

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you goin to slide that thing or what?
and i say stay away from the 2jz and get a 1uz-fe (4.0L v8, revs to 8k stock and 11k almost stock and they sound awsome, http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ba8sT2BQ4uc&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CSmllpDQ8lA&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VIbxqfAyiIM&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AHsx9G_oQ0U
there are menny more (the coin test was only to 6500rpm because that is the rev limiter when in park, stock i think is 7k but will rev to 9 easily)

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not a big fan of boats

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so he should pull the stock motor? ???

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GGP>that :P
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/153/img2798cd6.jpg
its kinda dirty lol

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i always loved those cars, just not what you would ever expect from a lexus. congrats on that one ;)

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zix is that yours? i'll rape up on you in just about every category and i have a slushbox ;)

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i liked those too, still do, was lookin at them for a while, then i decided id jsut get a bmw cause thats toyotas version of a 3 series figured might as well go straight to the source. not sure if that was a good idea or not, ems woulda been alot easier had i got the is. that color is pimp

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B-47M > all.

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Boats? Have you ever seen an IS300? They aren't that big. I'd compare it to a Civic sedan, size-wise.

I have always loved the IS300. The prices on them have dropped so much I can easily afford one now, but I have about 37 other vehicles I want at the same time. :'(

Very nice car. The ricer in me wants one of those in yellow and I have no idea why because I'm not a big yellow fan, but it really does it for me. :l
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