Chimp

cheers mate, cant find his profile to PM him at the moment, i think im having one of those nights / days... hell lets call it a weekend!

Hi, im a gold member, well i paid, i had a little pack come through etc but i cant post in the cars for sale section. im not at home at the moment so dont have my details... am i doing something wrong??

thats the one! you legend! cheers mate. spent an hour looking for that earlier too lol :D

Hi everyone, sorry i havent posted in a bit, been a busy bee at work and with christmas etc.... had to get the car into the bodyshop over crimbo because some oik decided to key it :tsktsk:

anyway, i know its here, i have read it, there is a thread on how to get the rear seats out of an is200 and upgrade the rear speakers etc.

i swear i have searched, i just kind find it... any help??

Steve

the handling on the is200 is pretty poor from the ones that i test drove, however 99.99% of them have the geo set up totally wrong so they dont stand a chance!

once the geo is right, the tyres are matched and decent and they are set to the correct preasures they handle VERY well!

if a car is stepping out at 20mph on a roundabout then something is drasticly wrong, its either geo, tyres, preasure or the driver not delivering and controlling the power properly.

999,836

I'm from Fareham.. So just outside Southampton. I knew of a Cusco graphic Type R that was going around Pompey. But that has been reverted back to completely standard. There is a Scooby meet in southampton monday night. So i will keep an eye out to see if this RA is there. Just out of curiosity.. is it white?

Is your Altezza Turbo'd? I had an Ibiza 20v Turbo before the Scooby and the power delivery was smooth and very quick. Wasn't like a bomb went off under the bonnet like the Scooby! Or as you described it "All hell has broken Loose"

Trouble is around my way there are loads of Scooby's, Skylines, Evo's, Civic Type R's etc. Wanted something different. So the thought of a Lexus IS200 + turbo kit etc was ideal. :)

aye mate its a white one....

my altezza isnt turbo'd, been thinking about it, also been thinking of supercharging again but i have to admit im actually leaning towards chasing some NA power...

i think the 3s-ge could see me near 250bhp with the right work and that will do me :D

how much were you paing to insure the scoob mate? i was paying just over 600 fully comp on my modded STI the tezza isnt much cheaper at 520! lol

i agree.. oliver all the way, i laughed my head off when i saw hamster had turned up with that but it just goes to show...

there is a benefit to simple engineering at times :D

Its just the standard Lexus alarm, nothing special....unless its the little blinking led thats draining it, and the one on the stereo???

i might buy one of those solar pannels that plugs into the cigarete socket and leave it in the car when i go away in the future.

Nice to meet you too mate, and thanks again for the cup holder, shouldn't you be working now???

Jason :P

well bud, the alarm as basic as it is (thats not a dis BTW) will still be draining the Battery, could be something else, but i would bet thats whats pushed the Battery to its demise.

have you checked everything is ok alternator wise and thats putting a full charge over? could be a knock on effect maybe?

and yes.. i should be working, im sat at my desk looking like im working but in reality im sat surfing the net looking at automotive porn and hanging out in the LOC

what alarm do you have mate??

yours woulldnt be the first alarm to drain a Battery in 2 weeks mate, you can get trickle chargers that keep the Battery topped up while you are away for this sort of problem

nice to meet you earlier by the way :D

welcome to the LOC mate, good luck selling the scooby. had one myself a little while ago :D

i dont suppose your around southampton by any chance? there is a type RA with cusco decals that i see regular as clockwork :D

one thing i will say to warn you in advance, the scooby has such an aggresive power delivery, you will certainly miss it, i would honestly doubt that any FI'd is200 could replicate the feeling you get in a scooby at about 3k rpm....

its a bit like,

1k.. its idleing, push the peddle down.

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...

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2k.. its picking up the flat 4 starts to sound aggresive

....

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2.5k you start to feel pushed back in your seat when....

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3k ALL HELL HAS BROKEN LOOSE, you are FORCED back in your seat, the blood is rushing out of your eyes into the back of your skull and then..

oh my we just hit the redline at 8k :D

personally, i enjoy driving my altezza far more than i ever did my scooby, monsterous power is great fun, but you get used to the feeling of the power, it becomes les exciting and the novelty does ware off IMHO.

nice car fella.

looking very good!!

how good is that talex??? what model is it matey??

cheers mate :D

i wouldnt be without my talex, mine is the talex lite and i think there about £70 now, i have had it just over 18 months and i love it, its fantastic for GPS speed (you would be amazed how out car speedo's are) and its kept my licence point free since i got it :D (touches wood lol)

you would need an ECU like adaptronic or megasquirt to be able to do without it...

i think the Emanage ultimate can be set up to run without a MAF too

righty, actually got out there and gave the car a clean today, not a full detail but got it good enough for some piccies anyway :D

here is what she looked like when i got her a few weeks back...

and here are a few of her now...

as you can see, the modding has already begun! :D i prefer the standard grill, makes the car look a bit less common IMHO, or it does in these parts anyway, got my talex installed in the car, LEDs in the dash, brake calipers painted, induction kit is all sorted too...

next pay check ill get the exhaust sorted and then its time to start saving for some alloys because these are kerbed to hell, not by me i might add!

any comments, critisisms greatfully recieved.. :D

have a good'un :D

hi mate, welcome to the LOC.... just up the road from me :D

skinny sister as mentioned was the previous solution, i would assume small children would also work in the same way lol.

other than that its AA or RAC time. hope you get sorted.

after buying a 51 lexus rx 300 i have decide after 5 weeks to get rid of it. i find that having a petrol tanker behind me makes for hard reversing. what have i bought ??? A volvo s80 2.4 d5 exec twin turbo diesel. 48 mpg, 140 mph, dvd/tv, sat nav, fridge, etc etc etc. absolutely everything a boy could want. Lexus.... you can keep 'em. The worst thing i have ever spent my money on. BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

ahhh....

I'm about to take delivery of a 2nd hand rx300. The screen on the dashboard has all the buttons for satnav but when i push them it says "external module disconnected".. does this mean i have it but it's not working or does it mean i have to buy one ?? Sorry to sound so dense but this is the first lexus I have bought, it definitely won't be the last.

changed your mind pretty quick on that mate, i hope you are happier with the volvo for longer than you were the lex.

very very different cars, big change, still i think most people have bought a car with good intensions and found its not really what there looking for. i hope you have researched the volvo a bit more than you did the lex rx,

defo one for pro fitting that...

like the skirts, like the arches, not keen on the rest tbh

brake mask????

i think you need a special weight to get them off...

a long weight....

a second opinion here is a must mate, i can smell the fishyness from here

aye, in my experience i can say that all dynos are not equal, i now a car that at one dyno made 199 bhp then at another a few weeks later with nothing changed made 214! (it wasnt an IS)

cars loose there power as they got older, so its very unlikely any car when NA was making its quoted BHP. (sorry but its true)

i have to ask though, are all you guys running the intercooler set up? with what i know about superchargers i wouldnt be suprised if your not loosing some power there. i know dropping intake temps gives more BHP, but your increasing throttled volume which has a negative effect.

being honest with you, i think for TTE SC, 180 ish or above is pretty good, its not a huge charger, not sure what the capacity of it is exactly per revolution but i would guess at around 45. so the gain is about right, more can be had with a bit more control over fuel and timing thats for sure

electric

crossroads

ill go £35 :D

deffo fail for the airbag light, 100% sure on that. the ABS light is a grey area TBH, i think it would depend on how detailed the MOT station is that you use.... theoreticly it should still fail though.

i would want to know why the ABS sensors have been removed??? that makes no sense to me.

welcome by the way, :D

to say for sure i would want to know what it idles at normally, what it drops too with the AC on etc... but to be honest mate, sounds pretty normal :D