davidbee

I don't mind if its not 100% perfect, the car was brought for £400 a year and a half ago and was just supposed to be used 'for now' until it breaks and then would of been scrapped but 15000 miles later its still going on at 174k now.

Would I be better off trying to put the bubble on the 0 (zero) on the gauge? I wouldn't be able to get 0.1 as it would be so close to the zero anyway I may as well just put it on the zero? Or is the green line in the picture 0.1?

i'm adding this to the side of the rim using a bar from top to bottom of rim edge. not with the car on axle stands on the disc face.

oh and thanks for the comments guys :)

full droop? i have the car sitting on the floor at the time after a short drive then i check the camber on level ground.

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noby i think he's talking about me, the acis valve i have mine disabled so i don't have to wait for the engine to reach 4500rpm, it feels like it all the time, (and no the intake valve inside the engine aren't open all the time, that would be a disastrous fail lol) also the lexus is200 doesn't have a VVT-i kick like the vtec kick in hondas lol i would of thought someone else would of figured this stuff out by now or i'm i just a true legend ;) http://www.lexusowne...09 join here and then look for me (David Mr Haynes Bishop) https://www.facebook...79809172041079/

i'ts one of the hardest things i've had to get to on the lexus, the solenoid and the valve is tucked under the inlet manifold, i suppose you could remove the alternator but i did mine by going under the car behind the front wheel with just enough room to get one hand up there, pulling of the pipes was difficult, the valve isn't sitting flat and it is hard to feel which way to pull the pipes to get them off, they are a little bit stuck, don't expect to be able to get any screwdrivers up there to pry the pipes off because you don't have enough room.

did you get to the bottom of this?

check the fuel pressure in this link here http://949racing.com...-injectors.aspx you'll see that with more pressure you can increase the flow rate, why not just increase the fuel pressure? same ones fitted to a mazda rx8 http://www.miataturb...0-4450-a-65301/ or here http://www.ebay.co.u...cat=0&_from=R40 or these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-1ZZ-2ZZ-Mazda-RX-8-430cc-Fuel-Injector-Yellow-/360577452840?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item53f4174b28

remove the pipes and then plugging the pipes then refit them to the intake and the valve, works a treat! no more waiting for the revs to slowly build up and then at 4500 it goes like a rocket, i can over-take quickly and smoothly blasting from 50-80 with no issues :D So you're saying that to get the acis to always be in the same state it is above 4000rpm, you have to block the vacuum feed to the valve? exactly that :) i tried various things first like connecting it directly to the inlet but i got no power past 4500rpm it was sluggish, i blocked the pipes now i just get what feels like a normal full revving engine. Stuart Aspey before i got my lexus (i wanted one for a year and a half) i knew it was the type of car to drink a bit of juice and i said i wanted to fit a diesel, even a 1.9 tdi from a vw golf would feel better to drive than the sluggish straight 6 24 valve and with better fuel consumption. even the old petrol redtop engine in the vauxhalls was only 4 cylinder and making the same bhp and used less fuel. why can't we have any of those options in standard form in the lexus is200! i always felt that i had to struggle to get my car from A-B with the same amount of fuel as what used to be put in a mg-zr 120+ that we used to use, i noticed my foot was quite far to the floor in low rpm's but i wasn't really going anywhere fast but was probably using quite a bit of fuel even at cruising speed or just to even overtake a lorry was hard work and had to build up speed with my foot down quite hard before the car reached it's powerband at 4500rpm then it was safe to overtake. since bypassing the valve on the underside of the inlet manifold i no longer have this problem, i can be driving along in 4th gear at around 50 behind a lorry and then pushing my foot down the car picks up and goes and i'm hitting 80mph pretty sharpish! this is good for me and i feel it was the best FREE mod i've ever done to the lexus because i like power on tap and i feel i have more control over the power it gives rather than letting the car think for a minute and then get up and go. it may be a good idea for you to try this and just see if you save any fuel just driving normally the way that you do now, with maybe even less throttle opening to say 40% instead of 60%, i can't say if it will help you or not but it's up to you try it out, if it don't work just connect the pipes up again and you'll be back to exactly how it was before.

remove the pipes and then plugging the pipes then refit them to the intake and the valve, works a treat! no more waiting for the revs to slowly build up and then at 4500 it goes like a rocket, i can over-take quickly and smoothly blasting from 50-80 with no issues :D

i wouldn't ask any mechanic to do anything at the moment, i've been using the obd2 connected to my laptop and reducing the temp by 1 degree after a week or so or driving, it still isn't quite right on cold mornings it has some starting issues, i wouldn't do anything just yet. i'm not satisfied yet.

hmmmm nothing, would be nice to know the voltage at closed and fully opened.