ridgersIS300

Think I know mimosa - has a big field next to it? What colour is your car, I'll look out for you

Yes mate. Just down the road in Mickleover, on Chain Lane

Just out of interest Mo, where in Derby are you from?

Cough - what illegally spaced plate - cough!!! I used autosmart Tyre Dandy on the tyres. Comes out as a foam and just leave it and it makes them look new again. I also use it on the wheel arches, brings them up brilliant. Also, it works amazingly well in the engine bay!

Can I just ask, when you remove the fuses is there any way of knowing the ecu has been actually reset or do I just assume that it has?

Just done the most thorough clean and detailing of my luuuurvly is300. Took twice as long because of the blummin' rain! Anyhow.... What you all think???

Many thanks

Colin, I think you misunderstand. Im not after extra performance. I'm trying to make the car mine and do the things I wanna do with it whilst I can :-)

Trying to find a local k&n stockist in Derby, anyone know of anywhere? I don't want to order online

Couple of pics of my exhaust....

Have read up a bit more about tuning the IS300 and as a lot have said it is quite difficult. With regards to a turbo, can the stock internals cope? and what would be the FULL cost eg, turbo kit labour, remap etc?

Well, got the exhaust fitted today, I think it looks mint and the sound is just what I was looking for - more of a 'warm' sound than a rasp. Will try and post a pic up later.

Turbo charging doesn't appeal to me at the minute, she drinks enough fast juice without the extra oomph lol!

Does anyone know what gains I would get with a remap? I know it will prob be minimal due to it being a) petrol b ) naturally aspirated. Just want to know if it's worth it or not :-/ I plan to put it on the rolling road anyway over the weekend (just for my own personal pleasure to see how she's doing!) but if I get a remap I would wait for that.

Crikey.... Not anywhere near derby are you? Lol. Seriously though really appreciate the advice

So do you think £240 is a fair price?

Right, that makes sense. So when the middle pipe gets replaced and the silencer removed is that not classed as 'straight through'??

Some great advice cheers guys..... Transporter you are prob right, what do I go in for - an a/c health check or something similar?

I'll try to explain in my best technical way lol, from what I saw the standard exhaust has the front bit where it comes down from the manifold. Then it has like a silencer/muffler then a middle pipe connecting to the back box and tip. From what he told me he will remove the middle pipe and silencer just after the sensor and replace with a straight through pipe and a larger backbox and tip of my choice.

Hope this makes some sort of sense

Right, well settled for a power flow straight through ss exhaust today £240 all in. Chosen a tip with a muffle in it so it won't be too loud. Getting it fitted in the morning so looking forward to it.

Thanks for the offer of coils but tbh I wouldn't really benefit from them :-)

Was thinking of looking at air filter next. Do I just get a k&n filter or a k&n typhoon induction kit, or any other that anyone recommends? Or would a ruddy good service using higher spec parts be just as good? (although it only had one in dec)

Sorry for all the questions

how would I know if the Compressor is starting to seize, would it really cause power loss?

Yeah it had a full a/c service at Lexus about 18 months ago?!?

As the title suggests, I know that a car will generally loose around 10% of power with the a/c on, however when mine is on it seems to loose a lot more. Anyone else experience this, particularly with the IS300??

I'm quite tempted with an exhaust, but I don't want a loud boy racer one. If was to just get a decent back box would I get the sound I'm looking for? Just want to hear the engine through the exhaust a bit more?!?!?

I have about £1k burning a hole in my pocket. Thinking about doing some stuff to my IS300, but don't know what :-/

A bit of background - I have a 2003 IS300 with 104k on the clock, full Lexus service, Cambelt done at 67,000 and she is a peach. The only mods I have done so far are LED sidelights and number plates, 4 wheel refurb - finished in smoked/black/chrome, red painted calipers, grom audio with BT. Also treated the leather several times and got a touch up pen (only £9 all in at Lexus dealer!) but that's about it. Oh and just put a private reg on it and spent about £100 on cleaning stuff lol!

Soooo..... What now??? Would love a nice back box that will show off the puuuurrrr of the straight six a bit more or do I just have lots of little bits like iridium plugs etc etc.....

Help?????????

Ps, replies with prices would be good :-)

Just wanted everyone's thoughts...

Is it me or is the IS quite twitchy in the wet? I can only vouch for my IS300, but when I was coming onto the motorway today from a slip road off a roundabout I put my foot down a bit to build up some speed and the back end came out really easy before the traction control and all the other gizmos pulled it all back in line. Now, I don't think it's my style of driving. I would say its spirited but defo not pedal-to-the-metal. Im wondering if it is the tyres on the car, when I bought it, it had just had 4 brand new ones put on, these were only budget tyres though, thinking of changing em though as this has happened a couple of times.

So... Does anyone else manage to unintentionally get their back end out in the wet, or is it just my crap tyres?????

I'll get a pic up tomorrow, how do these slip on tips fit exactly.... Saw one on a Beemer today and it was sticking out about a foot, looked ridiculous?!