SmokyMo

its not much benefit, unless you want to correct alignment. I put it on mine to get rid of some negative camber i had after going low. it only has -1/+1 degree so you cant do extreme stuff.

It would be nice if you can document a build thread so other people can maybe use it as a blueprint. Also on suggestions of getting GS... Road Tax would be ludicrous, specially in Ireland. I, myself would be happy with up to 300bhp. I think that ideal number for road car that you can have fun with. People say that stock ECU can handle 7psi of boost with no issues. Also I read that SARD in Japan can provide a tune for EDM ECU, but I havent been able to gather more info on it.

I am also thinking of S/C'ing my car. You can build your own kit which is what most people are doing. and you can only boost up to 7psi safely. I am really happy with my car but it does lack power and I just need a little bit more. However I dont have any mechanical experience so I need to do a lot of reading on how to do it with blowing up my engine. There are couple threads on US forum tho. But I am gonna fit gt86 LSD first then I might start collecting parts for my S/C build.

I have red stuff all round and so far they are good, no complains. Also there is not much dust from them

9.75 will fit no problem at the rear, you might need to roll your arches . Also you will need to strech your tires a bit (you can find a thread of mine somewhere here, to see tire sizes), but nothing extreme. I had rubbing issues rather at the front,, if you going low, you will rub through arch liners, thats a given and will touch the metal around bumper clips. I saw peeps relocating bumpers clips which what I will do too. I fitted SPC cambers at the front and back to fix alignment but front rubbing got worse as a result of that. How mine sits on xxr, they are fairly budget brand so dont expect quality wheels or even paint finish.

Nah, I never said it gives you performance gains... It does nothing in terms of performance. It intercepts the signal from the throttle pedal and feeds altered signal to ecu... It removes the lag between pressing the throttle and actually getting feedback... you can rev match better for example... As I said its good for sprinted drives or if you want to lit up your tires if you into wasting rubber :megaangry: . Hopefully i ll fit an LSD from is300 soon, to improve some handling... I read its pretty much a straight fit, because to be honest the car is pretty boring to drive so I am trying to sprinkle some excitement as otherwise its a great car. Its a very mild stretch, the sidewall doesn't touch the ground at all. If proper size tires were fitted it would look horrible as the tires would come out to much and it wouldn't be "flush" enough with arches appreciate the comment tho lads

I never liked carbon wrapping to be honest so not gonna even bother with it. I think it should work, as its plug and play, as long as the diesel version has the same throttle cables behind the pedal as a petrol one, which I would suspect they are. Maybe email them. its only good for "sprinted drives" or a bit of messing around. The "eco" modes are a bit useless to be honest, and its pricey, I think it costed me over 250e.

The car gets more attention than it needs to be honest but thank you Thanks , will keep an eye on ebay, but at the same time don't really want to pay mad money for "cosmetic" parts, I d prefer function>form but there is not much you can do with is250. Cheers man

Bought the IS250 couple months ago as I wanted something more comfortable and more or less modern car to drive. Full service history but needs a bit of TLC. I got it for a good price so I was happy anyway. Coming from Honda scene, IS was a welcoming change.The only downside is that it doesn't have aftermarket support for performance tuning. Maybe in future they will make low comp pistons and crack the ECU so you could boost it properly. I guess for now there not much you can do but drive. Wasnt really going to mod this but I think everyone says the same when they buy a new car. Anyway I ll use this thread to track my progress and ask questions. Also sorry for Iphone pics, I need to purchase myself a camera in a future. When I first bought the car. Didnt really like how the accelerator felt so bought an Apexi throttle controller The Apexi button blends in nice with rest of the dashboard and has OEM feel to it. Very pleased with it altogether Bought a grill but didn't like chrome surround then. So need to pick another one and paint it black to see whether it would look good. Very hard to come by on ebay unfortunately I don't have much cash to spare so have to stick to more or less budget brands. So picked up a set BC coilovers. The car was too high and handled a little like a boat to be honest. Gutted the trunk for easier install this how she looked when coils were installed. So obviously 17s went big or wide enough so I decided to get 18" xxr's since it pretty much the only wheels I could afford in size and offset that i want. Old the saying, you get what you pay for, still stands true. The finish on the wheels is not good quality, but i cant complain. I raised the car a little bit since because I worn through the arch liners at the front and was sick of rubbing noise every time i hit a little bump or pot hole. Have SPC camber kit for front and back on the way so we ll get camber sorted and get proper alignment done soon. Hopefully will sort the intake and exhaust by the summer then I ll be on the look out for black leather interior, maybe ill be lucky and find one in a scrap yard. I would also love a black headliner from and fsport. Anyway, I ll be scanning the forum for some knowledge in the future. Peace