CrailLoser

Its in the autotrader, I think its about 68000 miles, full Lexus service history and all the paperwork to prove it, both the 20" chrome wheels and 19" wheels all with good tyres, £11000. I cant fault the car, it has a scratch about 3cm by 3mm right on the very edge of the N/S front wheel arch that I will be painting before it goes other than that the car is faultless and I mean that. Both myself and its previous owner liked to send it away every two weeks for a full valet so when I say its a "clean" car believe me, its spotless :D Thanks for the offer of the SCis200, I had the good fortune to play in a TOMs turbocharged Is200, was fun :) The Saab estate is for the wife, I have had a hankering for a NSX for a while and I think this is the year I will go for one

My Lex sits on the 20" rims fine and thats with springs, it will scrub at the front if you hit a big dip at speed but thats the only time. Remarkably the 20"s have little effect on the overall comfort of the car either. Anyway, unfortunatly its for sale as well, got myself another dog for Christmas and need an estate :-( Be sad to see it go, as some of you know I took the Lex as a trade in against my old car and against all the odds I realy fell for the Lex, its a great car.

Another winner for Motec then ;-)

We have one close to us that produces (alledgedly but I recon it prolly is) close to that figure, certainly its guestimated over the 1000hp anyway. It doesnt run anywhere near those times best its ever ran is 9.9 but I have never seen it run close to that time, generally high to mid 10s. To go from a 10 to a 7 second pass is some achievement, its a different world. For me personally the engine is fair doos but its the car thats making the difference. Lot of lightweight panels, rear tubbed end is just excellent and I will guess its still running a race auto box. Never personally had any doubts about the Supra block being up to the job just was never convinced the Supra was the car to put it in :P I am not a big fan of driving them, its like looking out of a letterbox and the car handles like a tank. Now a Supra engine in a Lex, well thats a different story and it looks like a wining formula :) ;)

It must be there or thereabouts to run those sort of terminals, excellent effort.

Intresting project, the carbon work and tubbed rear end are very well done. NigelF, if you see this that is the R32GTR that Tynadago has been working on, belongs to another Marc ;-) Was seen running against a supra on the GTR forum last week, not a great first run for the guy .... 11s I think but its got the potental to run the 9.

You have my envy Nigel, Pod looked like a great day very upset I was to busy to attend. Apart from watching the Skylines ...... I was kinda looking forward to the long drive down in the Lex :P

Yup, mine does that as well, its just like a portion of the digit is missing, its a common fault on vauxhall clocks and it was generally considered that the screen had "burnt out". Whats weird about the Lex is that at times the missing portion seems to reappear which would put paid to the "burnt out" theory. Its more like certain configurations of the figure of 8 LCD digit are unable to be displayed whilst in radio mode. Much weirdness, I cant think of any good reason why that would be the case.

My 300 is close to 66K, I will plug the scanner in and data stream the sensor then do a before and after test and see if there are any voltage changes. Actually, I will do a run with wideband on and log it then do the same with the AFM cleaned and see how it works out. If you are seeing the results as you say then its got to be worth a try :) I will post up the results towards the end of next week as I am moving building this week but as soon as I get a chance I will give it a try.

I wouldnt recomend it with a hot wire MAF, sorry to disagree but we used to get this all the time with the Skylines as well. The whole point of the hot wire type of AFM is that the sensor wire is heated to burn off the oxidsation and contaminants that collect on it. If the AFM was getting to a point that it was prone to contamination we generally found that the AFM was begining to lose resoloution anyway and would be best replaced. Fair enough on the N/A Lex the problem would not be as potentially damaging as it would be on the Skyline but the point still remains. If the AFM is losing resolution the vehicle will be running progressively leaner as the air volume increases and this will have a detrimental effect on fuel consumption. At the end of the day thats only my opinion based on the tests we ran on the Nissan AFMs which do run very close tolerances so by all means give it a bash, it certainly wont be damaging unless the sensor is in a very poor condition anyway. Just be aware that its not a "miracle cure" you may well just be masking over a more significant fault. The Aristo runs a MAP sensor (manifold absolute pressure) basically it detects vacuum and pressure in the plenum and adds fuel accordingly. An AFM, MAS, (Air Flow Meter, Mass Air Flow Sensor) measures the volume of air passing through it and into the plenum and adds fuel accordingly. Both have their own particular benifits and down sides. I didnt mean that to sound like a lecture Colin, far from it, I have read your helpfull guide and am very impressed by it :)

Quality m8 :D They look great together both in silver as well, nice one. I was up at Crail racing today, putting the new driver through his paces in the Skyline and driving the 700BHP MR2 drag car ..... thats a bloody handfull but good fun, it ran a 11.1 today. Should have cracked 10s but it was just to damn slippy, it never had a full run that we didnt have to back off because the tail end was snaking in 4th. I will try and get some pics up sharp style, need to get the wife onto the job ;) she is more computer literate than me :P I was up early to Crail, the journey to it is quite twisty so it gave me a chance to put the Lex through its paces. I found with the stability control off and the gearbox in 4 not D it was quite responsive and moved out well at the rear. Unfortunatly I came up behind a seat cupra, two young guys with two girls in the back. They decided to up the pace a bit and the GS was well up for the task, unfortunatly however the driver of the Cupra was not ...... I knew he was going to loose it before he did so backed off but unfortunatly this just seemed to egg him on more. Inevitably it happened and he highsided the car on a s-bend, after playing pinball with the verges and totalling the car (he was lucky it never rolled) he came to rest. Fortunatly everybody was ok but it was a lucky escape for them, just basically the driver overestimating his own ability and that of the car, shame none the less. I guess he was baseing his speed on the fact that I was still with him so obviously he could go faster , I guess we all have to learn the hard way sometimes. Must admit the Lex is growing on me more and more, its not a sportscar in any shape or form but it is enjoyable to drive. Finding it hard to find fault with it, it does what it was designed to do very well indeed.

Turnos out its already got Eibach springs on it after all. Had it two days .... first impressions?! To be honest I really like it, it just couldnt be any more different than the Skyline but thats not a bad thing. I loved the Skylines power and looks but they were also its downfall on the road. The triple plate clutch was just a nightmare to use at times and the car was so low you had to watch ever bump in the road. The Lex is great, for the first time in years I actually went out a drive and came back more relaxed than when I had left, thats simple something that would not happen in the Skyline Lex gets a lot of looks as well especially with the big rims which surprised me as well oh and for the first time in ages I can put a CD on and actually hear it, the sound system is excellent B) Put up a couple of pics, old and new. The Old Hang on will need to upload some pics

Cool, on the case now :-) series two it is

Sorry to appear dumb but I have just got my Lex. Its a 1999 GS300 Sport .... is that a series one or two? If its a one then I would be up for a set as well :)

Over £600 for a cambelt change ........ you lot are having a larff :D