The £100 Lexus
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Got this from a work mate yesterday. He was saying how his girlfriend was fed up of how much time and money he spends on it and she wants them to have her Dads old Rover 25. Said it had to be gone by the end of the week so he was just going to scrap it. I thought hang on that's far to good to scrap so cheekily offered him the £100 the scrappys would have given him.
So what have i got for my money? Well it's a pretty tidy IS200 SE with 3 months Mot left, 160k on the clock, its lowered on 6 month old coilovers with some special camber inducing front suspension arms that make the front wheels look collapsed in. It's got a Jan speed back box and a ridiculous air intake system on it that in sure does nothing to add power. It did have a massive sound system but now has a non working head unit and no speakers. Been an Se it has an Electric tilt and slide sunroof, Half leather heated seats. and some other stuff and it all seems to still work.
So here it is as i got it.
Had to spend the night outside my garage as it was too low to go on my driveway at the front of my house.
So what have i got for my money? Well it's a pretty tidy IS200 SE with 3 months Mot left, 160k on the clock, its lowered on 6 month old coilovers with some special camber inducing front suspension arms that make the front wheels look collapsed in. It's got a Jan speed back box and a ridiculous air intake system on it that in sure does nothing to add power. It did have a massive sound system but now has a non working head unit and no speakers. Been an Se it has an Electric tilt and slide sunroof, Half leather heated seats. and some other stuff and it all seems to still work.
So here it is as i got it.
Had to spend the night outside my garage as it was too low to go on my driveway at the front of my house.
1st priority this morning was to pop the back wheels off and raise the suspension 20mm. coilovers have only been on there since November but were seized solid. Much WD40 and swearing later and i was able to get it round the front of the house and could once again get my motorbikes out of the garage.
Next i began to De-Barry it a bit by removing the Black film on the lights and replaced an exhaust clamp that had obviously made contact with the road at some point. Gave it a wash as well and it cleaned up rather nicely.
Next i began to De-Barry it a bit by removing the Black film on the lights and replaced an exhaust clamp that had obviously made contact with the road at some point. Gave it a wash as well and it cleaned up rather nicely.
Jonmx said:
That's a billy bargain! I see it went through it's last MOT with no advisories so fingers crossed. And if it doesn't Ebay sees silly money for these even on MOT failure. Good work.
That's good to know as he's lost the current Mot cert. Have every other one with it though. 
Going to do a few minor jobs then punt it out. Not even going to bother driving it as already have a car.
Just been on Ebay and brought a standard air box and the duct pipe. It has some ilaborate pipe work on there now that rubs on the bonnet then leads to a cone filter at the front. Pointless as these have a cold air intake as standard so would have been better off with a K&N panel filter in the original box. Will get pics up of under the bonnet before i change it all back to standard.
Going to do more work on it at the weekend,
Going to do more work on it at the weekend,
Got a bit done today. Sorted the camber issue out. The cambered top suspension arms are adjustable and were set to max camber so have set to the middle setting now. Only done one side as need a tyre on the other side so will take that off tommorow and set the camber at the same time. Also started putting the engine bay back how it should be. Still waiting for the other bits to arrive but the air box came today so stuck that on.Checked everything still works and it all seems to apart from the stereo, even the Air con is still nice and cold. Has Xenon upgraded headlights too.
Before
Thats better
Before
Thats better
Couldn't hear any induction noise and it's only 150 bhp to begin with so needs all the help it can get. The Lexus air box has a cold air pipe that goes just above the rad and feeds in cold air. Probably a sort of ram air when moving so is a pretty good design. Would benifit from a K&N panel filter but that's for its next owner to so if they want.
To be fair the exhaust isn't to bad. It's a Janspeed back box and doesn't look much different to standard. Log book came back on Thursday and I've put the rest of the air box on so it's on ebay now. £300 Start and no reserve. Let er rip tater chip!
Edited by James 33 on Saturday 18th March 15:18
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