lexus soarer

[anonymous-user]

Does anyone know much about these curious contraptions? I came across one of these yesterday and it's driver wanted to "have a go", luckily I was on my ZX-12r so there was no problem....could have been different though.

[phrich]

They have a little V8 (4L I think) (or 2.5 turbo) in them but because they are old and therefore cheap they are being tweaked, tuned and turboed to an inch of their lives because they are nearly disposable value.

Generally a nice car and plenty coming out of Japan into AUS, NZ and UK due to Japan's old car rego restrictions.

[mackie1]

Think of it like a big Supra GT. cptsideways uses an 80s model as his drift car. The 2.5l (1JZ-GTE) twin turbo engine is very tunable with big power possible.

Edited by mackie1 on Tuesday 4th September 19:20

[magic919]

Google does : www.lexusclub.co.uk/about.htm

Maybe it was one of the 4 litre ones feeling lucky.

[Doleboy]

Popular car in the drift scene. There's a couple of 1000 bhp turbo upgrades out there aswell.

Probably not the one you saw though

[cptsideways]

Ahaha the stealth machines are getting spotted A bit of a styling oddball but by heck do they go

The 2.5TT's are tunable to 400bhp without much hassle at all & the 600bhp is not difficult either like 3k will get you 600bhp sorted on a standard bottom end. They are cheap to buy which means you can spend cash on making em go - not that they are slow as standard.

Standard 2.5TT's are good for 170 mph with the speed limiter removed which I'm sure is enough for most bikers, its the engine I have in my car (with a mahoosive turbo bolted on) & mine will happily pull the rev limiter in 5th!! geared at 25mph per 1k rpm It also does 12 sec 1/4's with no traction whatsoever & not really trying.

[stevieturbo]

Biggest let down with them all....is they are nearly all autos...

They come as a lazy n/a version too.

Edited by stevieturbo on Wednesday 5th September 01:30

[mackie1]

I'd imagine cptsideways' car is a manual? A supra manual box should drop in fairly easily I'd have thought.

[cptsideways]

mackie1 said:

I'd imagine cptsideways' car is a manual? A supra manual box should drop in fairly easily I'd have thought.

It does indeed, not a super simple conversion but not technically challenging just all bolt in stuff. Toyota only made 280 manual ones, one of which was the donor for my engine & box.