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Originally Posted by CamNub
I claim being the first one to know about the Is. 
I stumbled across his secret. earlier.
It looks great, and that is a GIANT turbo.
Just curious though, is the IS very hard to turbo? I remember Yukio saying that it is a pain in the ass to turbo, and that the 2jz in there was almost a "watered down version", but I've been reading from some IS owners, that it's not that bad...
Edit: Those are some really cool looking tires. The tread pattern is neat. |
Haha, you knew about it the first week I had the car
The IS300 is indeed a lot harder to turbocharge... The front bumper barely has any room to run any piping, the shock towers are a lot narrower than the Supra/GS300/SC300, and lots of small stuff cluttering up everything.
The engine is also a more wimpy version, hence a lot of folks rather do a full GTE swap. The pistons I bet are a lot weaker than the GTE motor, rods and crank are identical though. However, most of the time it is due to the compression ratio, and a common fix would be to put in a lower CR gasket. I do see reliable 400-450 WHP on stock motor; and in terms of my tuning experiences, I see that working out too with factory compression ratio as long as I run 94 oct and water injection
Since my IS300 is auto, the good part about this is that I can just purchase an entire built transmission withoit sending in a core exchange. The trans should be here in a few days
Rated for 600 ft-lbs of torque, but of course, this IS300 is going to be my truly reliable car and I won't be going insane with it. Most of my "budget" for crazy modding is still going into the Camry.
About the Camry, more plans with it later this season
As you can see, the T67 that was in the Camry went to the IS300...hehe
