AB_

I was talking to my friend, who seems to have a lot of knowledge on cars and what not. I told him that my car lacks horses.. which we all know is true. He went home, did a little research, and then shot me some links.

http://www.lextasy.com/is250-headers.htm

http://stores.ebstores.us/items/item...itemid=4023469

http://www.autoanything.com/performa.../10A50207.aspx

What do you guys have to say about this stuff?

tfz_hebe89

iTrader: (1)

why didnt u get IS350 in the first place?

AB_

The is250 was a gift to me for my 17th Birthday.

passnu2

iTrader: (33)

i would check out the Mazzuri super headers thread, megan has a nice race mid pipe out that you can find on ebay, then you can do pretty much anything for the axle back, I personally like the Tanabe for sound and looks.

Thats what i would do! Dont expect crazy numbers out of this car! It will help, sound great!, and look much better

ndk83

options 1 and 2 are good, but also check out the mazzuri headers as well. As for the 3rd option, no one has managed to crack the encryption for an ecu re-map so u can forge that option (for now)

rdgdawg

Yeppppppppp.... and you can always look to make your own custom exhaust...

Kurtz

iTrader: (1)

If you don't mind dropping a couple grand to make the car much louder and not much faster you can put on an intake and exhaust.

The mazzuri headers are the only mod I've seen for the 250 that offer anything approaching decent bang for the buck (around $30 per horsepower if you do your own labor, $40 per otherwise)... everything else is like $100 per horsepower... which is horrible considering the cost difference between the 250 and 350 only works out to about $50 per horsepower.


The bad news is, if your car is in one of the emissions inspection areas in VA you will fail inspection with the mazzuri headers becausse they delete the primary cats.

AB_

Well after reading the Mazzuri header thread I read about getting custom cats just to pass emissions..

Kurtz

iTrader: (1)

Yup, that -might- work

You'll need to find an exhaust shop willing to do it. The additional cost may or may not push the bang/buck equation into the realm of worse than trading up to a 350.

Then you'll need to find an inspection station who isn't aware that federal law makes it illegal to change the location of your cats (which this would be doing).

That last part should be -relatively- easy from the places I've seen though, as most seem to just verify the correct number of cats appear to exist.

Lextasy89

you just need to get the mazzuri headers.. and a joez

SeOuLiS250

iTrader: (5)

maybe you can ask for G37, BMW 335 or IS-F for your 18th Birthday??

J/K

headers+exhaust+intake will make you feel some difference..but not much..

wish someone could buy me a car for my birthday..LOL

CrazyIS

AFE Intake
Tanabe Exhaust
Mazzuri Headers
Made My car alot more fun.
I hate people that say why didn't you get a 350, Why didn't you get a 350.
Go to hell with your 350
Not everyone can buy the top of the line car off the lot. There are so many reasons why 250 owners buy a 250. Power is not always the primary factor when buying a car. That doesn't mean we don't deserve the right to try and pump out a few more horses with mods.
Anyways this is for another thread.

Enjoy your 250. I love mine.

DropTopGal

IMHO...>The money spent to "pump out a few more horses" on the IS250 would have been better spent on a stock IS350. BTW...beyond the intake and exhaust, one who mods runs risk of having the warranty void.

There is another IS250 mod that "pump out a few more horses"...> OAR, four of them that can be manually activated when the the windows are in the down position. Here is the OAR link:

http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/TRB1382.jpg

Enjoy your modded IS250!

mazzuri

In the long run the is250 will be a car that people will modify a lot more than the IS350 and it will be much faster for less money.

ndk83

care to elaborate on how thats possible?