MY RIDE! A 1993 Lexus SC 300 With a 1JZ-GTE
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MY RIDE! A 1993 Lexus SC 300 With a 1JZ-GTE
Let's step into the garage of Club Lexus member ducatisamy and check out his beautiful 1993 Lexus SC 300.
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In every possible way, these cars are the clear winner. Reliability? I’ve never seen a Lexus broken down on the side of the road.
The vehicle was a one-owner car with just about 100,000 miles on the odometer. It looked clean and drove nicely, so what more could he want? Unfortunately, things changed in late July when the block blew out on him. This definitely isn’t a normal thing for these superb rides, but, nonetheless, it happened.
The vehicle was a one-owner car with just about 100,000 miles on the odometer. It looked clean and drove nicely, so what more could he want? Unfortunately, things changed in late July when the block blew out on him. This definitely isn’t a normal thing for these superb rides, but, nonetheless, it happened.
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Lol thats, pretty funny. I hear a lot of people on here going on about the reliability of these cars, but more than half of them are 20+ years old, and gonna start breaking down a ton. I mean it seems like mine is just constantly breaking, and I can't imagine I'm the only one. These are great cars sure, but they definitely have their flaws, and it does kind of bug me when people pretend these, or any other car is perfect or infallible. Everything breaks.
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Lol thats, pretty funny. I hear a lot of people on here going on about the reliability of these cars, but more than half of them are 20+ years old, and gonna start breaking down a ton. I mean it seems like mine is just constantly breaking, and I can't imagine I'm the only one. These are great cars sure, but they definitely have their flaws, and it does kind of bug me when people pretend these, or any other car is perfect or infallible. Everything breaks.
Like most other Toyota/Lexus built cars of this era they have above average reliability, when properly maintained.
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Part of the problem with these cars is they get into the hands of younger people looking for cheap speed. As a result many of them wind up being hacked to death with terribly performed and/or cheap mods and no money left for maintenance. Then it gets sold off and the process repeats. I'd bet a large portion of these cars have 4+ owners by now.
Like most other Toyota/Lexus built cars of this era they have above average reliability, when properly maintained.
Like most other Toyota/Lexus built cars of this era they have above average reliability, when properly maintained.
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As for the cheap speed comment there are a lot of misconceptions as to what you can do with a 2JZ and $1500 worth of eBay turbo kit. I agree that it's not cheap to properly mod a 2JZ, but how many 18 year olds do it properly?
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I look for 1 owner cars that haven't been hacked and have all the indications of having been taken care of. Then I fix what needs to be, from normal age and wear. I've had to fix to many peoples cars that were just improperly done and somtimes unsafe to boot!
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Nice!! Still looking out for a non-molested SC. Seen plenty on Craiglist, but they are either bust up or lowered with some weird looking rims. We have bad roads with large pot holes here and I can't understand how they can ride with such a low clearance and the tires are angled in for more lower stance.
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I just completed the 1JZGTE swap over the weekend and it runs perfectly well. I've replaced all the gaskets, seals, and other usual maintenance - torqued to spec. So far no leaks, no lags. Currently running it with the CX Racing intercooler kit for the stock twins, which required some hose relocation and also Tanabe exhaust. My goal in this was to keep it running for maybe 4 years as my daily commuter. I do plan to change it to manual next year. My family and friends kept telling me to dump it and just get a new car, but I proved them wrong... All done in a condo complex, under the open air, no garage, and with hand tools. Thanks to all the threads from CL, I was able to do this right the first time.
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I just completed the 1JZGTE swap over the weekend and it runs perfectly well. I've replaced all the gaskets, seals, and other usual maintenance - torqued to spec. So far no leaks, no lags. Currently running it with the CX Racing intercooler kit for the stock twins, which required some hose relocation and also Tanabe exhaust. My goal in this was to keep it running for maybe 4 years as my daily commuter. I do plan to change it to manual next year. My family and friends kept telling me to dump it and just get a new car, but I proved them wrong... All done in a condo complex, under the open air, no garage, and with hand tools. Thanks to all the threads from CL, I was able to do this right the first time.
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There are tons of SC300 among other motor swapped cars in Cali and we all have our ways to pass smog. We'll just leave it at that.
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