wow....very nice!

 

It cracked a while ago and since it's down and the cowl had to come off anyway, it seems like the right time to do it.

Yeah, lol.

Thanks, connected the TechStream to it last night to do a health check and figure a few things out. More to come!

Jeff

 

Well a couple major milestones have been passed today. After filling all of the fluids and bleeding the clutch it fired up first try! I even managed to drive it inside the shop a bit! It's slowly coming together! After driving the car a bit I think I will need to adjust the clutch pedal a bit as well.



See it in action in this super lame/awesome video!


I'm getting so excited to be able to properly drive it and feel what the car should have felt like from the factory.

Jeff

 

 

This is awesome! Good job and congrats

 

Pretty unreal to hear that it fired up with no issues the first time. Congrats! Can't wait to hear about it on the road.

 

The perfect new year gift to yourself Jeff!Did you get the Ecu from Japan already?Is it ready now?

 

This is perfect!!!
I just started looking into these cars and realized I wanted a manual but with 300+ HP.
This is great!
I joined this forum because of this thread.

 

The option Lexus never gave us !

The IS350 is already kickass to drive with the Autobox.. I could only imagine how the 6 speed must feel giving you full use of the engine.


Please do a review or a VIDEO review of the car.

 

hey jeff like your post, i have a is 250 manual trans, I'm in the uk, birmingham to be exact, i want to do the swap, my friend is sourcing a is 350 engine right now and just wanted to know if you can help with the ecm, of course if you charge i would pay, I'm doing the swap myself as have done a couple of toyota swaps in the past so I'm up for it. what do i need to do to get this running?

 

What year is your 250?If it's 06 like mines you need all the VDIM ecus also to make it run.I m in Athens Greece and I really want this swap also but the best thing is to find a reck 350 and swap everything!If yours have VDIM of course it's a lot easier.If you don't mind me asking how much will an IS350 engine cost ?

 

its 2007 is 250 and i source a coupe engines in the USA between $1800 to $3500, whats VDIM? and does my car has it? what will i need to make this work?

 

thanks for your reply, mine is 2007 and does it have this VDIM?

 

Unfortunately I think it doesn't my friend.VDIM is an Ecu that controls all the car ecus or something like that but all IS350 has it so in order to make this swap work Jeff told me that the car should have it.The 250s started having VDIM from 2008 I believe.Jeff wasn't sure if it s really needed but I wouldn't try it if I wasn't sure.It still can be done but you have to find everything from a VDIM and take out the dashboard to install it.If 350 was an option in Europe it would be easier to find a wrecked one and swap everything from it.You may have better knowledge my friend if you have done other swaps I m just trying to help because I really want to do this too !

 

will sell this one and get a 2008 model and up, i won't let that stop me. guess the i would only need the engine and the ecu