Gs400 won’t do a burnout. I’ve owned 2 Ls400s before this and my favorite thing to do was milky burnouts. But when I hold the brake and the gas at the same time, the engine won’t rev above 2k. I have the vehicle stabilization control off, and it’s really disappointing being cockblocked everytime I try to do a burnout. Please help

 

Gs400 won’t do a burnout. I’ve owned 2 Ls400s before this and my favorite thing to do was milky burnouts. But when I hold the brake and the gas at the same time, the engine won’t rev above 2k. I have the vehicle stabilization control off, and it’s really disappointing being cockblocked everytime I try to do a burnout. Please help

 

I'll be glad to help. No offense, but start thinking like an adult......and treating your vehicle accordingly. All you do, with burnouts, is destroy your tires and abuse the drivetrain.

 

Wasn't this a feature Lexus added after the "unintended acceleration" recall? When the brake is pressed, it also cuts engine power? This is what happened to my IS250 after the recall (not that I was doing burnouts....)

 

Can't speak for the later ones, but the original IS250 simply did not have the power to do a real burnout.....only 186 ft-lbs. of torque.

 

Thats exactly what it is

 

Have you tried pressing the TC Off button once (without holding it down) to temporarily disable TC? Otherwise, I'm sorry to say it, but without an LSD or a slick surface, it won't be a nice burnout anyway. It may be a one-wheel peel at best.

 

Year? As stated you may have a software limit of some sort but the newer ones totally turn off the engine so I'm not sure.

It should have enough power to roast them, I could do so in my 430 with good tires so even if you have an older gs it still should

 

You said it. Never understood the need to abuse a car like that, especially a nice one such as a GS400.

 

Tires are too expensive for me to want to do burnouts. My truck will do em, but I also paid $1,200 for my tires so no thanks.

 

Best way to send off an old set is to fry em lol!

 

The solution is pretty simple, find the rear differential from a GS300 with 3:93 gear ratio to replace the 3:23 ratio that comes in all V8 Lexus from this era. You can usually pick up a nice, low mileage differential for less than $100, and then get the spider gears welded up so your get that nice milky smoke pouring out evenly from both rear tires. It’s not a very hard to do the swap, since it’s a direct replacement. There are plenty of write-ups in the archives. This is really one of the best bang for your buck projects you’ll find on your car. If you really want to get smoky find the rear end from a’93-97 SC300 with a manual transmission, they came with 4;27 gears.

 

And the rpm’s your car revs to power breaking is the stall speed of the torque converter, if you get an aftermarket torque converter like the one Lextreme use to offer, and you could get a looser converter that would rev to 3000 rpm’s and then you would be able to blow the tires off at will, but take a drop in gas mileage as punishment for these shenanigans

 

That was 09-11. This is the 2GS forum, 98-05. The GS400 (98-00) had been out of production for about a decade, and has a cable throttle.

There are plenty of videos of GS400s doing smoky burnouts.

 

Every GS400 came with drive by wire and not throttle cable. And I have never heard of something that reduces power at a certain rpm? The only unintended acceleration problems I remember were from the floor mat causing the gas pedal to jam and that was on the ES300. The engine stops revving when power braking at whatever rpm the torque converter stalls at. I am 100% certain. The easiest way to get a car to do burnouts, getting narrower tires or have a harder rubber compound, throw a pair of Prius rims and tires on the back of your GS, and you’ll be smoking like Joe Camel. Your LS400 probably had some tires designed for a long life span compared to what’s on your GS.