My name is Bryan and I am a proud new owner of a 2005 GS430.
Look forward to learning a lot more about this beast.

 

Welcome to CL.

 

Welcome post the interior as well!

 

Nice! Real nice find, and I want your wheels!! Cant find those anywhere!

 

Welcome to the club, I didn't know the 05 came in a sport design edition.

 

wow thats rare final year + black on black

 

My ideal gs, a last year black on black 430. Very nice car

 

Thanks guys. I'll have to post up some interior shots later as it's locked up in my garage only as collateral until the current owner gets the title back from the bank (I paid for only a portion of this car to pay off his lean, he gets the rest of the $ when the title comes and I get the keys). Its preforated black leather (sport design). I believe the sport design items were added after purchase not from the factory on this car but I am not 100%. Either way, it has the appropriate fender emblems, ashtray, shift **** and seat fabric. Yes the chrome wheels were factory optioned on this car! I work as a tech for Lexus so I can look up all of this stuff. Lucky for me this car has had all ball joints replaced, strut rods, front control arms, timing belt, water pump already replaced! 111k miles. It still needs some work but nothing I can't handle in a few days.

I have a couple questions, some that I should know but will ask anyway:

How can I tell if the car has had the L-Tuned steering ECU? How would I go about getting it done? This is something I will ask when I go back to work tomorrow.

I'm interested in getting PPE headers and the Injen intake. I noticed on their respective websites it only lists the headers to work on up to 2004 and for the intake up to 2003. Is this just something that hasn't been updated or is there a real reason why these wont work for a 2005 model?

 

Welcome, nice car. I think you may teach this site some lesson since you are an inside guy. Hope to learn from you. Thanks for joining.

 

I have lots of info to share! ASE Master tech, Toyota and Lexus certified!

 

No need to look for the L-tuned steering ecu for it, I forgot from what year they came improved with it stock. Did that car happen to come from California ?
Headers and intake are the same for all GS430 01-05.

 

Nice! My 400 is black on black, thOse colors are hard to find..

 

Thanks for clearing this up! Yes it did come from CA so it has the 3rd cat instead of a resonator, but it will be deleted since I'm in Las Vegas.

 

they don't NEITHER does a GS430 EVER come as a Sports Edition, it was only for the GS300's

all GS430's come with a similar steering ECU as the L-Tuned but its not the same even though its been rumored to be for years. i bought a L-Tuned steering ECU and sold my GS430 ecu after comparing them internally/externally. steering iwas very similar with both ecu's but not the same exactly and i found the L-tuned to be better suited to my needs.....

the Sport Designs GS300's have a different steering ecu as compared to most models also though

ALL 2001+ models regardless of where they come from have a 3rd cat....

 

This is all good info. Do you know exactly what the difference was with the Sport Design? Like I said this car has what I thought was everything they come with, minus the ECU. I also figured they switched to 3 cats on all of them at some point just didn't know when but I know on the older non-CA models had a resonator instead of a cat.