MY 01 GS300 Going Manual Now!
Well, Adam left with a big smile on his face today, then called to say that he was kicking a Lingenfelter Corvettes's *** with 3 people in the car when the used OSG clutch started slipping.
The car is a real animal, but very easy to drive under light load/around town -The six speed's gear ratios with the GS430 rear are perfect! Clutch has a soft, progressive pedal, and we have worked out some tuning/drivability issues with the 1000cc injectors.
Adam, Told you I was nervous about that clutch... Gimme a call Monday.
The car is a real animal, but very easy to drive under light load/around town -The six speed's gear ratios with the GS430 rear are perfect! Clutch has a soft, progressive pedal, and we have worked out some tuning/drivability issues with the 1000cc injectors.
Adam, Told you I was nervous about that clutch... Gimme a call Monday.
lol....glad u got mostly everything worked out though u two
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Lead Lap
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Hey guys, yea the GS300 is back home! Man it's so much fun, I recently picked up a 8,000 original mile Supra 6 speed and thought hard about keeping it and selling the GS300 off but I couldn't bring myself to do it, I just plan to resell the Supra for a profit and keep the Lexus. I don't know what happened when we installed that 6 speed but the car now accelerates much quicker, it never spinned the tires like it does now, those 285's on the rear just don't get traction at all through 3rd gear. I have to replace the rear stock brakes today as they're down to the metal and play with the tune for around town driving. But right now I'm very happy with the feel of the car at 1.2 Bar on pump gas, it's an animal! 
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Yea will nothing wrong with buying a used clutch, I should have bought the rebuild kit for $800.00, thats the next thing, I have a lift so it only takes 3-4 hours to change the clutch out. It hasn't slipped on me today, It only slipped on the highway with 3 big guys in the car, I need to run it with just me in it and see how it does.
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The Supra is such a low mileage clean example I couldn't bring myself to modify it, for a 16 year old car it's like new. With that said I won't be happy with a 400HP car, so the Supra will go and the Lexus will get a cosmetic makeover. Mechanically is 99% done, I still need to do the IAC motor, install my clutch rebuild kit hat I just ordered, and a few other small things. In not too long I plan to pull the motor, paint the car black with the motor out and chrome / polish the engine bay as well as coat the turbo kit / downpipe. I also have a double DIN LCD touchscreen / GPS to install.
Unbelievable Adam!!! Hypothetically if someone said for $6K they can do a complete 6MT swap in my GS4 I would definitely choose this OVER FI!!! The car does make plenty of power - just utilize that power better. Many miss this point and just throw more and more money at the engine (power). There are more ways to skin a cat! lol
Keep up the great work!
Keep up the great work!
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Unbelievable Adam!!! Hypothetically if someone said for $6K they can do a complete 6MT swap in my GS4 I would definitely choose this OVER FI!!! The car does make plenty of power - just utilize that power better. Many miss this point and just throw more and more money at the engine (power). There are more ways to skin a cat! lol
Keep up the great work!
Keep up the great work!
Last night I went for pizza and the tires broke free doing 80MPH in 3rd gear, I'm not ready to buy new tires just yet.
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I would love a Supra, but sheeeiit, lets face it. You are basically driving a 4 door supra, just as pimp as a Supra, well not as pimp. But like you said, I would baby the hell out of an 8k Supra, but not so much my GS3. Either way bro, YOU can't lose!
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It's been awhile since I updated this thread, my car was dyno'd at 630 RWHP at 24 psi, I was really happy with that power on stock head / intake, I finally got all of the bugs worked out and it's running really nice now with the cold start / IAC tuned perfect. Today I decided to tear down the engine and replace the water pump as it's making some noise, while I'm in there I'm going to change the valve stem seals and clean up the engine / chrome / poilish just about everything while I have it all removed.
