Let's make this official!
 

Greetings all!

So I wanted to properly introduce myself to the community; I was thinking about how selfish I've been as a member of the SC community...I've gotten help multiple times without questions and haven't even posted pictures of the car that you all are helping out! That being said, here's my 1995 SC300 :woot: Future plans/mods are listed after the pictures :cool:


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Well, there you have it. Don't be too critical, and forgive the pictures of my winter-time beast...gotta show love for all the cars :woohoo:

My goals for the car are simple enough:

Standard bolt-ons - Tanabe Medallion exhaust, intake, etc

Wheels - I've been through a huge fiasco with some LS 460 18" ten spoke wheels! The wheels themselves are great but of course the one year the LS bolt pattern changes from 114.3 to 120mm is the same year as the wheels I picked up. The mishap wasn't completely due to my own stupidity though, the seller told me they were GS wheels :mad:

Lighting - HID conversions; low-lights are done, thinking about 3000K for the fog lights. I've read that these fog lights are tricky, i.e. fog housings need to be taken apart and stuff.

Exterior - Thinking about a lip kit later on, but the car is classy enough stock so who knows.

Despite all of these I may decide save my money on the weak bolt-ons and go for the 2JZ-GTE swap, but the car is an automatic and the V160 6-speed that I'd look into getting is just absurdly expensive...does anybody know about if the stock transmission is capable of handling that kind of power, or if there's a tiptronic transmission that would work?

Anyways, thanks again for being such a great resource! As a first-time Lexus owner I've had a lot of rookie questions and haven't felt unwelcome at all in the community. I'm sure this won't be the last time I post...but at least now I feel better about assuming a position in the lowest ranks of the Club Lexus SC world :woot:

Take care!

Thanks for the big write up.

ITSOFFICIAL! haha

The lexus emblem looks damn good in the third pic.
The lighting is nice.

Photoshop should be able to help the SC300 under it (;

Very nice SC!

As far as your 2jzgte swap, I've seen many people swap in R154's that come from MKIII supra's I believe.

R154 should be able to hold the power down granted its in good condition and you don't go for insane power levels where a V160 is the minimum.

Either way, good luck, looking forward to progress!

Welcome! Where in Kansas are you?

the w58 will work with the 2jzgte but you will have to baby it, i mean baby baby it where as r154 will hold its power unless you do 600+hp i think not sure.
You can do mk3 r154 but you'll need to make some adjustments.

Welcome to CL... :D:thumbup:

I'm in Overland Park, how about you? I know I'd remember seeing your car around, so unless you're hiding that monster in a garage somewhere I'd have to assume nowhere near OP?

As for everybody else, thanks so much for the transmission suggestions :) I'll have to start looking into them once I decide where my finances are. The V160 would be so sick (I'm sure ScottURnot can agree) but $6000+!?!? Absurd...

looking good man, welcome!

congrats on the ride and welcome to CL

I am in Hutchinson, I do get in KC from time to time, we need to pull together a meet (when I get my car done).