Originally Posted by bambbrose
great member over the last few years. I remember the motegi's and your first build. Doesn't seem that long ago now that I think about it.
THe new car is beautiful. My friend as the exact car, color and everything, but he's boosting 12psi
trust me, you want to boost it with a quick spooling turbo, it'll makes that car actually pull really good
I'd love to turbo it, but the warranty is important to me right now.
Originally Posted by syked
wow. beautiful man. and you continue to have great taste with the purchase of the lexus.
hahaha. i remember you made a post with all your modifications to your civic, specifically your engine mods... i copied and saved it planning to use it as a reference/suggestion for engine mods i may want to do. i still have it
take care bud.
thanks man!
Glad I could give you some info. :goodjob:
Originally Posted by nevets
WCS the ricer :chuckles:
never knew you hit 457 whp in the civic. awsome dude.
the IS300 is a fun car to drive :thumbup:
Ya, I know. I'll never live down my past, but I gained a great deal of knowledge from everything I did with the Civic. Thanks for the reply Steven.
Originally Posted by Jafro
Good Lord, Josh... in 6 short years, your civic got more time on jackstands than some of my garage-queen DSM buddies. I sold my civic and nobody's told me to go away yet, so don't be a stranger. It's always been fun talking shop with you, and you know you're not going to stop.
Man, that IS300 is going to be SICK when it's boosted. :chuckles:
Edit: Oh yeah... your Civic always impressed me. I might have been a tad quicker in the 1/4, but I'm a LoOoOoNg way off from a dyno slip that looks anything like your$. You earned my respect. :thumbup:
Thanks Jonathan! You've been a great friend as well. I'll probably loom a bit, but I doubt any IS300 DIY's will be much good here. :chuckles:
Originally Posted by Running925
i'm really sad to see this post, i'm glad that you did throw that up here tho!
I've learned a lot from you & have been inspired to keep working on mine even when the wiring hell was happening over last winter.. Thanks for all that you have contributed to this board & always being around to answer those odd ball questions that i've had. I'll definatly miss seeing you around here all the time.
on a more positive note, congratz on your new purchase.. & your lucky that your so well liked or some mod would have tossed this to the basement
I'm glad I could inspire you, Tony. I just hope you get everything working at one point or another.
I actually was trying to decide if I should put this in the basement or not, but this is where my roots are so I left it here.
Originally Posted by JoePannone
awesome josh, never thought you would end up selling the ferio, but you gotta move on. so why did you end up getting the auto IS? are you going to take it to the dealer to have it serviced or are you going to do some of the things yourself? i word of advice if you do decide to do oil changes yourself, make sure the engine is cold when you change the oil because the oil filter is right under the intake manifold and you can easliy burn the hell out of your arms trying to wrestle the filter out of that tightness. if you want to know what they do for the services at the dealer just PM me and ill let you know if they havent told you already. have fun with the car and god speed man
I will do some things myself. I like the fact that Lexus keeps a database of the services done on the car for resale. They're very accomodating. I feel like a freakin' star when I go there. Valet parking, 'sir' this... 'sir' that, and much more. It's a whole different world! Thanks for the tips, I'll keep it in mind.
Originally Posted by CPL
Congratulations on your new purchase. Must have bought it at a steal being a 2005.
I remember my 1st encounter with you.It's when you saw a pic of my car and made a comment about the wing I had. I never replied to your post even after clicking on the link in your sig. Saw the pics of your car and was like
WTF " This guy is living in 1995." However , you finally woke up and created something that most of us can only dream of.
Once again , Congrats! Good for you that you were able to move on , unlike me where I have to wait awhile.
wow, thanks man. I appreciate knowing what you thought.
I wish you the best on getting what you want.
Originally Posted by servion
Damn man, I didn't know your car cas so ricey in the past hahahah, you certainly turned it around! Congrants on the new car, now drop that biatch
Ya, you know.
Anyone need tuning, this is the MAN!
Originally Posted by Wharbone
For you IS300, I think some of the "smoked" Lamin-X film (
http://www.lamin-x.com/ ) would look pretty sweet on your front and rear lights, plus it would protect them.
Interesting stuff. I've actually been looking for some Sport tails cause they have the smoked chrome, which I think would look great on this car. I'm going to wait a bit till my finances settle down before throwing money into mods. More to come.
Originally Posted by HatchVX
its sad to see it go but it good to see that its staying in the HAN family. Josh u have inspired me to build up my GSR and try to hit the 450-500 HP mark. I hope u stay around to help me out. Good luck man, i know that your gonna to get hit by the boost bug. It will be nice to see the IS build up.
Thanks Pat. I really hope you hit your goals. Just be smart about it and I'm sure you'll get there. Lemme know what I can do.
Originally Posted by qtiger
You'll always be the rice king to me Josh.
I aim to please. :chuckles:
Originally Posted by dnt94civic
Hey Westcoaststyle,
You had a nice civic there, and I remember when it was all riced out.
But it always feels nice when you get a new car. Me and my girlfriend both felt the same way about our civics and how it was time to move on. My girl traded her civic for an IS as well, but in white.
She had to wait almost 2 months for hers, because she wanted white w/ a black interior and navi. Oh, this jsut reminded me of when we were looking around for her car, and one dealership had a white one with black interior, but no navi. The salesman was a joke, and tried to convince her the Lexus' navigation sucked and that she shouldn't get it because she would lose one of her cupholders. We immediately walked out.
Anyways, it's a great car with great stock suspension. I drive her car sometimes, but one thing that I really don't like, is how the shifters are on the steering wheel, and how you can only go down to 2nd gear.
As for myself, I was lucky and I didn't have to sell my civic to get my dream car, a 2000 CLK430
. Although I should since I haven't driven it in about 6 months. Anyways, congrats, and have fun with your new ride.
One mod that I would do to the IS, is to get the black chrome emblems. They would look sick on your color.
Ya, I don't get the 2nd gear thing...
Nice choice on your CLK. Very nice car and I understand why you're not paying much attention to the Civic.
I've thought about the black chrome emblems. I totally agree with you. :yes:
Originally Posted by FyReo3
Build is done and running. Just breaking it in and tuning. I am having some overheating problems due to massive intercooler blocking airflow to the radiator. Other than that, it is running strong.
Wow, looking good Mitchell. That manifold is quite nice, good job on the fab work! :eek3:
Keep me informed on the updates. I can't wait to see what she makes.
Originally Posted by Bumnah
about time you learned that you can't polish a turd.
Indeed. :chuckles:
Did you ever get your MR2?