any one looking for an ls400 ???

[lukenemma]

just been to see on that's on ebay not mine i mite add. was thinking about getting it my self but no room with buying a isuzu trooper last night dont ask

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1993-LEXUS-LS4...item3a639d5749

[fingers21]

Ooh, looks good! How much work is actually involved fitting the lump into a surf? I am very tempted.

[davec170]

Yeah, someone should start a thread on how to do the engine transplant.

[dannyboy77]

there is a whole section dedicated to that topic further down the home page!

[BUSHWHACKER]

Really???

[gary-r]

golly gosh

[POPEYE]

He dosen't say much about the engine in it! and as it only the engine you'll want i'd ask some questions, see it in the flesh and drive it before shelling out, like the dash in em!

[flounderbout]

Has someone turned the sarcasm filter up too high again?

[BUSHWHACKER]

I don't know what you mean.

[BUSHWHACKER]

He dosen't say much about the engine in it! and as it only the engine you'll want i'd ask some questions, see it in the flesh and drive it before shelling out, like the dash in em!

To be honest Ian, It's pretty difficult to hurt these engines unless they've done an interstellar milage without any servicing. There's a rev limiter built into the ECU which stops you revving it over 6000 rpm. Everything is sensor controlled, any malfunction of any of the sensors and the ECU immediately switches to 'limp' mode.
Even the fuel pump has it's own computer to limit the fuel supply if the engine sensors aren't behaving themselves.
The cylinderheads are non-interference, meaning that should the timing belt snap (and no-one has ever heard of it happening in a Lexus) the pistons won't contact the valves.

Quite a few tuners ditch the standard ECU in favour for a programmable type to get more power out of the engine for turbo or supercharging.

[sbd16v]

To be honest Ian, It's pretty difficult to hurt these engines unless they've done an interstellar milage without any servicing. There's a rev limiter built into the ECU which stops you revving it over 6000 rpm. Everything is sensor controlled, any malfunction of any of the sensors and the ECU immediately switches to 'limp' mode.
Even the fuel pump has it's own computer to limit the fuel supply if the engine sensors aren't behaving themselves.
The cylinderheads are non-interference, meaning that should the timing belt snap (and no-one has ever heard of it happening in a Lexus) the pistons won't contact the valves.

Quite a few tuners ditch the standard ECU in favour for a programmable type to get more power out of the engine for turbo or supercharging.

im really thinking about going for a mtec v4 (megasquirt with some changes) as i can get them cheap, ive heard that you can get a ''crown'' ecu to control the gearbox ? know anything about that.

another thing ive been told is that the gearbox control is actually very simple in that you just need to put a positive to 4 different wires in different sequences to change gear, if thats the case then it should not be to difficult to built a quite simple programable ecu for the box.

[lukenemma]

engine seams good i was thinking of getting it to put in my surf but i'm still off work so lack of fund's to do thinks like that for now he text me 2day saying i could have it for 500 if that helps so he'll probly take 450

[lukenemma]

make that 400 think i'm going for it in a bit unless any1 else want's it i got his number

[Chillitt]

make that 400 think i'm going for it in a bit unless any1 else want's it i got his number

Is it Greeley again?

[lukenemma]

nope and aint even seen him or his truck in a few day's going to pick it up 2night and try and put the engine in my surf me think's