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They are two different cars. The Lexus, while a sport's coupe is geared towards people looking for a more luxurious car. The BMW, won't have as nice of a ride but it will have better handling and depending on the engind you get, be faster. But watch out for the 540i V8's Nikasil and Alusil engine block problems. Make sure its an Alusil (not standard for the 1995 and below 540i's), as the Nikasil will get carbon deposits in it and eventually you will have to replace your engine in it. The 5 series is also a 4-door, so they're really appealing to two different uses and crowds with the two cars. The SC was made to compete with BMW's 8'series early on with affordibility as the 8-series was way way expensive.

That is normal. Mine will idle around 1700 until it starts to get warm. Then drops to about 1300 then 900.

Did you check your fuses?

If I was replaceing control arms with Supra ones I'd do both sides upper and lower, it does change some things and supposedly has a stiffer ride. Theres usually control arms on eBay for $350-$450 too (1 lower control arm). The uppers are not very expensive, its the bottom ones that are.

You should call up your local Toyota Dealership as they always can order Lexus parts and may be able to cut a key for you. I'm not sure if any Toyota vehicles have the same type of key as a Lexus but it never hurt to ask. But a Toyota Dealership can fix your car just as a Lexus dealership can most of the time if one's not availiable.

Only VVti, have an interference motor, thats in 98+, not starting in 95. Its hard to say at all without looking at the engine what the problem could be. The belt could have been it, but it definately didn't bend any valves or anything like that.

THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME TOO!! Its just water in the spark plugs! Youre last 2 spark plugs are in water. Suck the water out with a shop-vac or let it dry over time. Take the plug covers out, etc. DON"T PRESSURE WASH THE BACK!!! Mine is missing the back cover so when it rains hard this happens, but all you have to do is suck out the water and the car will run fine!!! Sometimes you can just drive the car and the engine heat will evaporate the water!! PM me if you have any other questions, this has happend 3-4 times from rain/engine cleaning since i've had the car!! (figured it out after the first time though so its an easy fix now)

Most likely it's coming from your tires. Get them balanced and checked out to make sure you have enough tread all the way around. ← Thanks I will soon be looking into getting the engine & transmission mounts replaced. ← I'd replace the tires, and have your car alighned first, if that doesn't work it could be a wheel bearing.

← 4-6K. ← I HIGHLY doubt 275HP, maybe 255-260 AT THE MOST!!! But yeat 4-6 grand is what i'd expect to get for it...

The wiring is SO different, nobody has even attempted to rewire it And its definately not plug and play.

This happens because the A/C clutch kicks in and the car jolts in power, not electrical but you're ac is belt driven so the car gives itself a little gas to keep the rpm's up in turn lurching you a little bit if you're light on the brakes. You can usually feel this on most cars.

I have a 92 300 5spd and its seems pretty fast to me. 1st gear is short but it pushes me back. The auto vs. 5spd, is about a sec difference in the 0-60, 5spd is supposed to be able to do it in 7sec if you can shift right and launch right. My 1st goes somewhere between 30 and 35, 2nd goes up to 60mph, and I never look at the speedometer after that, just the RPM's so I know when to shift when doing a speed run. I know once it gets to 110-120, it takes FOREVER to get beyond that. My fastest is 137 though. My favorite is the 4th or 5th gear downshift to 2nd when you're between 35 and about 50mph to fly past another car.

Here's my speed in my grandpa's cadillac STS (not the new ones unfortunately, but this v8 still packs a punch)

I've gotten to 137, this only shows 130 however becaue I forgot to send the pic from my phone to the server before I moved it into a different folder. Car felt stable at this speed but would have taken a good minute or two more and 3miles or more of road to get to 145. took about 3 interstate exits to get to 137..gets up to 130 pretty fast.

OBD I and OBD II might be the differences in them, not really sure but if its a different part number it probably isn't going to work.

Are you talking about the ES's or did you click on the wrong forum SK...because the SC is completely upgradable. There is loads of information. You can completely update the exterior to look like a 97-2000. I'm not sure about the steering wheel, I think you can, however it costs a lot to upgrade that part. The exterior body parts are completely bolt on. I don't think you need the rocker panels. What people usually uby is the front bumper, sideskirts, and rear bumper, and taillights. The headlights I think are a different model number, but they are the same thing I believe, either way getting new headlights seems to be something everybody wants for these SC's. However headlights do not differ in design from pre 97 to post 97. The gauge cluster is not upgradable,however OLT can redo the lighting if yours is going out. The gated shifter availiable in the 98's and up is not upgradable without a considerable amount of work and is just not worth it. Search and you'll find some more information on the 97-2000 look.

You can buy a splitter, thats what I do. I have my ipod and radar plugged in at the same time.

You just said the biggest contradiction, you're saying the guy that is dangerous is the one who flew past police at 100, however you then said you have a felony for eluding police at 155mph for 10min. You are a joke in yourself. Glad I don't live by you.

It was a joke, you typed what seemed to be sweatiest instead of sweetest. Anyways I got my SC300 5spd at 17, I first had a Honda Accord. Depends on how much your kid really knows about cars because I do all my own repairs myself and it would have cost a lot if I didn't. BTW, I started out with a 92 Honda Accord.

Had my radiator changed in sept '04 and i see no coolant leaks nor smell any coolant in the engine compartment. My coolant resevoiur is about an inch from being filled to the top. Does it need to reach the very top of the line? ← I know in my car when I had the wrong mixture in it, the coolant would boil out of the top and into the coolant resivour. When the car is cool check the radiator itself and make sure its full, if its not put a mixture of 50/50 coolant and water into it.

In my SC if you overpressurize the system the clutch does not engage either. My car will engage it and then kick it off about 2-3 seconds later. I let some freon out and now it does not do that anymore so maybe you overpressurized it when filling it up with freon.

Many problems: 1) SC400 engine does not fit into SC300 body, engine mounts are very different. 2) 5-spd transmission does not bolt up to the SC400 engine AT ALL, there is no way to do it without heavy modification and I don't think there have been ANY reported people doing this. 3) SC300 engines just don't blow....so good luck

Yeah check to see how much gas you have when you hear the sloshing, then fill it up and see if you still have it.

No you wouldn't as the SC400 engine mounts are different than a 300's engine mounts so you'd have to do some heavy modification to get it to fit. If you put the GTE engine in a 300 then it would drop right in.

The IS300 has the same engine as the SC300 a 2JZ-GE, which is an Inline 6, not a 4 cylinder, it is also shared with the GS300's. It might have something to do with OBDII on the car or the shartened exhauset, etc things like that. The difference lies with the transmission too. The SC's share the Supra transmission, the IS's transmission is shorter and will not swap out with the SC's or Supras transmission. The IS transmissions to not hold HP as well as the SC's trannies do so when you put more power to it they are more pron to failure.