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not exactly, the poor engine was sucking in unfiltered air, notice how there is no gasket aroun the filter in the pic? thats because the gasket that was on it turned to dust when i touched it. i literally had to vaccuum it out of the bottom of the airbox. so it was sucking in dirty air for mrobably the last 100,000 miles, im amazed it still runs as good as it does. the motor/trans has NEVER told me no when i tell it to do something. and thats the way i like it. :D 99lsguy, im not sure how it is on an LS but on an es, you dont have to remove any vaccuum hoses to get to the intake, only the big rubber intake hose. ← Well then, at some point in its life there had to be a high pressure drop across the filter. God only knows what all happened over that period of time. I do hope it's all better now. ← been 197 mile snow, just not quite to a half a tank yet...so far so good.:whistles: :D ← Good deal.

Would you buy a house from some seediy looing dude in a Yugo? I'd prefer someone who look successful.

Sour grapes boys. Bush won by the first clear majority since 1988. He also carried in the biggest party increase in congress since 1936. You all just gotta learn to live with it. Here's your TS card, good for a free visit to the chaplain.

not exactly, the poor engine was sucking in unfiltered air, notice how there is no gasket aroun the filter in the pic? thats because the gasket that was on it turned to dust when i touched it. i literally had to vaccuum it out of the bottom of the airbox. so it was sucking in dirty air for mrobably the last 100,000 miles, im amazed it still runs as good as it does. the motor/trans has NEVER told me no when i tell it to do something. and thats the way i like it. :D 99lsguy, im not sure how it is on an LS but on an es, you dont have to remove any vaccuum hoses to get to the intake, only the big rubber intake hose. ← Well then, at some point in its life there had to be a high pressure drop across the filter. God only knows what all happened over that period of time. I do hope it's all better now.

Got coolant r in the oil or oil in the collant? That would be the head gasket. That would also be the source of the white smoke.

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That's called nibbling, tending to follow road imperfections. Some tires are worse than others. Some ulltra high performance tres will be worse than standard tires. When you went to 20" wheels, your sidewalls got stiffer, and that's also going to lead to more nibbling. You've also probably increased unsprung weight with those monster tires, and that's going to affect handling as well.

Please remind your royal inbred monarch that she cannot resume something she never had duties over in the first place. Also please remind her hindness that a rag tag army of stupid colonists, who came here to get away from European oppression, beat the hell out of your finest red coated British army way back when. You might also remind her that we are still stupid and we like it. Yours in liberty and good humor, Bartkat Member SAR. PS. If you wish, I can foward letters of reply to those Brits who wrote letters to people in an Ohio town trying to influence our recent election. :D :D

Oh, I thought someone might be able to recommend a specific site with a good price and good service.

http://www.pr.streetracing.org/whats_new.html ← wow i had no idea this car was that fast??? in fact i have a funny story... one of my friends is trying to convice me to buy a type II acura legend from him. its a 95 6speed sedan but im willing to sacrifice the 6speed for something that is faster, better looking, lower milage...well i could go on...ill just say that this car is defiantly in my heart right now :) and thank you for the helpful links ← From reading up on this, it does seem the GS400 is pretty quick in stock form. I added a couple more links above. I have a 2002 IS300. Now I want a GS400 too. Here's an interesting review. http://www.mtdemocrat.com/auto/lexus111998.shtml

http://www.pr.streetracing.org/whats_new.html http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/ge...tml#comparison4 http://metawire.org/~nomel/car_times_quartermile.htm

Cool. The poor engine was being suffocated.

$50 to $100 each. I've noticed that the "discount" parts stores around here are starting to carry them. Bulbs should last a long time though, since there is no filament to burn out.

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Unburned fuel, (raw gas) should show up as black smoke out the tailpipe.

Personally, I'd put the injector cleaner in the tank reset the ECU, and then take the car out an run the heck out of it for a couple of hundred miles. Sometimes you just got to blow the soot out of em.

i can almost garuntee that you have the same problem as me, a short in the ebrake handle sensor. the next time the light is on, pull the handle up (not quite to thew first click) and drop it back down, ill bet it goes out. ← That's probably correct, or the switch and lever aren't making phsycal contact.

I love the sounds and smells of a trans scattering all over the track. If I can't get better ET's, I hear that mothballs in the gas tank makes it go faster. Seriously though, with my Firebird, I just brake torque until the tires start to spin and then back off just a little. You kinda have to adjust for track conditions at the line.

anyone do any custom turbo set up's? do you know of any places to get it done? i also want to revert back to one of my original questions, has anyone been able to do a manual transmission swap? or is it just not possible ← If you're going turbo, the best bet is to use a tuner close to where you live. Even though some kits are shippable, there's lots of things that need to be done right to make it work. There are several good units available, but it all depends on where you live as to going straight to the source for install and tuning. As for the SRT intake, it works well, if you are confident in splicing and soldering wires into your ECU.

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Not starting when hot is one of the signs of poor compression.

Bank running lean would be an O2 sensor.

The only thing the G35 has over the IS is engine power. Build quality, materials quality, etc are inferior according to owners reports that I've read.

Glad that helps. Philips acutally makes a replacement D2R bulb that is a higher color temp than stock. It's intended to match an older bulb when a user just wan't to replace one and not both. http://www.lighting.philips.com/in_en/cons...ighting〈=en

HID bulbs shift towards blue with age, so your new ones might actually be more yellow than the used ones on your previous vehicle. A bulb that starts at around 4200K may go up to 4800 to 5000K over time.