Lex_Lover

How much was the engine replacement?

Just about $1K the Luxury Dealer I bought the vehicle from ending up doing the motor swap for a flat rate of $300 the used engine, new timing belt/ and water pump was around $750. At least the private dealer helped me Corporate Lexus sucks!!!

I would say the SRT Intake is the best for the IS300, it comes with an ecu and there dyno charts say it adds 22hp which is double of any other intake for that car.

If your not going to add a SAFC or emanage SRT is where it's at

I like that feature! I wish PHPbb had that :D

Any women attracts to RX is either very desperated or very stupid. It worths only $40K.

Whatchamacall it?

I just replaced a motor on my 1997 ES300 and the motor was changed fairly frequently. Corporate Lexus declined to pay for ANY repair whatsoever...

LexusLover: What was Lexus Corporate's reasoning behind denying your claim?

They wanted every receipt for the past three years. We were able to dig up about a year and one half. They refused to send a corporate inspector out and come look at it. Come on it only had 74K :chairshot: I replaced the motor and recently sold it.

It seems that the gelling is not a new problem and is something that ALL engines have had ever since the advent of internal combustion. I remember when you could flush out most of the gelling with a product that was called Cisco Solvent. You'd fill your crankcase with it, run the engine for about half an hour, flush it out and fill the crankcase with new oil. It worked great, but I don't know whether this product is manufactured anymore. I'm sure they have other products on the market now though.

That wont resolve the lower end sludge issue only uptop (IRA Lexus and My dealer confirmed this)

I just replaced a motor on my 1997 ES300 and the motor was changed fairly frequently. Corporate Lexus declined to pay for ANY repair whatsoever Basically they said :chairshot: