franmac

As Gavin G stated, there are three models available here up to 2004

1 IS200 Chenille (base model)

2 IS200 Executive

3 IS200 Sport

This year they added the IS200 SE (special edition),

the same as available in the UK.

so now you're clear Steve.

franmac.

Helix make probably one of the best clutches on the market.

Used a Helix paddle clutch in a competition car for years with absolutely no problems. Excellent clutch.

franmac

Mine look exactly the same as this.

I'm using Zee's X-White bulbs from a group buy a few months ago.

franmac

Slow to get going OK ..... but get it up between 60 and 110 and it goes like a good thing. We can't have it everyway ....... or can we ???

franmac.

Did you not know .... the police can do no wrong !!!! .......

I'm sure wilo's story or stories like it could be repeated over and over, up and down the country. I don't think you should be all that surprised by the attitude he encountered.

franmac.

Have you any power in the car at all ? Sounds like a main fuse blown or something like that ......

franmac

Nearly sure if you press the "lock" button on the key TWICE within a couple of seconds it disables interior sensor. Hazards flash 5 times.

franmac.

Anyone know why my fuel gauge would have a mind of its own.

When driving the gauge doesn't move. When ignition is switched off and on again I get the correct reading i.e. it has dropped down the gauge.

When it is filled to the top it reads correctly, when ignition is switched off the needle seems to settle somewhere different every time. As far as I can remember it used to drop to the bottom when ignition was off.

Don't know whats going on ......

BTW does the low fuel warning light get its reading from the gauge or is it a separate system ?

franmac

Hi Ross,

You have e-mail.

franmac

Says a guy caught it IN the stadium ..... surely that can't be right !!!!

franmac

http://www.bargains.co.uk/navigate.php3?iid=943874&cid=2439

£568 including tyres and locking nuts.

franmac.

I think they should hire Petter Solberg for the job !!!!!!!!

franmac.

I think... strictly speaking its the "Swept Volume" rather than the the actual internal size of the cylinder bores... At least thats what my old man used to say (he was an engineer and worked on ****el engine design of all things!)

this page explains it briefly... http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/3DVG/node31.html

Thats why you measure the stroke of the piston, and not the depth of the cylinder.

You are not measuring the size of the cylinder, only the air displaced by the piston moving within that cylinder.

Hence its called swept capacity.

franmac.

The length of stroke of the piston multiplied by the bore of the cylinder multiplied by the number of cylinders.

i.e. the amount of air displaced by the pistons moving in the cylinders.

franmac

Include me, subject to seeing pics.

And the extra postage to Ireland is ???

franmac.

I'd like to see that as well ..........

PM'd you Chris.

franmac

Add me in Chris ... platinum ice.

franmac

So they were cheating !!!!!

Not the first time Toyota have been caught cheating in world championship motorsport ........ (rallycars .... turbo restrictors !!!)

franmac

I don't think it's the OEM cruise control.

It's an aftermarket.

Yep its aftermarket, but works perfectly well.

If you PM RedLexus I'm sure he'd be happy to help.

franmac

RedLexus has cruise control fitted to a manual IS200

franmac.

Oil Filter Pat No. is

90915-20003

and costs €10 from any Toyota Dealer.

Was charged €24 (once !) from my local Lexus dealer for the very same filter !!!!

franmac

Gearbox noise is the input shaft bearing and is reasonably common with the IS gearbox.

Nothing to get overly concerned about.

franmac.

An inflatable pupil goes to his inflatable school and is having a really bad day.

Bored in his history lesson he gets up and walks out. Walking down the

corridor he sees the inflatable headmaster walking towards him and he pulls

a knife out and stabs him. He runs out of the school.

As he gets outside he thinks again "I hate school" and pulls his knife out

and stabs the inflatable school. He runs off to his inflatable home.

Two hours later his inflatable mum is knocking at his inflatable bedroom

door with the inflatable police. Panicking, the inflatable boy pulls out the knife and stabs himself.

Later on in the evening he wakes up in the inflatable hospital and sees the

headmaster is in the inflatable bed next to him.

Shaking his deflated head more in sorrow than in anger, the headmaster

gravely intones :-

(wait for it)

"You've let me down, you've let the school down but, worst of all,

you've let yourself down"

WHY? .....................WHY NOT ? ........

franmac