Question For All Generation ES300 Owners
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you might remember me posting a few months ago about getting a new motor put into my 96ES300. Well, the shop finally got a motor for me, and its a 98ES300 Motor. Will that cause me any trouble down the road, and which one is honestly better?
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Hey, I'm not sure if I posted this here, but I did a motor swap in my 94 a few months ago. The engine was out of a 97. That being said, there was quite a few differences on the top of the engine that had to be swapped over, I ended up replacing the entire intake, fuel rails, etc, to those that were on the old engine. Other than that, though, it runs great ![Smilie](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Im not sure what the differences are (if any) between the 96 and 98. They won't have to shortcut , or chop up anything to do the swap, so it should be all good. Later!
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Im not sure what the differences are (if any) between the 96 and 98. They won't have to shortcut , or chop up anything to do the swap, so it should be all good. Later!
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yeah thats cool. when i spoke to the mechanic earlier today, he said he only had to replace a few "brackets" from the old engine to make it work, i should be getting it back tomm. this is the 4th motor they have used.
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Since they're both the 1MZ, not too much should be different just because of the year difference, so it couldn't have been too difficult of a swap for your mechanic. Just make sure you start routine maintainance asap. Enjoy 'er!
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