Hey Everyone, i always loved Lexus and am finally about to set out to buy a GS... Don't know which one though, but plan to do a good amount of mods to it. Can anyone help me out cause the one concern i had was winter driving. I heard these cars are horrible in the winter, and i love manual transmissions and GS does not offer. Has anyone done a manual conversion and how is everyone's GS in the winter time?

 

good luck on your purchase....get the paddle shift available in the 400's...its almost like having a manual shift Oh, and welcome to Club Lexus!

 

Here are a few winter threads I have bookmarked (you could also find these by using the search feature on our forum - please give it a shot).



https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...hreadid=102940 (Recent Experiences)
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...threadid=97253 (NE Driving Recommendations)
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...threadid=30388 (Snow and Ice how to)
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...threadid=75306 (What to do with snow & ice)
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...hreadid=103160 Winter setting for wiper blades

 

This might be a stupid question, but i am a newbie to the Lexus Community, but are all the GS400 equipted with a manual paddle shift? Are there certain years, or specs i should look for? If i drop a supra engine, don't you have to take the trans as well and then convert to manual, or does the GS trans fit the supra engine?

 

If your planning to swap the engine then you could get a gs300 and save yourself some money. Since the stock engine is going to be irrelevant.

 

Can someone tell me which GS400 have the manual paddle shifting, and has anyone done a manual transmission with shifter for the GS models?

 

all gs400 has e-shift options on the steering wheel. it's button, NOT paddle shifting. gs never had paddle shift. 98-00 gs400 has eshift. 01+ gs430 doesn't have eshift anymore

if you get a supra tt engine (i assume you mean tt engine, otherwise you might just as well get a gs300), i think you need (or should) get the tranny as well. i don't think the tranny will bolt right on

 

...I mean e-shift....

 

Do all GS400 have the E-Shift?

 

Welcome makevil

01+ Gs300 then have the e-shifts.

 

haha np mark. if we don't have the new IS250 and IS350 out now, i probably wouldn't stress on it. but since those cars have real paddle shift, i think we should be clear