What the F... Where are our..
06-30-12, 05:05 PM
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M3 has racing heritage. A cult following...however, if Lexus does things right and continue the IS F...who knows what maybe down the line...the 1st Gen IS F may one day be like an e30 M3? NAH....LOL
06-30-12, 06:23 PM
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Honestly the ISF was the wrong car to buy if you are going for big power. Most people are happy with them the way they are. A piggy back is almost useless with the way our ECU works. I could care less if some highly modded M3 is faster than me. I didn't buy the car to race people.
07-01-12, 07:59 AM
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you can't bag on him for wanting more power our of his car, different strokes for different folks. He's right about the engine, people direct injecting 225plus reliably into the car makes you wanna have that kinda power w/o a bottle attached.
07-01-12, 08:09 AM
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I actually bought my F so I couldnt mod it
I have made modding decisions in the past I regret and money pits are not fun. I love cars but they arent fun when they are pushed to the point of consuming time and resources. I wanted something that I could daily and still have a blast in.
I have several friends with M3s and they are are fun but I really like my F tons better and know with the mods available on the M I would never stop. Its a sickness and we are all attics! With the F there is no wondering what mods are best or what mods to get since the selection is so limited and I see that as a good thing.
That said I will be getting the available mods and adding spray to mine but thats cheaper than any turbo kit!
I have made modding decisions in the past I regret and money pits are not fun. I love cars but they arent fun when they are pushed to the point of consuming time and resources. I wanted something that I could daily and still have a blast in.I have several friends with M3s and they are are fun but I really like my F tons better and know with the mods available on the M I would never stop. Its a sickness and we are all attics! With the F there is no wondering what mods are best or what mods to get since the selection is so limited and I see that as a good thing.
That said I will be getting the available mods and adding spray to mine but thats cheaper than any turbo kit!
07-02-12, 12:19 PM
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It's funny, I've been doing more looking into things...
It seems there are ECU re-programmers out there...
https://techinfo.toyota.com/techInfo...ice&_nfpb=true
The Toyota TIS and the Pass Thru Pro II allow some reprogramming. I'm sure that if the right people started to reverse engineer this stuff they would be able to crack it and have alot of control over the ECU. I don't think this stuff have been put in the right hands to be honest...
Very annoying...
There may be 10:1 M3's to IS-F's but many of the IS-F owners are or were supra owners who were not used to this type of limitation.
It's not about big power... Just a good enough of power.. 600 WHP would put a nice big smile on my face.. I'm sure.
It seems there are ECU re-programmers out there...
https://techinfo.toyota.com/techInfo...ice&_nfpb=true
The Toyota TIS and the Pass Thru Pro II allow some reprogramming. I'm sure that if the right people started to reverse engineer this stuff they would be able to crack it and have alot of control over the ECU. I don't think this stuff have been put in the right hands to be honest...
Very annoying...
There may be 10:1 M3's to IS-F's but many of the IS-F owners are or were supra owners who were not used to this type of limitation.
It's not about big power... Just a good enough of power.. 600 WHP would put a nice big smile on my face.. I'm sure.
07-02-12, 03:26 PM
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I have a friend in Texas that had a twin turbo f. Said he would get smoke from stop light to stop light waiting on it to spool up. Lol. Said the stock f was a lot more responsive and fun.
07-03-12, 12:23 AM
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Honestly the ISF was the wrong car to buy if you are going for big power. Most people are happy with them the way they are. A piggy back is almost useless with the way our ECU works. I could care less if some highly modded M3 is faster than me. I didn't buy the car to race people.
I actually bought my F so I couldnt mod it I have made modding decisions in the past I regret and money pits are not fun. I love cars but they arent fun when they are pushed to the point of consuming time and resources. I wanted something that I could daily and still have a blast in.
I have several friends with M3s and they are are fun but I really like my F tons better and know with the mods available on the M I would never stop. Its a sickness and we are all attics! With the F there is no wondering what mods are best or what mods to get since the selection is so limited and I see that as a good thing.
I have made modding decisions in the past I regret and money pits are not fun. I love cars but they arent fun when they are pushed to the point of consuming time and resources. I wanted something that I could daily and still have a blast in.I have several friends with M3s and they are are fun but I really like my F tons better and know with the mods available on the M I would never stop. Its a sickness and we are all attics! With the F there is no wondering what mods are best or what mods to get since the selection is so limited and I see that as a good thing.
07-03-12, 08:20 AM
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It's funny, I've been doing more looking into things...
It seems there are ECU re-programmers out there...
https://techinfo.toyota.com/techInfo...ice&_nfpb=true
The Toyota TIS and the Pass Thru Pro II allow some reprogramming. I'm sure that if the right people started to reverse engineer this stuff they would be able to crack it and have alot of control over the ECU. I don't think this stuff have been put in the right hands to be honest...
Very annoying...
There may be 10:1 M3's to IS-F's but many of the IS-F owners are or were supra owners who were not used to this type of limitation.
It's not about big power... Just a good enough of power.. 600 WHP would put a nice big smile on my face.. I'm sure.
It seems there are ECU re-programmers out there...
https://techinfo.toyota.com/techInfo...ice&_nfpb=true
The Toyota TIS and the Pass Thru Pro II allow some reprogramming. I'm sure that if the right people started to reverse engineer this stuff they would be able to crack it and have alot of control over the ECU. I don't think this stuff have been put in the right hands to be honest...
Very annoying...
There may be 10:1 M3's to IS-F's but many of the IS-F owners are or were supra owners who were not used to this type of limitation.
It's not about big power... Just a good enough of power.. 600 WHP would put a nice big smile on my face.. I'm sure.
So do these devices just let them reprogram them to the "factory default settings" or can you actually "tune" the car or Reflash it with a different (higher hp) program?
07-03-12, 11:35 AM
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But I'll tell you that the boost was amazing on the F and it sounded sick with the spooling from the rear...haha...I sold the kit to a local IS-F owner that's a tech at a Lexus dealership. He installed it and it's running fine so I guess he's happy. 
07-06-12, 12:42 AM
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I actually bought my F so I couldnt mod it I have made modding decisions in the past I regret and money pits are not fun. I love cars but they arent fun when they are pushed to the point of consuming time and resources. I wanted something that I could daily and still have a blast in.
I have several friends with M3s and they are are fun but I really like my F tons better and know with the mods available on the M I would never stop. Its a sickness and we are all attics! With the F there is no wondering what mods are best or what mods to get since the selection is so limited and I see that as a good thing.
That said I will be getting the available mods and adding spray to mine but thats cheaper than any turbo kit!
I have made modding decisions in the past I regret and money pits are not fun. I love cars but they arent fun when they are pushed to the point of consuming time and resources. I wanted something that I could daily and still have a blast in.I have several friends with M3s and they are are fun but I really like my F tons better and know with the mods available on the M I would never stop. Its a sickness and we are all attics! With the F there is no wondering what mods are best or what mods to get since the selection is so limited and I see that as a good thing.
That said I will be getting the available mods and adding spray to mine but thats cheaper than any turbo kit!
"modding" is how I ended up with a $50,000 miata.
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