I just bought a 1998 LS400

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06-16-05, 01:59 PM

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I just bought a 1998 LS400

Hello to all.
My names Dan and I just purchased a 1998 LS400 this week.
It's now got 68K miles after the drive back from Florida and I must say I'm enamored with it. Very luxurious and a real pleasure to drive.
Pardon the slightly dirty appearance, these were taken when I finished the trip:

I've decided to sign up here because I have been having difficulty finding alot of information pertaining to the car myself.
I know it has the 1UZFE motor in it but I would like to know what generation it's known as. I know it's a slightly different motor than the 95-97 but I believe it's the same body so I'm a bit confused. This all leads to what performance parts are available for my particular model. I believe suspension will be the first step. Suggestions?

I also would like to eventually run some form of forced induction but I'm not finding any prefabricated setups. I have no problem creating a custum set-up but I'd like to know if that's neccesary now (possible links would be greatly appreciated as well). If anyone knows how many PSI the stock internals on the motor can reliably tolerate that would be helpful too. I've seen a large disparity in figures there.

Thanks to all for any and all help

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06-16-05, 02:57 PM

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This should point you in the right direction...

http://www.lexls.com/info/lsgenerations.html

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http://www.lextreme.com/

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06-16-05, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by GRAND_LS 4

This should point you in the right direction...

http://www.lexls.com/info/lsgenerations.html

and

http://www.lextreme.com/

Welcome to the club man, I also have a 98 LS400. The 95-97 LS differs from the 98-00 body-wise...the headlights and grille, the tail lights are longer on the 98-00 and I think the 98-00 has just a tad bit difference in shape, but not enough to notice. In 98 they stopped the goofy 3 foot antenna that was on the back. Other than that, thats all that has chaged for the body. The engine has about 30 more horses than the older ones. Oh and I was looking on the Lexls.com and realized ours are 20 MPH faster than the new ones!! I guess they govern them at 150 MPH right? Then starting 2001 they governed them at 130 MPH...Idiots!!!

At least I know that I will beat them in the long run!