HEY HEY HEY I got a new car!! Visit my other member page to see it: MarkJohansonIS

Here is just a sneak peak of my new IS 300!:

You wont believe what happened to my car!!!! see the second page!!!!!!!!

I gotta new air intake check it out!

Page last modified 2/29/2004
Car last modified 3/5/2004

This Lexus has been in my family since August of 1991. Since I was six I have been in charge of washing and waxing it regularly. It was during the cleaning of this car where I developed my love for cars. Since then I have worked as a full professional auto detailer, and a lover of opening stuff up and seeing how it works. When my parents went to sell the car, even though I was only 15, I insisted on buying it from them. I have kept excellent care of it and put many hours into it, because, frankly, I love working on it. I am currently a sophomore at Emory University here in Atlanta, Georgia.

Since there are not many performance mods available for my car, most of my upgrades have been in the audio and visual realms. I have done all of the work myself, and since I am really busy with school and work, things usually take a while to get done.

NEW!!!! Hey guys I just got back from a business trip with my dad to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, and I won over $200 in the casino! Well I knew the second I cashed my chips what I was gonna get with the winnings... A new Air intake. I just got it last Friday and immediately installed it! I got the whole deal. A Weapon-R Full Dragon air intake kit, with the Ram Air add on kit, and the Heat shield adapter. It took about 5 hours of blood and sweet to get everything working, and finding a damn path for the ram air hose to go!!! But it works beautifully! Definite increases in horsepower all over the powerband, but the biggest increases are in the middle, man its great, but I still gotta get a computer or something to adjust the air to fuel ratios, it keeps changing gears about 1000 RPM's before it should. I took some pictures but I haven't gotten them developed yet so I gotta do that. I am getting a digital camera for my birthday, which is only a month away, so I will fully load this page with pictures once i get that done!

Engine/Performance:
-Stock 3.0L, Quad Cam, 24 Valve, V6 Engine
-Weapon-R Dragon air intake kit
-Weapon-R Ram air kit w/ heat shield
-TRD high performance platinum spark plugs
-Engine tuning and tweaking to more aggressive settings
-Performance Radiator
-New Lightweight, high-output, Battery
-Horsepower was increased from 210 to 230ish
-Replaced tires with V-rated Michelin Energy MXV4+ tires

Audio:
-Stock Premium Lexus Stereo that consists of a 185 watt, 8 speaker, Pioneer system with a trunk mounted 6 CD changer
-Changed out the 2 weak 12"'s for a brand new Alpine Type-R 12" 2000 watt peak sub that�s housed in a ported Q-logic box
-300 watt JBL Power Amp (BP-300)
-1.0 Farad Rockford-Fostgate capacitator
-All custom linked with Monster Cable directly to the stereo so the factory equalizers still work

Lighting:
-Sylvania Silver Star low and high beams and fog light bulbs
-Street Glow Gold series under car neon kit (purple)
-Street Glow tire neon�s (purple)
-Street Glow 12" music activated neons
-Replace interior dome, trunk, and glove box lights with Street Glow blue lights

Other:
-Cobra Radar Detector
-10% Mirror tint

Here are some old pics of my car when I first bought it and before I modified it at all, I'll get some better pics up soon that actually show the mods...

Pic of hood with new air intake:

Close up of cold air shield plus ram air hose and sub and neon wiring:

Close up of transformer for neon's:

Close up of Ram air intake:

Close up of intake pipe:

Old Subs:

New Sub:

Capacitator:

Here is a pic of the car, which hasnt been cleaned in forever, from the side, so you can see the mirror tint:

Pic of old and new at night:

From the front:

From the side:

From the back:

Hahaha thats one powerful flash!:

Those Silver Stars rock:

Pic of the sub powered neon and the amp through the ski-slot in the back seat:

Pic of the open driver's door you can see one of the blue interior lights:

Here is the red LED switch next to my left foot that activates all of the neons: