My IS200 Homepage

This site is still under modifications, therefore I  will just give you details of my mod process. After I have taken my car to the panel shop, I will get new photos of the current state of my car. So please bear with the pictures of my car last year

As you can tell by the title of this homepage, this site is dedictated to lexus/ Toyota's IS200. Here I will have updates of my car.

I first purchase my car in June 1999 at my local Lexus dealer. The car came standard with a Legana Kit and the 17" Lexus wheels. My car was the basic model, but moonroof and Leather seats were added on as extras.

At the first service of 1000km, I exchanged my air filter to TRD sporst filter,and spark plugs to NGK Iridium

My next modification was lowering springs. I believe that in modifying a car, everything should start from ground up. With the Schneider wheels in place I was tempted to lower my car with TEIN STech springs form Japan. The springs were of medium settings and lowered my car towards earth by 35mm all the way.

By August 1999 my car went thru the 1st set of modifications. A set of 17" Schenider wheels were ordered  and installed by a Wheel and Tyre shop.

August 1999, I stopped over at my  Lexus dealer and fitted a pair of carbon fibre mirrors.

At the end of 1999 I went to Japan to work for BP Solarex, a solar panel manufacturer situated in Shinjuku Tokyo. I also took this time to shop around for some Altezza parts. To my suprise car accessories were not easliy found in Japan, but oneday I stumbled across a 2 storey garage the size of K-mart full of auto accessories. This auto heaven was known as Autobacs.

I returned back from Hong Kong/ Japan in feburary 2000 with my suitcase full of goods for my car. On my annual visit back to my home country I forced myself to part with my hard earned cash in Japan for a Alpine MD/CD double din unit and a PPI 5 channel amplifier. I also brought back carbon fibre B pillars and rain sheilds for my car.

From my trip to Japan I returned with a few items for my car. First was a pair of PIAA plasma bulb giving the car headlights a GS300 Xenon light feel. The second was a double din plastic cover for my future radio I was planning to install into my car. As the Lexus radio unit gets narrower at the bottom this aftermarket product was well sought after and was better than getting a installer to make a new plastic cover to fill in the gaps where the original radio was.

Feburary 2000. Driving around town I noticed that most modified cars usually had their exhaust modified. Looking at my chrome tip exhausts from my car I was sick and tired of the rust build up where the chrome tip was place. I am sure many IS200 onwers have the same problem as me. I started to shop around for a quality sounding muffler, and was happy to part AUD1100 for a Remus rear muffler specially designed for IS200.

The remus gave a deep rumbling sound after I removed the factory resonators and replaced it with after market products supplied by the muffler man.

The next stop was off to the car audio installers and I again handed more of the folding stuff to the boss in exchange for Boston speaker front and rear, and an Alpine 12" subwoofer.

It took 3 weeks of labour to install the Alpine head unit, speakers, amplifers and the subwoofer into my car, but the wait was worth while as I was beaming with pleasure as I drove outta the shop and into town blasting the subwoofer with windows down.

I was getting bored with my wheels and by June 2000 I ordered my 3rd set of wheels for my car. AVS model 7 by Yokohama measuing 18x7.5 was fitted onto my caar and I sold my then existing wheels to a closr friend also driving an IS200.

I guess the modifying bug has caught on and by August 2000 I was sick and tired of the Remus exhaust and ordered a HKS hyper muffler from Japan. To this day I believe this is the best mod I've done to my car, as the sound of the exhaust matches the looks of my IS200 which I was trying to make as agressive as possible.