Why did Nick put a V8 in his Lexus IS200?
Nick Wealleans put a V8 in his Lexus IS200 for one reason: to do massive god damn noisy burnouts! It’s one of the best reasons we’ve ever heard for an engine swap. Twenty three year-old window fitter Nick Wealleans from Cardiff just wants to destroy tyres and make noise.
What kind of engine does a Lexus IS200 have?
Four months is all it took for Nick to turf out the pathetic 153bhp 2.0-litre straight-six 1G-FE engine, shoehorn in a 290bhp 4.0-litre V8 1UZ-FE engine from an LS400, mate it to the original 6-speed IS200 gearbox and get all the electrics working.
Where does the flywheel come from on a Lexus IS200?
Nick explains: “Dave machined the gearbox housing and supplied custom engine mounts for the 4.0-litre V8. The clutch and flywheel came from an SW20 Toyota MR2 Turbo, which luckily has the same size flywheel as the 1UZ. Dave re-drilled the flywheel to elongate the bolt-holes slightly, so that everything lined up properly.
What kind of engine does a Lexus Altezza have?
The Altezza Gita was a hatchback – station wagon version sold in Japan and was known in the US and Europe as the Lexus IS SportCross. The AS300 Altezza Gita was the only Altezza with the 2JZ-GE engine; in export markets this engine was available in the sedan models as well as the Lexus IS300 Sedan.
Four months is all it took for Nick to turf out the pathetic 153bhp 2.0-litre straight-six 1G-FE engine, shoehorn in a 290bhp 4.0-litre V8 1UZ-FE engine from an LS400, mate it to the original 6-speed IS200 gearbox and get all the electrics working.
Nick Wealleans put a V8 in his Lexus IS200 for one reason: to do massive god damn noisy burnouts! It’s one of the best reasons we’ve ever heard for an engine swap. Twenty three year-old window fitter Nick Wealleans from Cardiff just wants to destroy tyres and make noise.
Nick explains: “Dave machined the gearbox housing and supplied custom engine mounts for the 4.0-litre V8. The clutch and flywheel came from an SW20 Toyota MR2 Turbo, which luckily has the same size flywheel as the 1UZ. Dave re-drilled the flywheel to elongate the bolt-holes slightly, so that everything lined up properly.