Sc400

It's a GT car.

god tier

300 is better because factory manual and 2jz, more potential for power and no one will get upset when you turn a grand tourer into a supra jr.

dont get me wrong the uz is a fine engine but it's made for comfort above all else.

only the jap soarer got the 1jz

its super comfy and has actually aged really well considering. Ive seen a few decent examples for 2-2.5k and im having a hard time not picking one up

>300 is better because factory manual and 2jz

Glassbox unobtainium manual, 2JZ-*GE* means actually turning it into a broke boy supra takes fuckbuckets of money

That said yes. 400 grand tourer, 300 sport coupe.

I've been lusting after one with 120k miles for 3.3k usd. too bad i'm in debt going to school lol

I don't want an auto in anything ever, so I care.

I've got an SC400 with the 4.0 V8, extremely reliable and interior is great. Fuel economy could be better but still good for a 20 year old V8, the auto is only a 4 speed but works well enough.

yee

as someone that dailys an sc400 first gen a 5 speed ka tranny would make this car feel like a 92 mustang with irs

it reminds me of my dads 83 928. the ride feels like it but smoother. its a grand touring car, its supposed to classy like that. its a damn nice car.

a decent supra tech can do it pretty cheap though. like say $1200 on his own car. its going to be higher of course for anyone else. that does include parts, and used stuff like the transmission, and the supra engine. you can get them from the junkyard like lkq, make friends you can bribe for heads up on neat shit they will let you plunder first.

?? thoughts?

victoria.craigslist.ca/cto/d/sc400-manual-obo-s-t/6386710523.html

>>auto only
answered your own question

I used to manage 10L per 100km. (aussie)
Loved my first one had a uzz32.
Hated my second with the 1jz,

>tfw my uncle had an sc400
>he got rid of it before i discovered how interesting of a car it was due to a dead battery
:(

1jz Soarers can be imported now. Just do that.

>more power
>more aftermarket
>manual

>are these any good?

Let's see.
Pigfat
Hideous
Meh interior
Meh engine
Horrible traditional slushbox

It needs serious modification to be anything other than a not-unbearibly-slow-but-still-slow granny cruiser coupe

do you have a similarly priced alternative?

I don't know how much they cost

2-3k ish for a 92

>Pigfat
somewhat true
>Hideous
false
>Meh interior
false
>Meh engine
very false
>Horrible traditional slushbox
not entirely true

>It needs serious modification to be anything other than a not-unbearibly-slow-but-still-slow granny cruiser coupe
have you ever driven one though

>>meh engine
>false
false unless

These cars always looked too long and too narrow to me. And way too rounded. I guess it was styled to look like a dick or something.

they got more power as the years progressed tho?

>>Pigfat
>somewhat true
Nope. 100% true, it's heavy and it even looks fat

>>Hideous
>false
No. Very true. It looks like the spawn of a bubble gen ford escort being raped by a 240z.

>>Meh interior
>false
Fanboy detected. It's solidly meh. Typical boring and dated looking 90s lexus interior. Hasn't aged well unlike the more handsome Supra interior, it just looks like the inside of granny's lexus sedan.

>>Meh engine
>very false
Fanboy detected. 1UZ is perhaps even below "meh" unless modified. Why am I not mentioning the 2JZ-GE? This thread is titled SC400 dumbass. The SC400 had the V8.

>>Horrible traditional slushbox
>not entirely true
Very true. It drives like any other 90s lexus, the transmission behaves like any other old traditional slushbox of the era. Slow to respond, will hunt for gears in mixed throttle driving like in a winding road, and feels 'slushy'

>>It needs serious modification to be anything other than a not-unbearibly-slow-but-still-slow granny cruiser coupe
>have you ever driven one though
Yep. My mom had a 95 SC400 from the time it was new. It got passed down to me when I was in high school. I did basic mods to it, a full header back exhaust, a piggy back EMS and dyno tune, supra springs, shocks (bilstein or koni), aftermarket wheels and some summer tires to replace the all-seasons. I owned it for something like 4 years before getting rear-ended in 2012 on the way back from college for the summer. The rear end was crushed to the C-pillar and it was scrapped. I was more upset by the fact that my relatively new PC and laptop were destroyed in the trunk than by the car being wrecked. I replaced it with an S60R which I wound up not liking much either after a couple of years.

Forgot to post the pic, post 94 got weak ass con rods.

Coworker owns one and he's trying to swap engines and make it manual.

From my understanding sc400 was meant for cruising correct? I feel like he's making a costly mistake

I keep trying to convince him otherwise. What do Veeky Forums?

Ls swap

>replace anemic and low-potential-without-total-rebuild 1UZ with more powerful and not even heavier LS
Good idea imo. Only a diehard toyota fanboy will try to convince someone that a SC's 1UZ is a better platform for performance mods than even a lowly LS1 let alone something later.

The Sc300's have the same engine as the supra and can be had in manual.

They literally are supras with different sheet metal.

miatas for nothin
vin checks for free

>same engine as the supra
The NA Supra
>literally are supras with different sheet metal.
Eh... not quite. There are other differences. Anyway a NA Supra is a meme without meaning. The NA 2JZ has nowhere near the potential of the turbo one if you just bolt a turbo on it.

Easier said than done.

Good for what?
They're a solid reliable Japanese luxury gt car. They're slow and not very sporty without a lot of modification, but they're great in their own way.

It's a trophy wife's car.

>They literally are supras with different sheet metal.
No they are not. People who say this have no idea what they're talking about.

>lexus
>good

If drowning in wallpaper paste is your thing, then yes

If you're looking for a sportscar, then look elsewhere. If you want to a decently affordable GT car, it's great.

If you're looking to mod it, buy somebody's failed project and avoid ruining a clean one.

Its literally an elongated supra frame, they're heavier yes but they share the same suspension components.

dustrunnersauto.com/4-reasons-to-buy-a-lexus-sc300-sc400-today/

jalopnik.com/for-14-000-could-this-1999-lexus-sc300-be-a-supra-sta-1693075419

carthrottle.com/post/this-lexus-sc300-has-supra-dna-and-monster-horsepower-for-the-price-of-a-compact-hatchback/

>Its literally an elongated supra frame

Wrong.

Also, you should avoid using blog sites like Jalopnik and Car Throttle as sources. They are some of the biggest festering cess pools of misinformation.

You aren't buying an R154 for less than a grand these days

The whole 'supra with a different body' thing comes from the MK3 Supra and the Z20 Soarer which were pretty much interchangeable, the Z30 is a highly modified MK3 châssis with very different suspension and a lot of electronics, it is almost in no way related to the MK4 Supra

what do you drive now?

Those are not weak. The 89-94 was just extremely overbuilt.

These are great cars. They just don’t build them like this anymore. They are the peak of Japanese automotive industry. Overbuilt, smooth, and aging very well. These are future classics, so find one in good shape with documented service history, and hold onto it without garbage ghetto mods.

I’m looking for a mint sc400 to garage and take to car shows in a decade or so. Basically do what boomers did during my youth. You can still find one and two owner SC’s with decent mileage and documented dealer service if you are patient. Lots of rich old doctors and old lady’s are dying off on Florida and Arizona and these things pop up for sale. Just had a coworker’s son pick up a 99 sc400 in pearl white for $7000. I’m offering to buy it from him for $8000 and also have a few offers locally from aging combover paisanos that have them. All low mileage and terrific shape, even higher mileage is fine if they kept it out of the elements and did timing belts. But I’m hunting for a sub 70k mile SC400 in pearl white or red.

The amount of haters on here is really sad for an enthusiast board. Even if you don’t like jap cars or GT’s, you’re completely ridiculous if you cannot appreciate what Toyota achieved with this car in the 90’s, and where it is headed to in the pantheon of classics from that era. The drivetrain, attention to detail, and build quality are not something you could repeat today. If you don’t get it, then you are too easily wowed by modern baubles, and have zero appreciation for the relatively recent past and how we got there, and ho we’ve (in many cases, unfortunately) have moved on.

...

Please don’t cock up these cars with shitty mods.

Lower them a little bit, do some suspension work to reduce body roll, and throw on a nice exhaust system, and call it a day. The last 2UZ ones had over 300hp. They don’t have too much grunt down low, but they really scream when you flatten the throttle on the highway. The Lexus V8 is tuned for 50-90mph sprints, not from a dig.

ls swap is a good idea but my god it's boring.

It looks like a fucking dildo with wheels and weighs a shit ton, why would anybody want this?

better than all your garbage cars combined tho
don't be salty because you can't afford a car worth more than 200 pesos

>can't afford an SC
It's literally a 1000 dollar shitbox, the only ones that was expensive are the manuals

A very fun/comfy DD. I've had 3 and loved each and every one of them.

I daily an E92 M3. Not really relevant to this thread though.

>Its literally an elongated supra frame, they're heavier yes but they share the same suspension components.
Wrong. What the fuck are you doing using jalopshit and carthrottle as a source of information?

>The last 2UZ ones had over 300hp.

The Z30 never had the 2UZ.

You're probably thinking of the most powerful of the V8 models which was the '98-'00 with the VVT-i version of the 4.0L 1UZ, but that only made 290bhp. The S160 did get a version of the engine that made 300bhp.

But the most powerful version was the JDM-only verison with 1JZ-GTE with VVT-i that made 295bhp.

>1000 dollar shitbox

Only for the really crappy ones.

But then again, you'd have to question if you really want a $1000 Z30.

>*will soon go the way of the S-chassis

It's already started to happen. Prices for clean ones have already started to bottom out for the clean UZ models. The JZ ones with automatics can still go lower, but the manuals are obviously at a premium right now.

They're all the crappy ones lmao

so ungrateful being given a nice car and not appreciating it just because its not a meme skyline

So is pic related, but it comes with a manual.

>gets gifted a nice car
>hates and crashes it
>gets a newer, nicer car
>ends up hating that one, too

This is why you never give your kids free cars. They never appreciate anything and take that with them into adulthood.

how can people even enjoy auto trannys, is it even a car anymore

If you're this much of a jap crap JDM fanboy you can justify just about anything

320. ;)

???

>says I'm wrong but fails to provide proof of his bullshit claim.

and no you don't daily an M3 Busrider.

I didn't get it for free you cuck, I paid my mom for it. Where on earth does it say my S60R was free? I did this thing called "work" which allowed me to pay for my shit. You're also a fucking retard because I flat out said I got rear-ended.

Whatever, idiot

;)

Is a Lincoln LSC a sports car? Or Any of the Thunderbirds? Plug in your brain before you post.

Timing belt + interference engine = a rough night's sleep, every night

It's true, stock 1JZ VVTis Dyno at 260-270whp depending on it's condition

>Being this triggered

Oy really

>weeb gets called on his bullshit
>s-stop being s-so triggered!
Nice projection lmao

how the fuck would you be able to sleep with that combo. its like turbo wankel with N/A apex seals.

>he only got 2 yous

I think its the other way round Mr. pedostache.

Literally a fat Supra

One of my favorite Lexus/Toyotas

Supra wankers shit on them for a reason though the manual is made of glass and the non turbo jz auto is pretty slow but I'm pretty sure more have factory lsd

Try and get a V8 one