1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

More trauma bonding

 

Just drive it up here and ill help lol

 

permanent back pain?

 

help what, eat zyns?

 

I have been informed it's Tuesday and not Thursday...whoops, too late to take the beers back

 

Well ya but that's from dating, it's different.

 

I've been beerless for 3 weeks, mostly out of laziness though

 

89 from Arco in a Lexus bro

 

Poor GX was holding on for dear life. Got to load the tundra tune in it if you want to put the cheap shit in.

 

It's around the corner before I jump on the freeway

I always thought these fuckers were tuned for 87 actually, being that it's a basic SUV.

 

is that a cry for help? You got a surplus of zyns need taken care of?

 

Legit thought this was an 87 octane car

 

I do worry about you.

 

There's only one Lexus ever designed for 87 and it's the LX450, I think that was mostly out of sheer laziness on Toyota's part.

 

Well shoot that one makes sense for sure, it's a freaking tractor motor.

 

Only some GX 470 "require" premium. The language in the owners manual is different for 03-04 and 05+. According to the interwebs, that correlates with the addition of VVT-i.

I can't find the exact working at the moment, but I remember earlier years say something like you "can" use premium, later say you "should".

 

Too bad the 80 series and LX450 aren't as GoOd Or ReLiAbLe as a Tacoma

 

All of them in the early years can... Provided the knock monitoring is working because that's how it detects octane degradation.

 

@Speedytech7 @Kwikvette Lexus actually has a support page on octane ratings: https://support.lexus.com/s/article/Which-fuel-grade-shou-8129

Looks like I was off by a year, 03-05 GX 470 says minimum octane 87.

Fair point that compromised knock detection could do funny things, you'd know better than I would what the fallback logic is.

 

The lack of knock detection makes sense though which is what I sort of assumed but wasn't sure if it applied on a vehicle of this age.

It's an '03 hence the use of 89.

But again if no knock sensor, makes sense why it's suddenly pinging like it is.

 

You should post a video of the sound. It's possible it could be a ball bearing in your bellhousing. We actually saw that on Mike's truck @Digiratus when his starter bearing exploded. But I don't remember them making much noise and they eventually spit themselves right out anyway