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1997 VVTi twin turbo MK2 toyota Aristo running a BRC LPG system £4500


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I’ve decided to sell my MK2 Toyota Aristo Vertex VVTi twin turbo!

For those that don’t know the car at all it is a Japanese import equivalent to the Lexus GS model. However unlike supra’s the Aristo Vertex actually came as a higher spec model in Japan than the UK model GS did. It’s fitted with the familiar 2JZ-GTE and has exactly the same performance upgrade-ability as the lump in a supra so the power is available as deep as your wallet goes.

 

Details, Details!

 

Well it’s a 1997 R plate car in silver. It has 102,000 miles on the ODO but it looks from the history that at least 25,000 of them were in Kilometres, still its low miles for a 14 year old car at approx 91,000 miles.

The car has the usual stuff you’d expect from Lexus ie

• Full black leather interior with 5 seats suitable for seating 4 large adults and a smaller person, and all have 3 point belts. The rear seat armrest also doubles up as a child’s booster seat

• Heated and electric front seats

• Folding and heated mirrors (supra eat your heart out lol)

• Premium glove box mounted CD auto-changer sound system operated from a touch screen that can also be used as a TV and DVD feed

• Electric windows front and rear isolatable from the drivers panel

• Retracting steering wheel

• Cup holders front and rear

• Jacket/coat hanger on rear grab handles

• Remote central locking now activated by a thatcham class 1 alarm system

• Manufacturers matching front and rear high spec mats

• Metallic paint

• Colossal storage in the boot

• Steering wheel mounted controls, seamless tip-tronic auto transmission

• Climate control, again operated from the touch screen, and still cold enough to keep an ice-cream frozen in the desert

• A traction control system to rival race logic with active rear wheel steering assistance when it all gets a bit out of shape (this system doesn’t give you that heart stopping utter power kill the stock supra system does)

Extra’s/Modifications

• Jasma stainless steel cat back exhaust system

• TRD front strut brace and under body front chassis brace

• Tein comfort sport coilovers fitted in 2008 (receipt present)

• TOM’s ecu that properly removes the top speed limit which is notoriously difficult on auto VVTI’s

• BRC multi-point injection LPG system with electronic flashlube valve protection system and 70 litre toroidal wheel well tank. It uses the same quantity of gas as it would if it was on petrol. At an average of 78 pence a litre where super is £1.42 you don’t have to be a master mathematician to figure out how much money this saves!

• Endless CCR front pads with Mintex rears

• TRD washable panel air filter kit

• Aristo branded carbon fibre window and rear number plate garnishes

• Proper UK spec speedo fitted to convert it from KMPH

History

The car appears to have come into the UK from Japan in 2000. It has what appears to be a full Toyota service history in Japan up to 25k km. There are MOT’s from then to now but sporadic and some receipts from then to now. The cars had money spent on it. The coilovers were fitted in response to what appears to have been a shock absorber failure if the recovery receipt followed by the coilover receipt adds up to 4. The car had a brand spanking new ABS pump unit fitted (no receipt but you could see its spanking) which retails at over £1700 minus labour and is a known 10-12 year fault with the car. Personally I’ve had all of the oils including the diff, and auto-box oil changed, the cam-belt and tensioners, and spark plugs replaced, I’ve stuck a new Yuasa 005 calcium battery in, and the endless CCR front pads with Mintex rear pads that so far seem to improve the braking performance to around UK spec braking under a ton twenty five (I’ve not taken the car beyond that for a very long time)

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Would love one of these but can't justify having 3 cars :)

 

Once you drive your TT performer as a daily that costs the same as your current daily to run then your requirement for said current daily vanishes. LPG on a TT does precisely that, half your supra's running cost and that is where you are at with my car. I sold my diesel runner as it cost the same to run as my aristo (insurance aside).

 

Only reason I am selling it is because I have a new 5 year job 12 miles from home and I never leave a 40 limit or a road that more than 40 can be achieved despite my best efforts because of the appalling road surface. I have a monster truck 4x4 that has been sat for 2 years nearly and that as a vehicle is the more suited to my current requirements.

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GAH!!! Somebody has left me a little car park surprise!! The front wing and front bumper under the wing now has a nice scrape on the paint. I reckon its going to be around a couple of hundred quid to get that blown back in properly FFS.

 

With this in mind and the fact that its due taxing a price drop to £3750 is in order. That is my utter bottom price and I think I'm actually robbing myself here when the gas kit and service cost me £2500

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Once you drive your TT performer as a daily that costs the same as your current daily to run then your requirement for said current daily vanishes. LPG on a TT does precisely that, half your supra's running cost and that is where you are at with my car. I sold my diesel runner as it cost the same to run as my aristo (insurance aside).

 

Only reason I am selling it is because I have a new 5 year job 12 miles from home and I never leave a 40 limit or a road that more than 40 can be achieved despite my best efforts because of the appalling road surface. I have a monster truck 4x4 that has been sat for 2 years nearly and that as a vehicle is the more suited to my current requirements.

 

Stop it !! Must resist...

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You won't have to resist for long I think it will be sold before the weekend mate. It is a simply stupid price for whats on offer.

 

If I didn't have to pay for insurance, tax and a holiday next month then I probably would have snapped your arm off. GLWS

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hi buddy, sorry to highjack the thread but do you mind if i ask where you got the lpg conversion done from? Is it true the system regularly needs to be serviced?

 

and also is there much difference in performance?

 

and approx how many mpg are you getting with the gas?

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Where abouts are you based?

 

I'm just north of Bournemouth mate

 

according to how many left there are only 9 in the country

 

I expect there probably aren't that many in the country but only 9 wouldn't be that accurate. Possibly only 9 registered on a 1997 plate as alot are registered as lexus GS300's for some reason.

 

hi buddy, sorry to highjack the thread but do you mind if i ask where you got the lpg conversion done from? Is it true the system regularly needs to be serviced?

 

and also is there much difference in performance?

 

and approx how many mpg are you getting with the gas?

 

I got the LPG fitted by a local firm called dorset LPG. There is no difference in performance between gas and petrol. I am getting pretty similar mpg on gas and petrol ie about 230 miles to 53-55 litres. I filled up today and I paid 76 pence a litre for gas and £1.43 a litre for a few litres of super which I last put petrol in about 2 months ago I think.

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