GS300 Budget Rocket

by *_BHP_*, 18-07-2024, 07:52 PM

Hi all first post, thought I would document my little project somewhere and Marc told me about this site a few weeks ago so here I am

Here is my new 2001 GS300 I purchased this 2 weeks ago it has done 73k Miles and just had a service at Lexus Twickenham.

My plan is to create a little 400bhp rocket but turbocharging it and right now my mind is on keeping the Automatic transmission in place, but will eventually convert it to manual when the novelty of not changing gear wears off and the rest of my conversion is done.

The first step is to replace the ECU and keep all the factory functions intact as far as I can. I want to create a complete plug in solution so anyone can do it - I will keep the car NA for this step but start to accumulate the parts to convert it to turbo.

I plan to use a Borg Warner EFR internal wastegate turbo and retain the standard inlet which should easily see 400bhp with a very large average torque curve making for great little accelerating motor.

Here are some pictures of my car:







My first step was to see what data the new ECU needed to reproduce to enable the car electronics to function when we removed the original Toyota Denso based ECU:



I found 3 data streams on the ECU connectors, the top 2 are actually exactly the same, after some investigation the ECU pins are connected to the same PCB track inside the ECU; not sure why but maybe a simple check to see if the ECU is present. Anyway I have identified the this as Toyota Body Electronics Area Network or BEAN and supports some dash functions and the external temp sensor for the air con. I will use a CAN to BEAN converter to move the appropriate data back onto the car's chassis bus.



The other two streams are simple comms data related to the car's traction control system and simply carry the wheel speed information and a few other related values. It will be necessary to reuse this information in the new ECU for the Cruise, Traction and Launch control strategies.

Anyway that's all I have for now and I am sure I have bored you all enough with my first post on this forum

Comments, Suggestions and Corrections very welcome

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