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HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - jimxms - 18-06-2019

Anyone got any ideas where I could get one from. I think an IS200 rad should be the same.

Cut a long story short. I think my rad has been replaced. It should have two lines running to it for auto transmission fluid cooling. It doesn't!!!

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I've got the car in bits with the charger off (another story!) and now is the ideal time to swap over.

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - Lexusboy - 18-06-2019

Have you tried these

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LEXUS-200-300-NEW-AIRCON-RADIATOR-CONDENSER-16-3935-/320452926873?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4a9c7b9d99#ht_500wt_1156

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LEXUS-IS200-2-0-1999-2005-CAR-RADIATOR-NEW-/290591158116?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item43a8952f64#ht_3089wt_905

http://www1.fastrads.co.uk/radiators/lexus/is200/data.html

might be worth phoning them though to see if they have what you want in stock...

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - Stoney - 18-06-2019

I don't quite understand Jim. I thought all rads had the fittings for those lines, though they were only used on the autos? Does yours not have the fittings? Or are they just not plumbed in? The one I fitted to mine certainly had them, but I did not use them. Maybe they do make specifically different manual and auto ones too, but would that mean at some point someone fitted a manual only one to your auto?

Also be aware there are different core depths available, IIRC from when I replaced mine. The non-OEM ones may not be as thick.

Lexusboy http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LEXUS-200-300-NEW-AIRCON-RADIATOR-CONDENSER-16-3935-/320452926873?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4a9c7b9d99#ht_500wt_1156

Isn't that an aircon condenser not a rad?

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - Lexusboy - 18-06-2019

Stoney i think your right..
It looks like the condenser that fits on the front of the rad..
Second and third link are ok though

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - sprinter2012 - 18-06-2019

I don't think the IS200 radiator would work...theres a massive header tank thing on the back of it (which is why I haven't fitted my IS300 intake yet because it won't fit over the header thank, but thats another story)

So unless the header tank thing is a removable part I think you may be tight for space?

P.S. Liking the new sig pic Jim :thumbup1:

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - Sparkystav - 18-06-2019

the header is removeable IIRC

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - Sparkystav - 18-06-2019

http://bahamutcars.free.fr/workshop/IS_98-05/rm/rm684e/m_co_0014.pdf

there you go

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - sprinter2012 - 18-06-2019

No good for me because it's still part of the fan assembly, but certainly a big bonus for Jim Smile

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - ormi - 19-06-2019

if you can see the pipes for the gearbox cooler coming from the gearbox you could just get an oil cooler mount it above the intercooler and extend the pipes....save you buying a new rad...
heres a pic of a cooler on a is300
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the boy above has also kept the standard cooler too.....heres his statment
I decided to still use the stock cooler as well...

this is what i did

the line going to the radiator i routed to the cooler, and from the cooler back to the original input of the stock tranny cooler.

Very simple, of course if your boosted remove your IC it will be much easier that way.

time needed 30-45 minutes

HELP!!! Need an IS300 Radiator LIKE NOW!! - jimxms - 19-06-2019

Cheers for the info boys.

@ormi = unfortunately I've got nowhere in front of my intercooler to fit a tranny cooler. The FMIC is almost as big as the radiator its self Sad I've got a mocal 10 row cooler sitting in my garage, but finding somewhere in the engine bay that it can go where it wont get heat soaked is difficult Sad

@stoney = nah the rad i've got on here doesn't have the barbs for A/T cooling. You can see where they should potentially go, but there's no holes made or anything. You;re right that most aftermarket IS200 rads have it tho.



EDIT:

Is there anyone with an IS300 that could check and see if they've got two extra lines running to the bottom of their radiators for me? I've just tracked my ATF cooling lines and they go to this:

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Looks like some form of heat exchanger. AT fluid lines go in/out so do some larger braided lines which look most likely to be coolant. The crazy thing is that its bolted to the engine block just beneath the exhaust manifold. Surely that can't be OEM? Sounds like a **** design if so!!