Why I'm ditching one IS300 to build the ULTIMATE IS300... 

I totally understand why you want to get rid of red. When it’s something that is more of work than fun, or would be worth more money than it’s worth to fix, then you should just get rid of it. And taking all your good stuff and putting it on the sport cross is a great idea. Not only do you get some nice parts, but you save in the long run. But you do you Evan. Whatever makes you happy will make me happy. I love your content and I will always love and support it no matter what you do. This channel quickly turned into one of my favorite channels when I found it roughly 3-4 years ago, and it’s because of your authenticity, and the fact that your not putting on a character. And your daily advice is something that has helped me a lot in recent times. I used to skip them, but when I was in a dark place, your advice really helped me. And I thank you dearly for that. Keep being awesome Evan.

It sucks that you are getting rid of the Red IS300, but I'm glad you made this informative video because I have plans to turbo mine. Definitely good stuff to know!

Talking about comfortable suspension while bouncing around in the sti is hilarious 😂

Dude great choice the IS300 SportCross is the better IS. Honestly one of my dream cars. Keep it up and you do you!

That video really clarified some things. Thank you. I thought a lot of cars are lost and then sold. So they are not on videos anymore till when. But now the IS gets swapped, which is really cool. And you have plans for the other cars too. I can't wait for the content to come.

I’m happy as long as you’re happy Ev! Keep up the great vids!!

Hey remember how you were considering getting an S550 or C6 for a driftcar, and how now you have an excellent chassis that would make an awesome ebisu style drift missile. I mean that would be crazy haha... unless? 😏

Hell yeah man the Sportcrosses are so sick that booootyyyyyyyy 😩 your IS videos are what made me know I needed the IS I have today I cant wait for the videos to come

finally the video that I enjoyed after a very long time. Cant wait for IS 300 build againg. Good luck and keep the mind fresh

Missed the driving vlogs, hopefully gonna see more here soon! Cant wait to see the is rippin!!

I mean wagoons are always cooler than sedans, and a 2jz dad wagon is the way to go.

Dang I remember those OG Best Buy vlog days and even the Scion TC vlog days. Came a long way! 🙌🏽

What brought me to your channel was actually the red is300. I have one and was looking forward to your build. Your plan makes sense to me and I’m looking forward to it. What bugs me a lot about is300s is the intake manifold. It’s position makes basic maintenance harder and just doesn’t look as good as the front facing manifold. I wonder if the ecu relocation can still be done somehow with a fresh car.

Can't wait to see you in Toronto! You do you we will always be here to watch

I’ve never seen a manual swap sportcross, and I’ve barely heard of built ones. This will be very sick. Be transparent in the future vids! We all suck at this and it’s nice to see when the ‘pros’ do wrong occasionally

Dude I say he'll yes. This is300wagin build will be sick. I've always thought it be sick to build one of these. Can't wait too see it fold out man!!!

I just found out you bought one! I grabbed my sportcross last weekend and am loving it so far. Suspension work is first then onto the body. I know your preaching keeping it simple but once it stops becoming my daily driver, i would love to 1uz swap it. Hope the build goes well!

Love this video! Back to the roots you know. I fully support you in your decision making. Lfgo my guy!

I 1000% support this decision and the wagon is definitely the move my dream cars are a CTSV wagon or like an SRT8 magnum so wagon gang hell yeah

That body module measures voltage drop messing with wire lengths can mess stuff up. Changing wire length changes resistance which results in different voltage drops than what the module expects. Not to mention the connections that were added to the wiring also

When I first saw the tile I was like nooo but now that you explain it I'd do the same thing. Good luck with the new build.

I’ve been watching ur vids since u start building the evo i love ur vids bro ✌🏻

Yes! Do it! We want to watch the whole process!

Nah def makes sense man ur chilling coulnt have seen it at the time lessons learned.. i got a 01 is300 pain in the ass to work on been siting for a while and all i did was a valve gasket replacement new sparks coil packs new chocks and a intake... now its doesn't idle right and power steering and bleed breaks but still dont work right ugh smh gotta get it towed to a shop now smh

Love this! Great information 👍🏼

My biggest flex is being a subscriber since 18k and going through highschool listening to those OG videos.

Totally understand Evan. Do what makes more sense to you and makes you happy.

Your story is exactly my story I have two I S3 hundred I literally just bought one already fully built turbo swapped. Everything works has none of the problems that you experienced was done by a very well-known to Jay-Z builder, so I basically took all the good parts off my old I S and put onto the turbo one to make one car.

I'd much rather see the sportcross. I understand and support your decision. Gotta stay happy in what you're doing man.

I think why viewers get so attached to your cars is because they live vicariously through you. So it’s almost like it’s they’re car

Good video, Evan. I'm vibing with the upcoming content; I have a gray IS manual sedan. I've also had an SC and a familiar first car experience of slinging an engine into a turbo Subaru after blowing it up lol. I have a tidbit on running a front facing intake manifold and throttle body on an IS and how it relates to passing emissions. Especially for an aftermarket one, it seems nearly impossible to do without the stock ECU being unhappy and throwing a code when it doesn't have all the ETCS stuff hooked up to the throttle body. You may be able to do a JDM GTE ECU and be good on CELs, but the JDM ECUs won't work with US OBDII emissions. The only way I think you can for sure have no issues is to run a USDM GTE VVTi ECU which are just impossible to find. Not sure if you care about passing emissions or if you were planning to go full standalone anyway, but I figured I would share this recent autism fixation lol since you said the sportcross is supposed to be a daily and you wanted a front facing intake manifold. It would be awesome to see if you come up with a way to run a clean FFIM with a happy stock ECU with a piggyback system. This is really silly, but the only other way I can logistically figure out how you could do it is to slap the stock throttle body under the seat or in the trunk or something fully hooked to just the stock ECU. I feel like you'd need a second throttle cable going to it as well, or at least an input signal teed from your actual throttle body TPS to the stock ECU to act as the pedal position sensor signal, so it doesn't throw a code when it realizes the phony throttle has no relation to the engine RPM. I think it could get wigged out if you had stock traction control on too when it cuts throttle on wheel spin and the RPM doesn't drop. You would certainly think there's an easier way to do this and someone out there probably knows. Anyway thanks for coming to my niche 2J Ted Talk

Updates on the Evo? Your videos have been wildly all over the place lately I wanna see a complete series finished. Especially the Evo!

Love it can’t wait for the build

why not reach out to wiring specialities and have them make you a nice new harness? then drop that 30k drivetrain into the wagon. seems like a good way to start over without losing all of the value you poured into the sedan

Glad you’re redoing it fresh. There’s a saying “buy once and cry once”, cheap builds aren’t always the way to go. Is300s are not cheap nor easy cars to mod, that’s one of the reasons I sold mine

OG vlog style video sits well 👌🏼

It’s your fault for fuckin up the is300 because the vvti rods thin asf lmao even i knew the rod was gone do that

The Body control module is in the ecu all as one. When you go stand alone you have to keep the factory ecu to run the interior and dash ect

This is my first noti in SO LONG. RU-vid been gatekeeping

Its so Unfortunate the red is300 started stock and is ending up as a shell but i guess shit happens

I've been waiting for this video for so long. Thank you I can finally go to bed.

Honestly hyped for the new is300 build

One of my first enthusiast cars was a red IS. I loved it but I regrettably sold it. I miss that car.

Makes sense

I remember you asking what to build next and i said sport cross and you said you couldn't find one...here we are lol finally

thank you for all the headaches i really wanted to boost my is300 i just bought but honestly its not worth it to me ima just swap a 60k motor in it and make it look pretty and beat the hell out of it and drift it anytime i want and not worry about it breaking

Retracted my comment. Still looking forward to meeting you in Toronto, Canada..... we R the North LOL

Start with a custom harness remove everything use a haltech harness

Why didn't you ever put the 2jz vvti you had for the longest time in to the is? Did you sell it? Why not throw it in the sport cross?

"simple is key, but that's just me!"

And some one must have botched that wiring before selling it there’s no way because I had my Lexus is300 for years and it was a 2003 running great no Christmas tree dash at 279,000 miles and man I thrashed that thing up

Hey Evan you probably won’t read this but so you know I’m running a nat 2jzge vvti with 2jzgte vvti aristo harness and stock ecu with intake using rad industries adapter in my gs300 and it was very simple and starts and drive’s every time

I think the sport cross is much cooler. Can't wait to see the body kit on that one

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm waiting on my 3sgte wagon to arrive stateside so I can sell my tl

We need a 'How to shift quick' 2023 edition with the STi

You got some of the coolest cars ever bruh

You do you boo

Rewiring a chassis is easy. Deleting the module from the beginning would be easier and would have fixed those issues same with the fire just rebuilding the harness and simplifying it would have made it work some wiring specialists you hired lol. It's no different than making an engine harness. 😅

Yeah you went a bit over board on the builds instead of just using them having fun. I'd say get everything running. Keep the R33 and enjoy it. You can always make it more streetable. I get it though buying lots of cars is nice but you gotta finish a car before you buy another other wise it just stacks up and you get overwhelmed and this kind of stuff happens

I love the is300 but you should not get rid of it just rebuild it tbh it’s a great car

What about the orange EVO????!!!! So many evo shops around the country someone has to have been able to figure it out by now!!!

that thing will be a clean shell

Waiting for the sti to get tuned and make some sauce

I'm sorry I just had to point out how it was funny seeing a SF beacon in the STi.

Sportcross is my favorite car

Is there no company like Wiring Specialties that make or can make a full harness that could fix the red IS300?

I got noti for the first time in months

Currently working on doing my speakers in an 05 is300. These things suck to modify if you're not just redoing everything it seems like.

Can relate to with my e92 and I still need to bring my main car Aka hr 350z

kinda feels like 2013 out here

Lemme get the trans out of the sedan 🤣🤣🤣

Yes, let's go🎉🎉🎉. ultimate dad wagon

I don’t understand how you don’t have 1 mil yet

Hey Evan I was wondering if I could have the alternator off the red is, mine blew out a few days ago😭😭

definitely build the sportcross

If you are switching the chassis i think you have to make the autocross red, for your families nostalgia sake

I wanna see the kit on the red is on the wagon

Red eye S300 👀

Hey Evan, just wanted to say you're killing it! Keep up the great work!

honestly the only 2 cars I would be super sad to see got are the OG STI and the r33. all the other cars could go for the right reason

Rebuild the is300 and let your new mechanic build it on a separate channel for him

When is the R34 arriving

I wonder if I can get the neutral safety switch connector from the wireloom?

Evan any updates on the evo?

Are you still going to finish the AWD civic?

I watched you since the supra build, it sucks to see you'll sell it😔💔

I had one

Evan i live in south africa and have bought 4 different is300’s to build my dream build😂 so i love this idea❤

Mike Mike buying this

ANTI THEFT MODULE! On the red is300 Blew mine on my sc300. Fucked the whole car over. Ended up rubbing through the harness causing a short and frying the anti theft module

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS IS300 SPORTX GANGGGGGGGG

Wagon Supremacy

Long live Meg the is300!!! 😢

You originally got the red is300 for a giveaway car. Why not just do that with it?

They make custom harness for the car

dont the majority of the cars come with a bcm?

Sport cross + red IS300 = Red STI

love ya bro. (no homo)

More space for the kids

Red is300 looking like a good drift car right about now