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Looking under the hood of this Lexus GS300 will either make you smile or curse. In the engine bay the factory 2JZ has been replaced by a LS1 from a 2004 Pontiac GTO. The current engine setup is producing 320 horsepower and 340 ft-lbs of torque. The engine was installed using DGR Fabrication’s LS motor mount kit. Hanging off each side of the engine are a pair of hooker headers running into a stainless steel Borla exhaust. Head over to Speedhunters<\/a> to see the full list of upgrades.<\/p>\n

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Source: Speedhunters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking under the hood of this Lexus GS300 will either make you smile or curse. In the engine bay the factory 2JZ has been replaced by a LS1 from a 2004 Pontiac GTO. The current engine setup is producing 320 horsepower and 340 ft-lbs of torque. The engine was installed using DGR Fabrication’s LS motor… Read More »Lexus GS300 with a LS1 V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gs300"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Lexus-GS300-with-a-LS1-V8-01.jpg?fit=672%2C448&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18065,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=18065","url_meta":{"origin":1911,"position":0},"title":"For Sale: Lexus GS300 with a LS1 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"September 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This 2000 Lexus GS300 is for sale on eBay with a buy-it-now price of $12,500 in Hurricane, Utah. 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