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time for another Report from the Junkyard

since the Lexus GS450h powerplant seems to be a popular conversion combo for rear wheel drive vehicles and since I live 2 miles away from the world's largest wrecking yard that allows you to pull your own parts I figure I will share with you a mini series I like to call "The Junkyard Report" where I share with you mostly through pictures what some of the OEM EV conversion parts look like and where they reside on our beloved GS450h in the wild, how hard they are to pull and should or should you not bother with using them on your own project

this time we got ourselves The OEM Floor Shifter

Year: 2007 (3rd Generation ie 2007-2011)
Make: Lexus
Model: GS450h

Parts Pull Difficulty (PPD): Pretty Easy

I actually pulled two of these from two different 2007 Lexi, so I will share pics of both, so first here is how we find them in the wild

please forgive some of the redundancy in pics from the other posts in this series, I would like for each thread to be able to stand on it's own

I was actually surprise how quickly stuff disappeared off of the black one, I was there only 3 days after the car arrived and the inverter was already gone, and looked like someone left a cougar in the cabin


this is how I found the center console

so my OCD made it put it back sort of in it's place for the photo opp

here's a birds eye view of the center console, I wish I took pics of it after I got it out of the car, I may go back and to that just so you can see the 17 different pieces that make up this abomination


pretty sure a chipmunk owned this car

took some pics of the linkage down below


here I am trying to show how far back and above the transmission the actual shifter sits, it's almost a foot back of the tail of the transmission, I could have sworn it was right above it in the middle, but nope, glad I took these pics

and she's out for her close ups


so I believe and correct me if I am wrong, we are not really shifting actual gears with this thing, all this thing does is lock the transmission when in Park and all the other settings unlock it and just send electronic signals to the VCU telling it to either send positive torque signals when in Drive or negative torque signals when in Reverse, as there is no actual reverse gear in this transmission, it's just a gear reduction jobbie

somebody wanna 3D print us a cover for this beauty?