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Old 06-08-07, 07:44 AM
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Wide body 2GS.... Has it... Could it... SHOULD it, be done?
Does anyone know if there is a wide body kit available for the 2GS?

Of course most of you know I am a show car person so keep that in mind as you ponder the wide body GS. Any pics and ideas/thoughts on this matter would be great.
Old 06-08-07, 08:23 AM
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I would just do major fender modification with aggressive off set rim, but if you're simply looking for the crazy wild wide body look. In the new edition of hyper rev, I believe it was the No.160?(not sure) they had a picture of a crazy wide body aristo in there.
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there's a candy apple red GS on here somewhere with custom wide body.
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Oh i saw that one...it looks...not my taste for sure...its the one with the TV's on the gas cap right?
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My friend had custom sheet metal metal fenders done in front and rear... it's really subtle and kinda hard to tell form the pic, but that's a 20x11.5" in the rear:
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ru talking about the gs or the ls? both are sick but looks like the ls was done wider?
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look how fat the rear tire is on the GS..should answer your question, although the LS has a fat tire too
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The custom flares are subtle to others, but obvious to Lexus owners.
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the only thing I have heard about as far as wide body goes is pulling / stretching rear fenders and putting on aristo front fenders since they are wider.

When I get around to doing my car, I am going to have the rears and fronts pulled to get the most out of em so I can stuff a wider rear, like maybe an 11.5.
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Aren't the Aristo front fenders only like 5-10mm wider?
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I actually thought they were a bit wider than that but dont know for sure. I would think if they were, you could pull them or have a shop do some reshaping to get them out as far as possible.

Actually lightwave76 put them on his car as he is doing some major work, but mentions they are only slightly, so maybe my bad.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...+front+fenders

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I dont think widebody would look that good on a GS, but havent seen it done so cant say for sure. Maybe someone can post the pics of the aristo that ssaristo is referring to? The fenders on the black GS that is posted look perfect though. More photos of that please
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yeah i couldn't tell with the lighting but i brightened it a bit and you can def see the difference. subtle but BAM! lol
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Originally Posted by mole
the only thing I have heard about as far as wide body goes is pulling / stretching rear fenders and putting on aristo front fenders since they are wider.
How much wider are the Aristo Fenders and where the frick can I find them!

and why is it that when looking for Aristo shtuff, 99% of the stuff found are for the 1st gen only....?
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A show car phonetics always keep doing something crazy..which is cool though. I have not seen a wide body on 2GS yet, but would love to see how it was done..something to think about if you want to be totally different..


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