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Old 04-10-10 | 08:15 AM
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Hi Everyone,

I'm a first time CL and first time Lexus owner and so far the 350 doesn't disappoint so I was very pleased driving it off the lot. I washed, waxed and polished it to get ready for the weekend. Eventually I will get my CCFL Halos in so I can post more pics.
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Old 04-10-10 | 09:05 AM
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looks clean bro. congrats and welcome
Old 04-10-10 | 09:06 AM
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wow, nice car man
congrats!

so u have a gfx kit?
and is that Smokey Granite Mica??

you lucky americans with ur IS350's!!!
here in australia we still gotta wait till the end of 2010 for the 350!
my 250 will have to do till the 3IS i guess, lol

anyway, again congrats on the car!
Old 04-10-10 | 09:46 AM
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I love the g spyder rims
Old 04-10-10 | 10:29 AM
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congrats! & welcome to CL..
Old 04-10-10 | 10:31 AM
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congrats and welcome to CL! car looks sick! do you have any other mods planned?
Old 04-10-10 | 11:18 AM
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Congrats man. Do you research on those halos though, I hear they are a huge pain to install and are easily susceptible to failure.
Old 04-10-10 | 11:51 AM
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It is the Smoke Granite but it doesn't have any gfx kits I'm researching puddle lights right now. The Halos are a pain and the one way they do fail is if the installation was a mess up since you have to know exactly how to take off the plastic from the housing, but as far as life span they last 70,000 hours, and the main thing i want to do performance wise is throwin on a cold air intake and get this thing supercharged
Old 04-10-10 | 12:27 PM
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^ You must have the X-package, because that's definitely the GFX front lip on your car. All you need are the side skirts and rear to complete it.

For performance, the only feasible options are intake, exhaust and headers. I don't know if they even make the superchargers anymore (LMS and Tom's were the two companies who made them I believe), but it'll cost you over $6k for 50 HP. Check the thread from Elite Motorsports. They're trying to make a turbo kit but need a donor car.
Old 04-10-10 | 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by RickyIS350
It is the Smoke Granite but it doesn't have any gfx kits I'm researching puddle lights right now. The Halos are a pain and the one way they do fail is if the installation was a mess up since you have to know exactly how to take off the plastic from the housing, but as far as life span they last 70,000 hours, and the main thing i want to do performance wise is throwin on a cold air intake and get this thing supercharged

If you want to supercharge it you bought the wrong car.

LMS sold a kit for a while, $6000 for 5 lbs of boost. Just about nobody bought one though so they stopped.

12:1 factory compression is a *****
Old 04-10-10 | 03:26 PM
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Congrats and welcome to CL. Your car looks nice. I once had g-spiders too and love them.
Old 04-10-10 | 03:44 PM
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I loke those wheels only on the black IS. looks great
Old 04-10-10 | 04:28 PM
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Congrats and good choice for car!
Old 04-10-10 | 05:47 PM
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I love them rims on that car..... Nice looking car in general
Old 04-10-10 | 06:06 PM
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Sharp car! Love the spider rims. Looks like you forgot to clean them, no?


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