Originally Posted by xellos

Made a fairly short road trip in my F recently going home...about 3 hours of driving. Cruising in the F is not bad though I have a couple of complaints. One is that the leather seats get warm over the course of the trip and two is the suspension can be jarring over moderate road imperfections. Otherwise it's great and I can't really stay near 70 (speed limit).

A couple of mildly interesting incidents happened. One was some dumb Camaro (not sure which version) trying to pass me on the right when there's a convoy of slow traffic ahead of me in the left lane. Not sure why people try to do this when they can just peek around and see what's causing the hold up. He then proceeds to tailgate me for w/e reason...maybe hoping that I would let him by into the slow traffic? It's super tempting to brake check, but that's a bit too much. So once the traffic clears and there's open road ahead of me, I go into manual mode and drop the hammer. I get into Mexico speeds in a flash and leave him well behind. Eventually he figures out what happened and flies by me, but only after I slowed back down to reasonable speeds and moved into the right lane. Didn't want to race him but just wanted to give him a taste of my exhaust.

The other incident was going through the toll plaza on the way home. The freaking toll collector asked, "Is that the 8 cylinder? The F?" I don't really expect anyone to recognize the car, especially not some random guy in a toll booth. Would've gave him an extra buck if I could, lol.

Originally Posted by NoFsport

Do it!! it's whole different animal then a v6.

Originally Posted by mikersoft

Uh, the encouragement is nice, but it's a bit too late

Perhaps the thread title should be changed to "Thought of trading in '14 IS350 Fsport for ISF, so I did"

-Mike

Originally Posted by xellos

Looking into getting a Borla exhaust, but I want to hear it in person first before I pull the trigger. As for suspension, I don't see myself doing a lot of track days, so I'm looking at the BC coilovers with swift spring upgrade. Also looked at the 2012 stock suspension or replacing the shocks with Blisteins. The other for sure mod I'll be getting is USRS. Headers may come in the future...we'll see.

As for cosmetic stuff, I'm considering the seibon CF hood. Just wondering if it's a good idea since I park outside in Florida, lol.

Originally Posted by mikersoft

What's the going rate for stock 2012 suspension? Depending on the amount, I may be willing to sell mine to put toward a set of track wheels.

-Mike