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Old 11-21-09, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Kurtz
Currently PPE is the only company offering IS350 headers I'm aware of, and they're just now doing their first batch of sales... there's another company about to begin development on a set so if that goes through you'll have an alternative. (not that I've heard anything at all bad about PPE, but in case you wanna wait and compare, or at least wait till more than 1 guy has tried the PPEs and gives feedback)
Thank you. By the way - aren't you curious about what your car is now capable of, performance-wise, after the modifications? I know I am...
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Originally Posted by Sal Collaziano
Thank you. By the way - aren't you curious about what your car is now capable of, performance-wise, after the modifications? I know I am...
Not really.

My last car had nearly double the power my IS350 has. The 350's never gonna touch that kind of power, and I've not much interest in dropping a bunch more $ to get only part of the way there.

On the other hand, the 350 gets more than 2x the mileage, is about 50x quieter, and it's uber reliable (which you'll find most 500+ hp cars are not)... and it's still more than quick enough to get out of its own way.
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Well, as it turns out, Lexus lost me as a customer for the second time in a row.. The first time, they offered me $2.50 cents for my mint condition 2005 Cadillac Escalade ESV while BMW gave me something much more palatable.. This time, they wanted to give me $0.59 for my 2006 750Li, and again, I didn't bite. BMW offered me much, much, much more - and I went with a 335i..

So.. I still have the 2010 Lexus RX350 - but no IS350 for now.. Let's see what the redesign is like.. At any rate, these fast cars are fun as hell. I already had a little run-in with an AMG something or other. The Dinan games are about to begin...
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