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My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - Sparkystav - 31-03-2024
More great praise for Richards work
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - el_bandido - 31-03-2024
Not my cup of tea, but I can appreciate the workmanship.
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - FOSSIL FUELS - 01-04-2024
Looks really tidy... Seriously high gloss finish.
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - dougie175 - 01-04-2024
Yeah hes done a top job, very impressed with his work and Im pleased with them. They don't look out of place and look as though they came from factory like this which is always my aim with my mods.
Over the moon with them, much nicer than the horrible baby blue they were before
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - dougie175 - 06-04-2024
Bit more progress made this week
These arrived yesterday:
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So this evening I managed to get the rears on, this is far from the final height or where I will have the suspension set, I will work that out once I have the fronts on and I have given them a few miles to settle in and then work out exactly what height I want that looks right, but will give you an idea
![[Image: 2016-05-18%2020.43.55.jpg]](http://s9.photobucket.com/user/dougie175/media/2016-05-18%2020.43.55.jpg.html)
Random photo showing the arch gap, its pretty close but just seems to miss the quarter panel lip, which is nice saves me having to do any arch rolling and such which I wasn't looking forward too as I have never seen it done well enough without the need for filler and painting!
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Some of you may have noticed in the picture above the addition of a rear upper glass spoiler, I'm still not 100% on this but I am thinking it will be complimented by the new smoothed wald spoiler that I am currently on with achieving on the tailgate, you may noticed I have removed the f-sport spoiler.
Basically once the new spoiler is smoothed in it will look like the images below, however this is a good 25-30 hour job to make a wald spoiler looks as nice as this as there is some serious work to stop it looking like it is just stuck ontop of the tailgate and make it look like it is 1 with the metal
This is how a half smoothed wald would look like, far from the standard I would be happy with
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This is what I am looking to achieve over the next few weeks, but it is literally hours and hours of work and rubbing
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![[Image: 258514d1347827297-the-molded-wald-spoile..._small.jpg]](http://www.clublexus.com/forums/attachments/is-2nd-gen-2006-2013/258514d1347827297-the-molded-wald-spoiler-club-how-many-of-us-are-there-2012-09-14-11.11.52_small.jpg)
I think the upper spoiler will work perfectly with the smoothed wald spoiler!
Fingers crossed I may get time tomorrow evening to get the front coilovers in!
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - Sparkystav - 06-04-2024
I like the smoothed spoiler!
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - Is200kid - 06-04-2024
By god bud u have put some lovely work to the car and I enjoyed reading them ��
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - FOSSIL FUELS - 07-04-2024
Smoothed spoilers really work on the 2nd gens
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - dougie175 - 07-04-2024
Sparkystav I like the smoothed spoiler!
FOSSIL FUELS Smoothed spoilers really work on the 2nd gens
Yeah its a heck of a lot of work to create a truly smooth spoiler but I feel it is worth it.
Is200kid By god bud u have put some lovely work to the car and I enjoyed reading them ��
Thanks, I have only just started to be honest, there will be plenty more to come.... however we Have just found my wife is 7 weeks pregnant so there is a deadline rapidly approaching where I can no longer tinker lol!
My Lexus IS250 Build Thread - dougie175 - 07-04-2024
Bit more progress this evening, I managed to get the front coilovers in also, really impressed with the quality of the Meister R's they seem very good. What impresses me most about them though is that they are not bone shatteringly hard, which was something I was extremely keen to avoid on such a comfortable car as the IS250
Took a few pictures but please be aware this is not the final ride height (it will be somewhere around this after a bit of working out what looks best and avoiding any scraping), its basically as they came out the box with a bit of screwing up where required so they don't destroy my tyres.
The final height will not be what a lot of people call "low" it will just be sporty with a nice shape around the wing to tyre, I think it looks silly once the wings start coming over the top of the tyres personally but its each to their own
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