Originally Posted by jleonard71

For anyone interested in ToothDoc's ISF that he traded in, I have been talking with the dealer and they are willing to take $36,500 for it as-is, not a penny less. He said that in about a week they are going to put it back to STOCK and then they will actually be listing it higher at $38,900 due to the extra parts & labor required to put it back to stock. So if you want a nicely modded ISF at a very good price, get in touch with them ASAP! Here's what all of the upgrades on that car are worth (at least the ones I know about):
PPE Headers - $1,800 installed
Borla Exhaust - $1,200 installed
FIGS 2-pc rotors - $2,200 + installation
BC Coilovers - $1,000 + installation

So that's at least $6,200 in upgrades, plus he told me they just installed brand new OEM brake pads and also did a full detail including touching any chips/dings in the paint. If you are in the market for an ISF and plan to do those mods, you can look at it as basically getting the car for $30K even - which is a HELL of a deal! Plus the upside to this is you can roll the mods into your loan and not have to come out of pocket for them.

I was considering buying it myself and selling my stock ISF because those are the EXACT mods that I have planned, but I did the math and after paying taxes, shipping, and then selling my car I'd only clear about $1,000 less than what it would cost me to just do the mods myself. But a big part of that is because I have an extended warranty on my current car that I bought for $3,500, and if I cancel that I'll only get a partial credit back and then have to spend another $3,500 to buy one for that car. So if it weren't for the warranty that I already bought for me car I'd probably do it.

Originally Posted by vbb

Yeah, he kinda had me thinking a little bit too. I jumped on Cars.com to price out a nice used 911 Turbo... came up with a few 2008 911 Turbo models (not even the Turbo S) with about 20K miles for $95,000... then promptly forgot ALL about that idea, lol!

I would love to step up to ToothDoc's level at some point, but we're talking quite a ways down the road. For now, I'll continue to read 6speedonline and dream.

Originally Posted by jleonard71

So that's at least $6,200 in upgrades, plus he told me they just installed brand new OEM brake pads and also did a full detail including touching any chips/dings in the paint. If you are in the market for an ISF and plan to do those mods, you can look at it as basically getting the car for $30K even - which is a HELL of a deal! Plus the upside to this is you can roll the mods into your loan and not have to come out of pocket for them.

Originally Posted by ToothDoc

Actually, the first detail by Lexus screwed it up and made it worse. I had it detailed by a couple of guys called "Brothers" in Mundelein and they removed ALL the swirl marks and only they had handwashed it since. Midwest Motors has just essentially mirror buffed it some more. I love the Lexus paint. I actually think my Obsidian IS-F flashed more than the Turbo S black paint.