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Old 11-21-11, 04:19 PM
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Hay everyone. Name is Aaron. I'm 26, prior navy, and loving my new 90 ls400. I just picked it up 3 weeks ago for $1100. Has 165470 miles right now. Already put 1000 miles on it. It drives great. Has a miss but ill give it a tune up soon. Looks good for a car that I got for $1100.




So what's all wrong with it? Well needs a new paintjob, what 20 yr old car doesn't need one if it hasn't had one already. Has bout 10 small hail dents, but I'm in KS and iv seen cars newer than 2000 and where totaled out cuz of hail damage, so 10 small hail dings are fine by me. Sun roof is cracked but doesn't leak so whatever. Has a miss, eh, needs a tune up, like that's hard to do. 3 tares on the lether on the drivers seat, ill recover it. Drivers mirror glass is cracked, umm whatever, that's a cheep fix. 6 disc cd changer doesn't work, I plan on a new dubble din touch screen anyway and the raido still works. **** on the raido is gone so I can't turn it off or control the volume but its at a nice volume so its all good, to shut off the raido I just hit the cd button since the cd player doesn't work anyway.
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This post is subject to frequent change due to mod lits updating.

Mods done
1) LED lights in lisendse plate lamps.
2) 18"x9.5" Rota Grids 235/40/18 front 235/45/18 rear

Mods not done yet.
*Eagle Eyes headlights <--------------------- had since christmas, never installed yet.
*Red Clear Red tails
*magnaflow exhaust
*black paintjob
*K&N airfilter
*all crome wraped in carbon fiber vinyl
*25% tint
*custom sub box housing 2 12" subs W/ port going through stock sub location
*custom VIP style center consle for rear seat
*nitrous for thoes cocky civic's
*double din dvd player
*HID headlights
*HID fog lights
*LED lights replacing all other lights
*swap out tan inrerior for black interior
*coilovers, not shure of the brand yet.
*brakes, not shure on the brand yet.

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Old 11-21-11, 04:41 PM
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I am by no means new to the way forums work. I always use the search option b4 asking a question. I already know of a list os stuff ill be doing to fix the car up nicely. I know how to properly modd a car and have given advice to lots of different people. For anyone curious bout what OCR stands for, its "Orange Cone Racing". I already know that I'm going to get 19" XXR 522 extream concave wheels, custom magnaflow exhaust, k&n airfilter, eagle eyes headlights, red clear tails. Not shure on the suspention setup yet, I'm still researching for that one. HP is not as important to me as brakes and handeling. I don't like to slow down during turns. Better suspintion means better gas milage, more responcive, and easyr to predict. I plan on building the car to be a daily driver that can still be taken to the race track to see what's the best lap times I can throw down.
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Welcome to the group. LOTS/TONS of info available on this site. Congrads on the pickup.
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Originally Posted by trukn1
Welcome to the group. LOTS/TONS of info available on this site. Congrads on the pickup.
Haha.. you said pickup and ur name is trukn.. lol not that funny but it made me smerk.
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Welcome to the club. Man, that was pretty cool to pick-up a ls400 for 1100 bucks. event with a few issues.
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Welcome. I think i saw that car on craigslist. I always check it for ls400 see if anyone is parting one out. See one every now and than.

See you around town.
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I have a 1990 too, with 162k miles on it, such great cars. There are a few different companies making coilovers for the ls400, definitely worth checking out.
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Originally Posted by Lexmex
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couldn't have said it better, welcome nice car
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Originally Posted by johnnyg66
Welcome. I think i saw that car on craigslist. I always check it for ls400 see if anyone is parting one out. See one every now and than.

See you around town.

what ya got done to her?

mod # 1 came in the mail. fireflys LED lisends plate lamps.
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I just orderd some eagle eyes headlights!! looking forward to getting them. i know the corners look gay but ill try em out. might open em up and put a s#!+ ton of leds inside and make em into driving lights.
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welcome to the forum. Get some pix of those eagle eyes when you get them installed.
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Originally Posted by ocr
what ya got done to her?

mod # 1 came in the mail. fireflys LED lisends plate lamps.
Put leds on all interior lights. Makes it a lot brighter. Clear tail and eagles. I left the new corners on because one of my old ones was cracked. Had to replace all door speakers. Put aux input on nak radio. Repaired dash lights. Just put those new stainless steel tail pipes. New rims but kept them 15". Put megan coilovers.

Other stuff had to be fixed under the hood so now runs great.

Have fun with yours.


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