Chin, we usually have a SELOC (South Eastern Lexus Owners Club) meet the 3rd Friday of the month at the Starbucks off Piedmont and Lenox, right in the Buckhead area. Where in Buckhead do you live?

 

That interior is awesome. GL with the build man.

 

Really coming along nicely thanks for the sideskirts

 

post moreeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

Thank you.

I'm close to the Starbucks, I can pretty much walk there.

Thank you and I need a little luck the way things are going...

Thanks and you are welcome.

Will do, right now...

I almost wrapped up all the wiring for my audio install, most of the car is back together and just deciding on sub & amp placement. I picked up a JL six channel for now, this is just to hold me over until the big boys come in. It's amazing how small the JL is. I ran new speaker wire to the factory amp (for now). Will replace all speaker wires the next round of modding when I decide on components.

I need your opinion from the paint pro's on this board if you are reading this. They say pearl is one of the hardest colors to match. I am not 100% happy how my paint turned out. The quality of the work is fine but the color seems off to me, way off. I attached a pic of the roof, the gas lid, and the newly painted roof spoiler for you guys to check out. It's hard to tell in the pics but to me the newly painted parts are too white and not enough pearl/metallic is in the paint. Keep in mind my car is also dirty. Am I asking too much of a painter if I want the match near perfect and the adjacent panels not to be blended? I wanted to stay away from blending because my factory paint is near perfect and I didn't want to touch them. Do you guys think the only acceptable way to get a decent result is to paint the parts on the car and blend adjacent panels?









What do you guys think about saddle leather and black wood? I have a full set of black wood pieces laying around. I'm thinking it may look too busy, but I want to do it because I would probably be the ONLY person with that combo. It was never offered by Lexus. I may just have to pop the black wood on a door panel when I install my new speakers and see how it looks in person. The other thing I love about my interior is the wood wheel. If I go black wood, there is no matching black wood wheel, it's just black perf leather. I have to do a search because I think someone had it done custom and it looked great, but that's just more $ to spend and I want to get the cosmetics/suspension done with so I can move on to some horsepower gains. If I don't use the black wood (I'll decide in a week or so), the full package will be available, center console has heated seats. I also have a full black Sport Design leather interior out of a 2002 that will be up for sale as well Better than the black from other years because it's perf leather on the seats and the piping in gray from the factory, give you a little contrast and ties into the headliner

 

looks good! you have a really nice platform to start on, for the black wood, i would say why not? THEYRE DOPE!! something that's fairly rare!

 

I'm not a pro but you are right.. the new painted stuff looks really bright white.. does not look like a match from the pictures..

FYI, the 04-05 GS430's came with the perforated leather too.. (not the grey piping though.. which does look slick).

I want to see the black wood with with saddle give us a pic!!

Overall your car is going together fast!

 

Your car has 3 stage paint so if thEy didnt use 3 stage paint process when they painted thE kit it wont have that pearl look like the rest of the paint. It doesnt look bad and you gotta remember your comparing freshly painted parts to old paint.

 

Finally got my aero parts on, car is dirty in these pics, hasn't been washed in 2 months. I still have to tweak the front and rear bumpers slightly to get them to line up better and re-install the chrome strips. I may extend the tips on the exhaust so they are a little more flush with the opening, or I may just leave it the way it is. Car wont be lowered until I get another car for my wife, I'm really not in the mood for her to curb the bumpers. Finished all the wiring with my stereo, just have to decide on speakers, but for now I just stuck a 10" ported box in the trunk and have a JL amp on the stock mids/highs and it sounds great. Amazing what a little power will do. Not sure how much longer the stock speakers will last though.

 

good stuff

 

Looking good. It'll look much better once it's lowered. Good luck finding a car for your wife.

 

Is it possible for you to repaint the front half of the front fenders and blend/mix them so that its less noticeable? Front bumper and sideskirts do look whiter than the rest of the car, but I guess its also cause your car is dirty like you said.

 

I say do it

 

Lookin' good!

 

Looks great! Needs some wheels though!