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Old Dec 19, 2013 | 05:33 PM
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Talking Kchow510's Tungsten Pearl IS250 very slow build

Hello everyone! It's about to be 2years of owning my 2IS, so I decided to start a build thread.

07 IS250 RWD W/ Premium Package. I will continue to update slowly.

Enjoy.

Got the car back in 2012.
F-Sport Shift **** and de-badged
F-Sport style front grille
Tinted Tails and swapped wood trim for Black Opal Mica Trim
Won F-Sport Intake at Lexus Evolution 2012 (Got ticket for tinted tails right after LOL)
Installed BC Coilovers
Swapped Tinted Tails back to oem and added red outs
Installed 6k HID and yellow fogs
Test Fitted friend's Work VS-Mesh 18x9.5 18x.10.5 +15
Test Fitted friend's Work Equips 18x10 +10
CF Flat bottom steering wheel with blue stitching
Blue/White LED dash conversion done by 2slow (Tim)
Picked up some TE37's in Candy Red 19x9.5 19x10.5 +22
Picked up some HRE 560c's in Charcoal Grey 19x9.5 +12 19x10.5 +14 Photos here.


















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Photos By Zach Zadoo - https://www.facebook.com/ZachZadooPhotography











Photos By Zach Zadoo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/zachzadoophoto/





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New wheels - HRE 560c

Blue TE37s

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Old Dec 19, 2013 | 06:31 PM
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Nice clean build and great shots! You should have "test fitted" those equips for a while haha

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Old Feb 16, 2014 | 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by willSFP
Nice clean build and great shots! You should have "test fitted" those equips for a while haha
Haha thanks! I'm thinking of getting some equips or maybe vsxx.
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Old Feb 17, 2014 | 09:22 AM
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love the interior led lights and the steering wheel nice stuff!!!
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Old Feb 17, 2014 | 10:11 PM
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Very nice. Hopefully I'll see you around at meets or something
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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 08:54 AM
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Man im loving your car! I would really want to do that interior blue led swap like you did, was it very hard to do? And also how hard is it to change out the grilles?
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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 10:28 PM
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Looking good!
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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 11:33 PM
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man those equips looked SO sick on there. i wanted a set for my IS so bad at one point but clearing the dam is350 brake was my achilles heel
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by flattire
Man im loving your car! I would really want to do that interior blue led swap like you did, was it very hard to do? And also how hard is it to change out the grilles?
Thanks! I had CL member 2slow do them! It took at about 5hrs to do. It's pretty easy to swap out. Someone made a DIY thread on it.

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man those equips looked SO sick on there. i wanted a set for my IS so bad at one point but clearing the dam is350 brake was my achilles heel
Thanks! Find a set that clears them!
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Old Feb 28, 2014 | 06:12 PM
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Nice build thread kevin, i didnt know 2Slow was still around. How much did he charge you for all the work?
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Old Feb 28, 2014 | 06:17 PM
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Nice build thread kevin, i didnt know 2Slow was still around. How much did he charge you for all the work?
He's still in SF and not in the car game anymore. I'll PM you what he charged me.
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Old Mar 9, 2014 | 06:01 AM
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what is red outs mean?is it red film,or somethig else?
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Old Apr 3, 2014 | 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by lemans777
what is red outs mean?is it red film,or somethig else?
Yeah, red film on the yellow turn signals.
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Old Apr 3, 2014 | 10:43 PM
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we need more photographers like you in socal
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Old Apr 3, 2014 | 11:18 PM
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Slow and steady wins the race lol but for real it looks great. Attention to detail goes a long way
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