Romanova's 2006 LS430 build/blog
I had contact with Central Pine. Called them personally about 4 times and the 5th time I got them on the phone. Asked about the Silk Blaze steering wheel and they had one for sale. After that I wanted to pay to make the purchase. No more contact. I give them 7 emails and several calls... no answer. When you are talking live to the guy its ok but when making deals I am very disappointed with this company.
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Less than 36 hours from Osaka Japan to Cypress Texas. Pretty impressed. Rims are in good shape, one has some light curb rash and they all have a few nicks in the paint. Will probably just mount them up and then get them refinished this summer. Need to clean off the wheel weights and the old adhesive and then seal the barrels. Will also be ordering spacers for the front and back.
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JDM fog lights are in. To remove the fogs, you have to remove the bumper, which was easier than I thought it would be. You might be able to get them out from below but I doubt it. Removing the bumper was probably a 30 minute job, working slow. For the JDM fogs, I ended up not wiring in the second bulb. I really didn't want them as turn signals since we already have turn signals in the main housing and I didn't want them as a city light to detract from the actual fog light itself. I mean, I was mainly going for the yellow capsule look, which I achieved. Thanks to @onthelo for the bulb suggestion. I'm running Cree 9006 5k LED bulbs and the color in conjunction with the capsule is spot on. Can't wait to get another picture when it gets a bit darker.
Rims are up next and should be done by next Friday. I found Project Kics spacers on YAJ, so I will be doing the 15mm front / 25mm rear and will be ordering those soon. I also want to address the brake fluid and do a drain and fill on the transmission and then just start driving it a bit more.
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Looking clean man! Just curious if I might be missing something -- why would you need to remove the bumper to change the fogs? When I changed my fog bulbs I just removed the wheel liners and had more than enough room to do anything I wanted with the fogs. But I also didn't attempt to remove the housings so there's probably something I didn't see maybe?
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Wow that was super quick! those BBS's look awesome...
Good work with the JDM fogs! they look great...makes me want a pair !
I've been wanting to purchase items on YAJ but never fully committed, seems complicated and after reading reviews online a lot of the times the items once arrived arent in the condition they were described/advertised...
Good work with the JDM fogs! they look great...makes me want a pair !
I've been wanting to purchase items on YAJ but never fully committed, seems complicated and after reading reviews online a lot of the times the items once arrived arent in the condition they were described/advertised...
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Racer
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Wow that was super quick! those BBS's look awesome...
Good work with the JDM fogs! they look great...makes me want a pair !
I've been wanting to purchase items on YAJ but never fully committed, seems complicated and after reading reviews online a lot of the times the items once arrived arent in the condition they were described/advertised...
Good work with the JDM fogs! they look great...makes me want a pair !
I've been wanting to purchase items on YAJ but never fully committed, seems complicated and after reading reviews online a lot of the times the items once arrived arent in the condition they were described/advertised...
Wow that was super quick! those BBS's look awesome...
Good work with the JDM fogs! they look great...makes me want a pair !
I've been wanting to purchase items on YAJ but never fully committed, seems complicated and after reading reviews online a lot of the times the items once arrived arent in the condition they were described/advertised...
Good work with the JDM fogs! they look great...makes me want a pair !
I've been wanting to purchase items on YAJ but never fully committed, seems complicated and after reading reviews online a lot of the times the items once arrived arent in the condition they were described/advertised...
I will say that unless the item has been new, I've been disappointed in some way by everything I've purchased so far. The pictures aren't high quality and the description is vague some times. Still, it's the only way to get some of these parts so you have to roll the dice.
Romanova the capsule looks great, eagerly awaiting nighttime shots! I'm torn on 3000k or doing 6000k and matching some D2S bulbs from Osram.
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The two curbed rims are back from repair and look pretty good. The rim faces still have some imperfections, but I was only concerned with the curbage as a few nicks are going to occur during install or as a result of everyday driving. Should be able to get them down to Discount Tire tomorrow and get them mounted up to my existing tires that are currently on my OEM 18s.
Central Pine has had them a few times but the price is always super high it seems. Revision Audio in Hawaii had them before but I think he only sells to the locals. If I ever find a set in great condition, I'm going to jump on it. It would be easier if you wanted something like the Tom's kit... there are NOS Tom's skirts on YAJ right now. To me though, the Tom's kit looks really bad as the front and rear bumpers are different.
I remember Revision Audio had some nice stuff. I've bought some smaller items from him and he shipped them. I keep seeing the Tom's kit pop up but I like the OEM one better. There was a really nice Aimgain kit I saw but it costs as much as a second LS.