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Old Sep 26, 2019 | 04:03 PM
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Dieting Gone Right or Wrong: IS350 Under Pressure
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Would you strip the body off of your Lexus for a little more fun?

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Old Sep 26, 2019 | 04:50 PM
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I'd mob that like a ****, dope AF ! Not street legal but, perhaps one can request for a street legal build?
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Old Sep 27, 2019 | 07:40 AM
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What besides turn signals would one need to make this street legal though? I LOVE the fact that this build when weighed was only 2200-2300 lbs! Can you imagine a 1000lbs weigh loss AND the off-the-line acceleration this would have! Crazy awesome!

Now, time to throw in an LSD (if they had not yet) and throw a snail on it!
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Old Sep 27, 2019 | 10:51 AM
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Builds like this might be impractical as hell. But I have to say I love the absolute hell out of them. And I love how they kept the Spindle grille! So hot!
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Old Sep 27, 2019 | 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Gville350
Now, time to throw in an LSD (if they had not yet) and throw a snail on it!
This car had recently been supercharged by RR-Racing and is making over 450rwhp on e40. 😁

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Old Sep 27, 2019 | 02:08 PM
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Having built 6+ sandrails from a pile of tubes, why keep the pan?
Grab the two sub-frames and off you go. Win some / lose some....
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Old Sep 30, 2019 | 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by redspencer
This car had recently been supercharged by RR-Racing and is making over 450rwhp on e40. 😁

https://youtu.be/NkjLKM9c6dE
I attempted to locate videos on this ride last week before I posted about it, but came up empty. Odd.

This is soooo cool! I do hope that an LSD is already in it OR a foreseeable future upgrade!
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Old Sep 30, 2019 | 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by FunFact
This is one of the dumbest trends going on right now. It was made cool by Cleetus, because he BOUGHT the car wrecked and it was cheaper to rip it out, but now every dork out there is ripping apart their car to make a pseudo cart. Except, most of them have halfass cage builds that are dangerous and they eliminate the crumple zones.

This car would be destroyed by a bone stock LS3 Corvette that is also safer and handles better. So, it was cool the first few times and now it’s just silly.
I think it would be fun for the track, but driving it on the street obviously has some risk attached.
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Old Sep 30, 2019 | 09:30 PM
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Doesn't look like anything to me.
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