All GS owners with L-TUNED spring setup please report in with picture!
04-25-08, 04:17 PM
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Here's a series of pics of my GS with the L-tuned springs. About 1.2" front drop after settling, and about 1" rear drop after settling. Rides awesome. Looks great, and very minimal extra bumper scraping than OEM. The car feels like a totally different beast around the corners, and has absolutely no "Lexus float" that plagued the OEM setup.
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04-25-08, 04:54 PM
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Here's a series of pics of my GS with the L-tuned springs. About 1.2" front drop after settling, and about 1" rear drop after settling. Rides awesome. Looks great, and very minimal extra bumper scraping than OEM. The car feels like a totally different beast around the corners, and has absolutely no "Lexus float" that plagued the OEM setup.
Very nice, I kind of like the drop! By the way, how many finger gaps in between the fender and the tire in the front?
04-25-08, 05:03 PM
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From front tire to fender, about 3 fingers. Again, this is pretty subjective--it depends on how fat your fingers are. Sorry for the dusty car in the pics--it gets parked outside at work... grr... at least I don't get door dings.
All that I can say is that I have no regrets lowering my car with the L-tuned setup. I'm usually one of the last guys to do anything non-OEM, as I don't want to mess up what Lexus did, but this is definitely something other GS owners should do to get a more controlled ride overall, corners about 3x better with significantly less lean and more composure, gets rid of the Lexus float at freeway speeds, is still 4-wheel alignable to factory specs, rides very like a BMW 5-series with the sport suspension, and enjoy the car for what it can do. Lastly, the car doesn't look "slammed" or "tricked out"--most people don't know that my car was lowered with the L-tuned setup. The subtle drop looks very much like a factory package (it should being that the springs were designed by Lexus's L-tuned division (now defunct)).
The drawbacks are very minimal (SLIGHTLY more scraping of the front bumper on steeper curbs), but other than that it's a 9/10 mod in my book.
All that I can say is that I have no regrets lowering my car with the L-tuned setup. I'm usually one of the last guys to do anything non-OEM, as I don't want to mess up what Lexus did, but this is definitely something other GS owners should do to get a more controlled ride overall, corners about 3x better with significantly less lean and more composure, gets rid of the Lexus float at freeway speeds, is still 4-wheel alignable to factory specs, rides very like a BMW 5-series with the sport suspension, and enjoy the car for what it can do. Lastly, the car doesn't look "slammed" or "tricked out"--most people don't know that my car was lowered with the L-tuned setup. The subtle drop looks very much like a factory package (it should being that the springs were designed by Lexus's L-tuned division (now defunct)).
The drawbacks are very minimal (SLIGHTLY more scraping of the front bumper on steeper curbs), but other than that it's a 9/10 mod in my book.
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04-25-08, 06:48 PM
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heres an old pic of my car. I bought the car in 2003 its a 2001 gs430 L-Tuned series II package. what you see is basically a L-tuned setup which was put in by the dealer before it reached the market so the springs are definately settled....you still have a 2-2.5 finger gap if/when you get 20's
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