I would say this is the height the car should have been out of the showroom. I'll do the alignment in about a week to see if they can adjust everything back to stock settings. The ride is virtually identical to stock. Ground clearance has also not been an issue. The headlight aim point however, DID go down slightly when I checked it against my garage door.









Shot of stock GS-350 F-Sport from today's Lexus drive event for comparison. The tires on this one are almost gone from today's events.

 

Thanks for the pics! I am looking forward to getting mine installed

 

Going to use you for my guinea pig if you don't mind.

 

Ditto! I like the look and I think Tanabe does the trick! Thanks --

 

I don't mind at all. I will do pics with measurements before and after.

My springs were shipped last week, should have them for the long weekend. Hopefully the local tire shop can put them on since they do suspension work as well.

 

Looks great!

I just compared my F Sport with my gf's 2013 Accord sedan.

The Accord's front has the same fender gap as the GS at about 3 finger breaths. But the rear has slightly more than two finger breaths. My GS has a solid 4! That's just plain sad that a vanilla family sedan has less fender gap than a sports sedan.

 

Looks very nice as expected. Alignment results should be interesting!

 

I am having my springs installed this Friday and they will check alignment afterwards

 

Unless you are getting a lifetime alignment from Firestone, you should drive it around a little before aligning it. The springs need a little time to settle into the isolators.

 

I'll discuss that with the shop. Makes sense

 

Woot, my springs arrived today!

 

Looks good! Stock height is definitely on the high side, birds could nest in there. Much improved.

 

Hey Terry, did you adjust your headlight aim? I was told that at 10-15 feet (from wall) you want 3-3.5 feet on light height? After my drop I was at about 2 feet, and I really noticed it last night on my first night drive, so today I adjusted my headlight aim up to ~3 feet. Any suggestions on the proper aim point? I am going to take it out tonight and see where I am at.

 

Interesting you should ask.

I have a roll up garage door, so I have it marked on the inside of the roll-up door with the car only a few inches from it.

I have to move mine up exactly one inch from the distance I measured at. Do you have a picture of which holes under the hood are the adjustment screws? The icons are kind of vague to me.

 

I went to the Firestone dealer near my house and got the lifetime alignment.

Everything came into spec EXCEPT the front passenger side camber which was slightly too negative. Unlike the AWD, my car doesn't have camber adjustment in front.

I think what might have helped get alignment back into spec was when I asked the tech that installed my springs to use up the play in the holes and make the camber "as positive" as possible. I didn't look over his shoulder so I'm not sure if he really did that.

I'm going to mess around with the LCA or UCA on that corner and take it back in for another alignment check. I think it's close enough that I might be able to get it to work.