LuPix_S15
Banned Toyota Lover
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Hola :wave:
Ok, with the Stagea gone lol :wack: I sorted out my 'daily driver' cough 'mini project' last week by looking at a few cars but in the end settled on a lovely red, mint condition Lexus IS200 Sport with 90k miles on the clock.
I thought long and hard about my original idea of a small runabout vehicle but the missus was banging on about having 4 or 5 doors and all this rubbish about having summat more family oriented
I was trying to convince her a Yaris T-Sport is very family oriented but she won so I decided sod it I'm getting an E36 323i or IS200!!
To me surprise there weren't that many 323i's about with mileage below 100k and I wasn't going to travel more than 30 miles to view my future daily driver!! So last Tue evening I went to pick up this cracking IS200 Sport which Ben had owned for about 5 years... only 1 previous owner before him!! We settled on £2,750 so was well pleased keeping within my budget :thumbs:
Before last Tue evening I was already on the blower to Leon @ EP Racing and had already ordered a Top Secret style front lip which arrived on the Thursday. This was my initial test fit:
Went on like a dream with only very minor trimming required on the ends
I've got a set of genuine AVS Model 5 rims lying about in the garage which needed a good home (had these from my S15 when she came over from Japan lol) so gave them all a clean and ready to fit after the tyres were swapped over:
Did all my prep work for the front lip (many thanks to Gav for all the advice on painting fibreglass!):
Quick shot of the dials:
Telford Exhaust chaps getting a new Powerflow rear can fitted (awesome straight six audio!!):
Olly, my lad helping me dry the base coat hehe:
And here she is after less than a week collecting her from Ben - upgraded AVS rims, prepped/painted/fitted TS style front lip myself and also nice sounding exhaust sorted
Ok, with the Stagea gone lol :wack: I sorted out my 'daily driver' cough 'mini project' last week by looking at a few cars but in the end settled on a lovely red, mint condition Lexus IS200 Sport with 90k miles on the clock.
I thought long and hard about my original idea of a small runabout vehicle but the missus was banging on about having 4 or 5 doors and all this rubbish about having summat more family oriented
I was trying to convince her a Yaris T-Sport is very family oriented but she won so I decided sod it I'm getting an E36 323i or IS200!! To me surprise there weren't that many 323i's about with mileage below 100k and I wasn't going to travel more than 30 miles to view my future daily driver!! So last Tue evening I went to pick up this cracking IS200 Sport which Ben had owned for about 5 years... only 1 previous owner before him!! We settled on £2,750 so was well pleased keeping within my budget :thumbs:
Before last Tue evening I was already on the blower to Leon @ EP Racing and had already ordered a Top Secret style front lip which arrived on the Thursday. This was my initial test fit:
Went on like a dream with only very minor trimming required on the ends
I've got a set of genuine AVS Model 5 rims lying about in the garage which needed a good home (had these from my S15 when she came over from Japan lol) so gave them all a clean and ready to fit after the tyres were swapped over:
Did all my prep work for the front lip (many thanks to Gav for all the advice on painting fibreglass!):
Quick shot of the dials:
Telford Exhaust chaps getting a new Powerflow rear can fitted (awesome straight six audio!!):
Olly, my lad helping me dry the base coat hehe:
And here she is after less than a week collecting her from Ben - upgraded AVS rims, prepped/painted/fitted TS style front lip myself and also nice sounding exhaust sorted
