1999 lexus is200 V8 turbo (508BHP!!!!) For sale!!

The daylight photos show how wide it is!!

Have you done the other side yet?

Birthday tomorrow, there are more important things (only slightly mind )

I'm not convinced my 1 year old is keen on beer. Il have one to celebrate for her when she's gone to bed tho haha

Tbf she does..she had a proper strop when I wouldnt let her have it (think it was more she couldn't have what I had, rather than fact it was beer tho) haha

And it looks good doesn't it. Just hoping the back works out as well .

Well.... Didn't get to do a single hands on thing over the weekend... What with kids, Mrs working, clocks changing and cocking kids sleep up, oh and end of the world rain on Saturday I was a sad mat  ... 

So got home yesterday, Mrs out, kids at nursery. Half hour of daylight left and only raining a bit. Passenger side wing off!!  Certainly easier with daylight and knowing where they bolt on!  And to my happiness no rot behind this one either!!!



Quickly dropped the new wing on just to check if would roughly fit.. yep. That should work! Going to be wiiddddeee haha







Also offered the original bumper up to see what crack was. And although it looks a bit daft with the wings being wider than the bumper. I can run it like this if the btcc bumper won't go on (it wont)







So after that, called it done, kids fed/bathed/bed and back out into dark..

Needed to sort headlight mounts out. As mentioned previously the original metal wings have the oustide headlight mounts in. The new fibreglass ones haven't got any mounts. No problem on a race car. Not ideal on a road car..

Butchering the pair of cheapo wings I picked up I chopped front end of them. Than slowly unpicked the spot welds from the headlight brackets. Meaning the bracket can be bolted to the car and the wings mounted over top.. least that was my plan






Quick clean up and a coat of satin black and I've got these to work with..





Didn't get any pics of the bracket fitted but basically the bracket mounts were it did originally. The headlight mounts to the bracket as it did before. And the wing goes over the top and pins it all together..

Quick ten minute getting panel gaps to an acceptable level and here's the finished product..
Wings bolted on properly. Headlights mounted properly. Both doors open. Bonnet fits. Jobs jobbed!!








Now at this point I wanted to try and fit the btcc bumper.. but because everything has moved forward it will not go on.. even with a smidge trimmed off the back edge it won't sit far enough back to fit.. and there's no way il get the intercooler back in at all.. held in place just to get a rough idea it's looking good but it's left me with a dilemma.. do I chop the front off now and move everything back, and make myself a load of work outside in the dark/rain, So I can fit it all proeprly (along with the massive fmic). Or do I bung the standard bumper back on for now so I can run it (I know which way I'm swaying tbh)







Yeah. It's looking good regardless..

Also... 405 bhp is all well and good but without decent brakes it could be considered dangerous haha. I "was" going to fit the used set of decent standard brakes I had.. but obviously not having the correct 6 sided stupid socket thing other night stopped me.. but then the hx50 turbo sold so I may have upgraded slightly...

Enter... 365mm Lexus ISF discs, Evo 4 pot brembo callipers and custom mounts they ought to work. Discs came this morning, should have callipers later this week... There absolutely huuuugggeee haha. For scale that's a 2 inch wide roll of masking tape (was all I had to hand for scale haha).










There proper anchors. So much so they will only just fit behind 18's (still following why I needed to fit the big wings, to fit the big wheels)..

And the callipers themself. These should be with me later in week so this is a picture from the seller..





So that's where I'm up to.. still plenty to do. Still plodding on slowly... Never know. May get to drive it one day

Cheers

Bit of black rally style mud flap on the back edge of the bumper to help it blend for now ?

See id agree.. but the callipers aren't going to be here til later in week. Then I want to paint em up and what not. So in mean time I could be chopping front off (plus I've already got the cooler and all the pipes off so it's half stripped already).. but on other hand we all know how long these ten minute jobs actually take haha

See using my logic (and it's normally massively flawed granted).. I've already got all boost pipes off, intercooler is off, front bumpers off.. it's not "that big" job to chop the front cross member back out and move it up and back.. just relies on it not raining as I can't really work in rain with the welder..

That is indeed the problem.. but I won't melt if I do get wet haha. Just don't fancy being electrocuted haha