Kevin's 93' Ls400 AYEEEE

[willis]

I come in here to see wheel pictures or stretch pictures. What do I see? A BUNCH OF WIRING.


Unacceptable.

[aLaFleur]

Well if they're "mehh" wheels we dont care anymore...



So you can show us now

[KEVIN.E]

You're just going to keep showing us bad angles of the wheels and tease us aren't you... We are not friends.

dude I think everyone is anticipating the wheels too much and when they are revealed people are going to be like mehh, why'd he choose those haha. w/e im still excited about them haha.

[aLaFleur]

You're just going to keep showing us bad angles of the wheels and tease us aren't you... We are not friends.

[KEVIN.E]

Glad to know the shocks are fine! The fill it would be great, because it will be consistent the luxury look

Yeah! even though right now with just the flares taped on like that, the car did look pretty mean haha, not going for the full vip look anyways.

[244Brick]

Glad to know the shocks are fine! The fill it would be great, because it will be consistent the luxury look

[KEVIN.E]

looks promising, the flares dont look too bad, maybe you can paint the quater panel when you get them installed. Does look like you coilover is blown though.

My plan is to bolt them to the panels and get them situated, and then I'm going to body fill and mold the flares to the panels and also hide the dimples where the rivets/screws would go. The flares will just look like widened panels, instead of me going at the car with a roller trying to get a nice even pull on all 4 corners and also having to radius the arches, the flares were my solution.

[KEVIN.E]

All that soldering and you didn't use shrink tubing? Disappointed.

aw man, ran out of shrink tubing and said fck it just gonna wrap it up with electrical tape haha

[KEVIN.E]

He may have used pb blaster on the coilover cause the collars could have been seized?

Looking awesome dude! I'm loving the look of the flares, I can't wait to see it with wheels on it and on the ground!

Yeah, I just sprayed some PB on there and brushed the threads since they had rocks embedded in them and the lockring was really tight too. They are not blown.

[brsteinbach]

He may have used pb blaster on the coilover cause the collars could have been seized?

Looking awesome dude! I'm loving the look of the flares, I can't wait to see it with wheels on it and on the ground!

[244Brick]

Yeha i was noticing the oil too.. I think the flares looks good. just color match

[FlatRocker]

All that soldering and you didn't use shrink tubing? Disappointed.

[gman1227]

looks promising, the flares dont look too bad, maybe you can paint the quater panel when you get them installed. Does look like you coilover is blown though.

[KEVIN.E]

So close to getting wheels on, now all I need is tires so I can start the bodywork. I'm pretty sure I am the first to run flares on a ls400, or one of the few. hopefully I will have tires mounted this weekend.


IMG_3901 by KEV.E, on Flickr


IMG_3903 by KEV.E, on Flickr

and then I cranked down the coils a little, since I'm moving to 18s from 19s, just about 3/8 of an inch for now.


IMG_3915 by KEV.E, on Flickr

[KEVIN.E]

So one of the wires was corroded and crumbling all the way into the back of the plug, so I had to take out the pin and solder right to the back and then put it back together and run a fresh wire back into the wheel well.


IMG_3793 by KEV.E, on Flickr


IMG_3794 by KEV.E, on Flickr

fcking tedious soldering all these wires. was about 12-15 in total that needed repair


IMG_3797 by KEV.E, on Flickr

Drilled a hole in the pinchweld, tucked the harness up and then ziptied it in place. Gives me more clearance and should prevent future shredding


IMG_3806 by KEV.E, on Flickr

Success, no more ABS and TRAC control lights. So now my ABS and TRAC control work again. Maybe some other stuff got fixed too idk


IMG_3801 by KEV.E, on Flickr