Widebody 2nd gen Lexus GS

[PRO-STAR]

well done sir

[SebastienPeek]

This GS is 100% fire man!

That widebody kit all moulded in looks so damn good, add the color and the custom hood, damn nice daily driver!

[kittenpuncher]

This thing is sick! I love this generation GS, I am a euro guy but these cars have always made we want to scratch the JDM-itch.

[ELLeon]

Glad I found more pics of your GS man. I love the new color, blue its my fav color as well. How are you liking the ride now?

[honeybadger]

Thanks for the compliments guys. I went back and forth between blue, dark teal/aqua, and green a lot. I settled on blue since its my son's favorite color. Next plans are rebuild the wheels and hopefully get my big brakes on. After that probably sit on my hands and try not to buy a GTE motor. I'm not planning on bags but maybe a cup kit since my front bumper is low and long.

[EricT93]

Looks baller!

[DUTCHswift]

PLS BAG IT... this thing is screaming for it. The blue looks awesome.

[Porterhousestk]

looking good. Props for sticking with it, 8 years is a long time! but the new color and widebody look fantastic!

[19birel]

The C7 vents were a great idea! Great job, the car looks fantastic, I love the color choice.

[Benwalsh91]

this is real nice! luxury daily cruiser.

[parttimeprojectionist]

sick! looks like an awesome DD. love the c7 vents

[honeybadger]

And here is the current state. I test fitted the rear wheels with spacers to see what I need to rebuild them to. Looks like I'll be going conservative since the roads are bad. This is what 19x10.5 (+12) & 19x12.5 (+5) should fit like. I planning to run a little less stretch and camber once the wheels are rebuilt.

[honeybadger]

Of course I decided that I wanted the rear fenders and the bumper caps molded so I then spent a number of months working on that when I had time.

Wanted a carbon fiber vented hood but that was going to be like $1000 so instead I bought some rear fender vents from the C7 corvette and molded those into my OEM hood. Also built a new set of headlights, because who doesn't love doing things twice?

I did all of the prep work, bought the paint, and just dropped it off at a painter. The car is not flawless but its fine for a little daily driver. I ended up repainting it BMW Monte Carlo Blue from the F10 M5.

[honeybadger]

Oh yeah, somewhere during all of this I decided to buy a Serialnine widebody kit in 2013. Procrastinated until 2016. By then, someone had backed into the front of my car and damaged the driver side headlight, OEM fender, and my Wise bumper. I backed into something and damaged the OEM rear bumper. Two choices at that point, let the car stay crappy or actually install the kit. Never did anything like that, but it can't be too bad, right?
Front end off.

Front fenders on.

Cut and welded rear fenders.

Rear fenders on, Version Select rear bumper, and new sideskirts from the JDM OEM optional lip kit.

[honeybadger]

I got bored and added some other bits. I made my own front splitter (that was terrible) and rigged up a rear diffuser setup. I eventually replaced the front bumper with an aunthentic Wise Sports bumper. Not many of those made it to the states. I also retrofitted a new set of headlights with projectors and switched to Extreme Dimensions sideskirts. Don't even buy anything from those guys, the skirts fit terrible and I had to extend them and do a bunch of work to get them to fit. The only thing that bothered me was that the rear wheels would rub the fenders on large dips at high speed. I had already shaved the fenders and the camber was as much as I was willing to live with. It looked nice to me though, even with the old man gold paint. Part of me really wish I would have kept this look.