IWANTVVT

Hello, Lexus Forums! My name is Andrew and I am a 19 year car nut who just purchased his very first vehicle. Yes, you read that correctly. After about a year of minimum wage toil, I saved up roughly $7,000 and bought my first car. Choosing which vehicle to buy was very tough. I was expecting my budget to be closer to $4,000 than $7,000, but I worked extra hard and managed to scrape up the extra three grand. The story of how I decided on which car to buy is a tale for another day. For now let’s just get into what I actually purchased. I paid $5,600 for it. It is a 20 year old, two owner car with 82,000 miles on the odometer. It has a four speed automatic transmission and rear wheel drive, a four liter V8 producing 260 horsepower and 270 LB feet of torque. The interior is absolutely draped in leather. It weighs less than the current Mustang despite being a full sized luxury sedan. It is known internally as the “UCF20”. *DRUM ROLL PLEASE* As I’m sure many of you had already guessed before seeing the pictures, the car I bought was a beautifully maintained 1995 Lexus LS400 with hilariously low mileage. Here are the mods I'm planning / have done: indicates it has already been done LED/BIXENON head lights (maybe even LED taillights) Restore any of the horsepower the car has lost (it’s probably making much less than the 260 it made in 1995) replace some exterior/ interior trim with higher trim / facelifted LS parts Blacked out wheel center caps Removed 2/4 mufflers Blacked out the grille (maybe the badges and wheels as well, but unsure) Black out visible chrome replace some interior components with higher trim / newer LS ones Replace tires with Pirellis Swap rims for those from a 2002 Audi A8 MAYBE swap in a facelifted VVT engine, but i may also just buy a UCF21 or SC400 in the future instead Install an electric exhaust dump that would make the car quiet when closed, but would bypass the mufflers, cats and resonators when open If any of you could tell me how I could go about applying aforementioned modifications, please please PLEASE leave a comment letting me know how. Otherwise, please leave a comment letting me know what you think of my car and the overall purchase. Here are some more pictures for you all to enjoy Blacked out grille Front 3/4 Blacked out center caps Perfect interior Perfect interior Rear 3/4