smooth1

Yeah, keeping the stock amp is somewhat a pain. You can keep the stock speakers, but if you change out the head unit, I would change the amp out also and direct wire everything. You'll be much happier that way with the stereo and the sound you'll get.

Here;s a link to the thread I had for the ISF event: http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/index...=44282&st=0 And here is the link for the videos: (Listen on this video to the tires squeeling in the video as we are coming out of the turns?) Now here is that last corner again from outside the car: Heres a naught to See Ya!! and coming the other way:

Man was this a fun day. Lexus sponsored this ISF test drive event here in Florida at the Moroso Speedway. We drove the wheels off that car! I have a video shot from inside the car of on of the laps. They pretty much let us run the cars as fast as we could. They stopped the event at around 4:30 because we ran out of tires.

They probably have thier own forum for that. ;) Nice parking lot shot ! Ok, I have a few to exchange with you: This was from Or Moroso Speedway, ISF test drive event: This car belongs to Mario, ( BluLex ):

We have a 98 Nissan Sentra as our beater car also. $400.00 bucks though!! I like finding those. I keep an eye out for little deals like that and I mark them up and resale them on the side for extra cash. I have a friend at the auto auction in Sanford that flags a few cars for me and gives me a call. I'll go down there and buy four or five of them and put them at the garage for sale. If you can't afford school, then how do you expect to pay for the tires your gonna go thru? performance schools range in price from I would say around 250-500 bucks. Tires are gonna cost you that. :) Hey, can you do us a favor, if you decide to practice on your own somewhere, can you strap a video camera to a pole somehow and video tape your practice session and post it here? I'm sure it would be informative and could be a great tool. We lucked into the Altima. The kid needed a car so we went out to Leon's towing yard and talked to him. He's an old friend and a good ole boy. He said he was gonna ask $800 for it but did us a favor. It already had new wiper blades and new brake pads in the back seat so it was pretty cheap to get it road worthy. A couple of used tires and it was ready to go. The kid already drove it to Baton Rouge and back and it did just fine. :D That's a great car for a kid! Looks good, but not too fast, and a solid motor and drivetrain for alot of years of no attention use. Mileage doesn't even seem to matter to those motors. The 1.6 liter in the Sentra and the 1.8 liter they went to later are both 250k mile motors easily.

Kojack

So, what are you planning to do here? Are you cracking the case and doing full internal restore and rebuild? Or just looking to bolt on the missing parts, drop it in and run it? Why do you want an R154?

funny

JoeZ and high flow air filter is the best bang for the buck.

We have a 98 Nissan Sentra as our beater car also. $400.00 bucks though!! I like finding those. I keep an eye out for little deals like that and I mark them up and resale them on the side for extra cash. I have a friend at the auto auction in Sanford that flags a few cars for me and gives me a call. I'll go down there and buy four or five of them and put them at the garage for sale. If you can't afford school, then how do you expect to pay for the tires your gonna go thru? performance schools range in price from I would say around 250-500 bucks. Tires are gonna cost you that. :) Hey, can you do us a favor, if you decide to practice on your own somewhere, can you strap a video camera to a pole somehow and video tape your practice session and post it here? I'm sure it would be informative and could be a great tool.

Best of Show Well, I said that was a good day, not daily life. I wish I could have alot more of those days put together! I think I work to hard to be honest. There have been some long stretches in my life where things were really good though. I have been very lucky. :) I grew up in Wisconsin. I love my home, but yeah, I gotta tell ya, it's too dang cold up there! I'll visit, but I'm not moving back!

That,,,is some of the best advice I have ever seen given out here!!!!! Bravo Bartkat! dude i'm not going to SCHOOL if i don't have to. i hate school. and then on top of that i have to pay for the torture? no way jose. i mean seriously i dont think u need to go to cooking school to whip up some eggs. same way i dont think u need to go to driving school to skid and drift a little bit. It's not that kind of school dude. Besides you ain't just breaking eggs when you screw up trying to drift on public streets and roads. You should see the number of guys that have tried that on on ramps and spun out and totaled their cars. Go find an empty parking lot or corn field and practice there. Don't get too close to any light pole though. Speaking of corn fields, I just bought a 95 Altima that had been drifted into a corn field. It's a pretty decent car for $400 once we got the corn stalks and dirt out of the front end and undercarriage. I guess the guy that owned it didn't think it was worth paying to get it out of the impound lot once he got out of jail. Great find! The Altima is a solid car. Gets pretty good gas mileage too if you got the 4 cylinder. Post a pic of it? What are your plans for it?

Beagle

Yeah, you have a good point there.

Glad to hear it worked out great. :)

Have you ever looked at performance driving school? It's not like a math book and projector lesson. I had a great time! It's hands on training. They teach you entry points for cornering, apex strategies, and exiting techniques. Controlled braking, and different braking techniques, which will help you keep the car under control while manuovering, not to mention a ton of other cool tricks.

Wow, those white Tezza's in the snow storm look just like I imagined they would.

They would teach all that in the school. If you went to a good driving course and you left with that question still on your mind, you weren't paying attention and just wasted a few hundred bucks.

That,,,is some of the best advice I have ever seen given out here!!!!! Bravo Bartkat!

I love drinking Hurricanes and And I don't play billiards for money, so the sharks stay away from me, and all the hot babes here keep it steamy no matter what anyway. LOL! Actually, I hear ya Jibby. It's not for everyone. I've lived here now for 17 years. I love it here. The summer gets hot, but usually only late June, July and August. October cools down and stays there till May again. So all of us Floridians just live in the water and A/C for those few months, then come out again for the rest of the year. Of course I have come to just deal with the heat ok. I actually like it. I love to play golf in the morning when it's hot. then go home and shower and kick back on the sofa and doze in and out for afternoon, around 6 get up and fire up the grill and eat out on the back patio. That's a good Saturday for me. B) Space Ghost------> Dino Boy

Thanks and really good point on the spacers....even better point on the rotation capability. Any idea if 9.5's will fit on rear? BTW, since I live in PA I'll take the stock rims and fit 'em w/Blizzaks. I'll put them from Dec 1 - Feb 28...it'll be a nice change of pace and I can do it myself. Not with stock offsets. And even then I'm not sure there is enouph room in there for a 9.5 rim. If you rolled the fender then yeah, and that would look awsome too, but it's alot of work. So, if your only going to run them during the summer months, then I wouldn't waste a bunch of money on it. Just go with the rims you like. The size will be fine. You can allways go with a smaller aspect ratio to get that wider rear tire look if you want. If you swap your current stock rubber onto them then in effect that's what your gonna do anyway. Then like you said get winter tires for the stock rims to run in the winter.

I wouldn't start messing with spacers and all that. That's how problems start. I would either live with the new size, or keep looking for rims that you like that also have the right fitment. But those rims will fit and would look nice even if you did just go with the 8's all the way around. Atleast then you would be able to rotate your tires again.

The link you posted just sends me to an error page. And when I go to imageinmotion.com and click on sportmax, and pull up that wheel, it sends me to to 006 as the replacement, and it only shows a 4 lug "universal" pattern.

What wheels are you thinking about putting on?