My LS is back from the shop. Lots of pics

Alax7

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got my baby back today after 2 weeks!!!! :dancefool:monkey::zgreenbou:wrench:facesjump Finally

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I missed her so much. It felt so weird finally driving her again but it was great. The new rear bumper looks great, they matched the paint perfectly. They put in new rear sensors that are black, looks pretty sweet up close and they work a lot better than my old ones. My old ones gave me false alarms sometimes, but these work great. I got home today from the shop and found my LSE bumper waiting at my door so I picked it up and took it back to the shop to get painted.The chrome lower strip was in perfect condition, no breaks at all. Sucks that andrizzle had to go through a few of those but mine came in good on the first try The owner of the body shop is a friend of my mom so he is painting the bumper for free for giving him the insurance job. He is also painting the gen1 LSE spoiler and the eyebrows. I tried on the eyebrows before going back to the shop. I also painted my lower grille black a few weeks ago but never posted pics. I got the black cdc grille, black eyebrows, black bottom grille and carbon fiber license plate frame. It looked pretty cool. I might keep the look and also try color matched. I'll order an extra set of eyebrows to keep as black since I sent the ones I have to get painted. I'll color match the mclaren grille so I can keep the cdc black, I kinda like the cdc black, it's grown on me.I wanted to try out the black lse wing and black rear plate surround with black rear bumper insert (black tape just to see), but oh well. What do you guys think about the white/black scheme going on? Yay-Nay?

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I can finally start installing my inventory of parts. I have the lse bumper to go on, lse spoiler, angel eyes, drilled/slotted rotors,new brake pads and ss lines for the front, new exhaust with black powder coated 4'' tips, Extra set of calipers to be poweder coated black with red logos are on their way, New cats and dyno tune. Eibachs and I have to order oem shocks to put with eibachs, plus new plugs for the dyno tune. :D...............Oh and a soon, my sexy rims ;)


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Since I have my lse bumper now, I dont really have use for the square fog lights so I guess I'll sell them if anyone is interested. Bought them new from lsk a few weeks ago and put in ccfl rings in them. They are sealed with all purpose silicone adhesive. It's soft, heat resistance, stays flexible and is crack resistance and water resistant.Really easy to take apart if you want to get in them again for whatever reason. The angels work. Just took picks of them tonight. The fogs were 180 shipped new for both and 30 for the rings. I'll let them go for 100+ shipping.


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I also cut one of my headlights open tonight. I thought it was going to be harder than it turned out to be, well first it was. I cut around the black lip and left the screws alone to be able to use them to hold the light together once I seal everything back up. I think Andrizzle cut on the clear part, not sure, but it seemed it would be a little hard to seal back up from there. Here, they will have a the flaps come down on each other to seal back up. I think it'll be easier this way to seal up plus with the help of the screws.It was harder to take apart but hopefully worth it by making the seal up easier. I'll get more pics of the progress of where I cut and the angel eyes installationa


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I like the black lower grille and black front plate frame, but I would stop there. I think that cdc grille would look alot better with the shell painted white. Your car is going to look and feel completely different soon with all those new parts.
 
Beautiful car, damn! I'm not mad at thebits of blak here and there, but at the same time your color is so nice it's not to want you to keep the grill and everything matched. Do you have HID's in those fogs as well?
 
I like the black lower grille and black front plate frame, but I would stop there. I think that cdc grille would look alot better with the shell painted white. Your car is going to look and feel completely different soon with all those new parts.

I've seen one painted silver, might have been ls4me who had it, but I thought it looked more like an ebay grille than a cdc.

car looks good man what they charge you to get the bumper painted ?

I'm getting the stuff painted for free. I just forgot to take the maclaren grille to him too. Before the job I asked him how much he would charge to just the front bumper and he said 400. I asked another paint shop close by and he quoted me at 250.

damn alax, staying on the low with all those mods lol your LS should thank you, alot of birthday gifts haha

I've been posting all the things i've gotten here and there. I was actually going to hold off on making this thread andd just emerge with a different ls in a few weeks. I was too excited about getting her back I had to share :D. I've been on the hunt for parts for a few months now, I bought my exhaust first and would save up in my mod fund to install them but then a good deal on something would come up and I woud buy another part instead of installing what I had, like the eibachs I picked up randomly.lol.

Where did you locate that spoiler?

LSk. I found some one side of the lse tails and was going to buy the other side from lsk but it would be about the same as getting them both new from lsk so I held off on them and went with the spoiler.

Beautiful car, damn! I'm not mad at thebits of blak here and there, but at the same time your color is so nice it's not to want you to keep the grill and everything matched. Do you have HID's in those fogs as well?

Yeah, hids in the fogs and OEM HID headlights.
 
Hey Alex,, Looking real good, I like what you have in progress and looking forward to seeing you again and now your car at the Fabulous Fords Show. I vote that you keep everything white, it will give it a sleath look.
 
Can't wait to see this. It's gonna look great!
 
Hey Alex,, Looking real good, I like what you have in progress and looking forward to seeing you again and now your car at the Fabulous Fords Show. I vote that you keep everything white, it will give it a sleath look.

DITTO!!!! Love the CDC grille!! I've been looking for some correct mesh to install on my '06. Can't wait for Fabulous Fords to see your car!!
 
Damn you Alax. Plethora of mods you have coming up!

I think you cut your lights in the same spot I did. It is hard to tell from that angle. But I cut mine on that seam - where the smooth lense plastic meets the rough black plastic - and it looks like that what you did as well.

Lucky you on the lower chrome insert... Did you order from TeamFord or LSK?


I like the black/white theme, but I am not sure it will flow too well in the front after the new bumper etc. It sounds like you found a McClaren grille? And it is being painted. But I am not quite clear on what exactly you have in terms of grille combinations.

I think those backup sensors look pretty sweet like that, they will look even better once you get those black exhaust tips on there. Also you need to replace your rear signals with chrome-amber. It will clean up the polluted tails. Also with the black/white theme going in the rear - have you thought of tinting your tails like I did mine? Might look pretty sick.

And I may not have caught it, but are you not color matching the rear surround?


Also, wow you got the spoiler from LSK... That is hella expensive... Alax where did you find all this money, quit holdin out on me bro!
 
One more thing....... Paint the lower skirts body color. That will make the color really stand out. That white is a very nice color!
 
Must be a good month for everyone. All of these LSs getting tricked out.

I am diggin' the black and white composition you have going there. Looking forward to seeing the pics with LSE bumper cover on the car.
 
DITTO!!!! Love the CDC grille!! I've been looking for some correct mesh to install on my '06. Can't wait for Fabulous Fords to see your car!!

I found some, but you never replied back if you wanted to get a group buy or not. It's the same company pektel got the mclaren mesh look-a-like from. They have a weaved mesh that looks identical to the cdc mesh.


Damn you Alax. Plethora of mods you have coming up!

I think you cut your lights in the same spot I did. It is hard to tell from that angle. But I cut mine on that seam - where the smooth lense plastic meets the rough black plastic - and it looks like that what you did as well.

Lucky you on the lower chrome insert... Did you order from TeamFord or LSK?


I like the black/white theme, but I am not sure it will flow too well in the front after the new bumper etc. It sounds like you found a McClaren grille? And it is being painted. But I am not quite clear on what exactly you have in terms of grille combinations.

I think those backup sensors look pretty sweet like that, they will look even better once you get those black exhaust tips on there. Also you need to replace your rear signals with chrome-amber. It will clean up the polluted tails. Also with the black/white theme going in the rear - have you thought of tinting your tails like I did mine? Might look pretty sick.

And I may not have caught it, but are you not color matching the rear surround?


Also, wow you got the spoiler from LSK... That is hella expensive... Alax where did you find all this money, quit holdin out on me bro!


Yeah the wing seemed kinda expensive for the little piece of plastic it is but I've wanted one so bad. I got the mclaren grille from rsimmons. I bought the cdc from ken and that same night at 1am, rsimmons said he would sell his mclaren if anyone was interested, he needed new brake pads. I couldn't pass it up. I had to get it. :D... Working on the weekends, saving up man, plus christmas money and birthday money from relative doesn't hurt either. I've purchased all this stuff over a few months.

I got the bumper from lsk but the fedex label said teamford. :confused:
 
black grille and eye brows looks awesome...i think ima do that now

copyright infringement :shifty:....lol. Thanks, I'll have both set ups at hand to go from one to the other if I get bored of the look, or maybe the lse bumper will push me towards the color matched
 
a pic of the angel eyes in progress. One is done, going to seal it up now.Have to cut into the other later today. I'll prob start another thread with all the pictures and stuff. I didn't like how the bigger ring was smaller then the headlight ring so I cut the piece of plastic holding the ring together.. The guy from lighwurkz posted on here a while ago saying you could prob spread them a few mm if you cut them. Well I have one better for ya. I got 1 1/4 inches of extra length on it. Could've gotten maybe another 1/4 inch without it breaking but this got the size almost perfectly. More details when I'm done. Check out the difference. I think the shape came out great.

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a pic of the angel eyes in progress. One is done, going to seal it up now.Have to cut into the other later today. I'll prob start another thread with all the pictures and stuff. I didn't like how the bigger ring was smaller then the headlight ring so I cut the piece of plastic holding the ring together.. The guy from lighwurkz posted on here a while ago saying you could prob spread them a few mm if you cut them. Well I have one better for ya. I got 1 1/4 inches of extra length on it. Could've gotten maybe another 1/4 inch without it breaking but this got the size almost perfectly. More details when I'm done. Check out the difference. I think the shape came out great.

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so are those headlights housings from a bmw?
 
Huh? Where did you get that from? They are my HID headlights.

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looking great. and those ccfl's fill out the hole size much better. WRT black/white theme, it's not so much that i don't like it but the fact that i think your car would look so sick with just the white w/ everything color matched. great progress though buddy. keep us posted
 
Yea we cut @ the same spot Alax. And that is a nice job getting that larger ring to spread out! I was worried when pulling on it I would break the little LED board inside the ring @ that middle bottom part. Do they still light up fully? Also have you figured out how you're going to attach it to the bezels? Did you heat the ring to spread it, or just force it.

You said sexy wheels.... You are getting new wheels??? Even though you just got those sport gen1s?

Ken has the parts shipped directly from Ford... But mine came from "five star ford" which we all know is Max in Arizona.

Team Ford is in California, so ken probably used that dealer since it is closer to you, and the parts has less distance to travel to you as opposed to traveling to me. Sucks for me... lol

And one more thing... HURRY UP WITH THOSE LIGHTS! lol
 

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