Congrats man. That's one sweet FX. 
Jbaker1121's FX50 updates and photo thread
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falcondrgn
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- 2006 FX35
Sweeeeet FX Man, Love the kit and 21s
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- 09 FX50
Congrats man. That's one sweet FX.
Sweeeeet FX Man, Love the kit and 21s
THanks guys!
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- 09 FX50
thanks guys!
Just drove the new FX to school for 3 hours today and let me tell you...its a different animal on the wide open highway compared to my Fx35...
Just drove the new FX to school for 3 hours today and let me tell you...its a different animal on the wide open highway compared to my Fx35...
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Haha I bet everyone at school is jealous now :P
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- 09 FX50
need to get some decent pictures going for the new Avatar and profile pic haha
There's some who are jealous and some who hate, a lot of people will respect it for what it is, much like my last car.....
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- 09 FX50
yeah I have that problem too haha. It reminds me of the mercedes' that we've had, theyre smooth so you dont realize, and the v8 doesnt help either haha.......also since have no exhaust and its pretty silent, thats another way not to realize.
I've only gotten up to about 100 in it, and that wasn't even on purpose haha.
My radar system isnt installed in this FX yet, its sitting in my garage, so I need to be more careful!
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- 09 FX50
thanks man
haha OEM+ for now :wink (2): I dont think Im going to go too crazy to be truthful. I graduate next year and depending on what Im doing I may move out of my parent's house, so I need to save more money for that sort of thing rather than use a large part of my summer earnings on the car haha....
But I already know I am doing the resonator delete aka getting a custom pipe built with no resonator (a pipe with two flanges haha) so i can swap it out instead of cutting up the OEM midpipe w/resonator.
I also know I am going to tint the rear tails, reflectors, and hatch brake...
I'm not going to get springs; I am going to wait for coil overs
then after stuff is tinted I will probably rock the GTR wheels (so, this summer)
Probably do some K&N drop-ins
I need to see if my subbox from the 35 will fit nicely in the 50 otherwise I may just sell the subs and box and go with one 12" sub, or re-build the box and re-use my subs....
I wanted to find out pricing on headlight painted/LED work from 180 but he never calls back and I get sick of it so I may just have john paint the inners like the last car, or see if I can get a set of UAE spec headlights.
I'm not doing HID lights because the others gave me so many issues, and I think I want to go for yellow foglights this time since I know they actually work better in bad weather,
LEDs on the interior, plate lights, dtrl, of course.
Put my radar system back in the 50
then Idk, I'll see what comes out for it. I have a 6 year warranty so maybe when it gets close to 2 or 3 years aka 50-60k miles (I'll >hopefully< have an actual job by then) I can think of FI on the vk50......but until then, it's just a thought.
I was also thinking of doing what my boy with the g37 did and buy a cheap 240sx to get my modding fix and leave the fx50 with mild modification....we shall see.
for the next 7 weeks, it's basically going to stay OEM unless I decide to go to my boy's shop to have him fab up a resonator-less midpipe................
I'll post up more pictures from saturday and the 50's arrival at home and maybe later today I'll take more pictures
also, does anybody know if the 03-08 18" wheels will fit the FX50 and clear the BBK?
otherwise my 18" winter wheels will be up for sale
and the 21's may become my winter set, or I'll buy some 19"s for the winter..... for the 2nd gen bodies bigger wheels look best.....no 18's haha
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- 2006 FX35 AWD
from what I had heard, 15mm spacer is required for the first gen 18's to fit over fx50 bbks. I yet have to test my setup this spring/summer (if I ever get to it).
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- 09 FX50
hmmmm I dont want to intstall extended studs again for spacers...maybe ill buy the other version of spacers thats ON the actual spacer.... or find an excuse to get 19s
so anyway, here's the pics.
at the DEALER the day I picked it up:
Best pic from when it first came home:
took these this morning at school (dirty from the 3hr drive)
I'm going to give it a wash later today I think so there may be more pics upp..
at night under certain light the color shifts...sometimes it more purple, sometimes gunmetal, so weird....same in the day. reminds me of the color of my grandfather's Cl550 which is also a purple-gunmetalish color.
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They're pretty good, could have more of a "bite" but I think its still on original pads (only 6500miles) so maybe when i get new pads itll be better....
Thanks man, haha. I got a good deal and love FXs anyway, so it ended up working out!
if you want to go mod crazy, do fx35, if you dont, go fx50...... just like the fx45, the fx5 probably wont have much besides distant euro stuff......
gas mileage is similar to my fx35
