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Originally Posted by Shinchu
so just to be sure, if i set up my FR-S like this...
am i going to get reported/banned/"hated"/etc?
my old S14 while i was stationed in japan.
still had another inch of threads on the coilovers to go lower, but it sat just right on 225 stretched on a 9.5 up front and 235 stretched on a 10.5 out back. i never checked the exact camber but the rear was around 3.5 deg. and front was maybe 4 deg.
it drifted just fine on numerous outings to local tracks of japan. never once did i go street drifting (much to the flipping out of ziptied members who insisted i was lame for not breaking laws in a country i was a guest in, and did not want to violate SOFA status as active duty service member).
seriously, this is how i am going to set up my FR-S, like it or not. although probably not staggered wheels. but the overall "stance" of the car - the true meaning of the word as in "that car has a nice stance/it sits very nice" will be about the same with a bit of poke and camber, some stretch but nothing over the top.
i like certain elements of a nice fitting set of wheels and a dialed suspension with a PURPOSE. you can look good and drive like a bat out of hell on tracks and have a DAMN good time doing it. thats how i roll and if you dont like it thats fine with me.
oh and somebody said something about coilovers and not corner balancing... that corolla in my sig is sitting on powered by max coilovers... and yes its been corner balanced. |
I think a primary difference is what I have highlighted above. You do it with a purpose. Half of these guys/girls (hyperbole) that are doing stance/hellaflush are doing it for the look and the extreme camber, without any desire to do any competition other than those "Scrape" contests. A couple pages back someone posted an article showing how careless these owners are with their cars as well, and the damage they are doing to them all in the pursuit of looking cool.
Also, that is a beautiful s14. A little camber looks good. A lot of camber is pointless.