Random thoughts thread

[Nevermore]

Originally Posted by bkblitzed

rpf1's the 35offset

Checked out your journal, looks pretty good. Do they poke, ever so slightly? Or is that just how it looks in the pictures?

[bkblitzed]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Checked out your journal, looks pretty good. Do they poke, ever so slightly? Or is that just how it looks in the pictures?

in the pics yea they did a little bit but that's because i didnt do an alignment with camber bolts up front. Now the fronts are -1.5 and the rears are like -2.4, and there's not really any poke

[Shagaliscious]

LOL! So a stanced BMW was parked next to me at Wawa, and when I was leaving an older guy was getting his wifes attention and pointing at it with this look like "WTF? How is that guy driving that broken car?"

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Giccin

I'm gonna let that pass. Lol

You a doctor yet?

[serialk11r]

I just drove a CVT Nissan Sentra Zipcar...
The CVT is a little spooky at first, but I think it's kind of neat how the "downshift" corresponds to how much you press the accelerator. I think it's preferable to a normal slushbox where you press the gas and the car hesitates before suddenly increasing the revs a huge amount.

It also made me really grateful for my 140 horses. <120 horses kind of sucks (130hp MR20DE engine - CVT loss), floor the gas and the engine revs its balls off spinning 5000rpm, and the car barely moves.

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

The same way they forget how to drive in the rain even though it rains far more often. It's crazy here if it rains in the morning. My commute to work is always a mess, no matter how little rain there is because everyone somehow manages to wreck when it rains.

What is this fluid on my car!? Better swerve in every direction so I can avoid it!

[Nevermore]

Ugh, think my research just got considerably more difficult.

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Ugh, think my research just got considerably more difficult.

Research? In what?

[Nevermore]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Research? In what?

Which car parts I want to buy haha

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Which car parts I want to buy haha

LOL best kind of research.

[sklimo]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Which car parts I want to buy haha

Now what are looking at?

[Nevermore]

Originally Posted by sklimo

Now what are looking at?

Well I thought I knew which wheels and lowering springs I wanted but Enkei finally made a wheel I like, the TSP6. I want the 17x9 +45 one but I was told in the 'will it fit' thread that it would rub the suspension unless I get coils. So now I need a coil that doesn't break the bank and has a modest drop so I don't scrape, preferably 20mm or less. I also need a way to find out if he's even right before I set myself up to spend that extra money.

[sklimo]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Well I thought I knew which wheels and lowering springs I wanted but Enkei finally made a wheel I like, the TSP6. I want the 17x9 +45 one but I was told in the 'will it fit' thread that it would rub the suspension unless I get coils. So now I need a coil that doesn't break the bank and has a modest drop so I don't scrape, preferably 20mm or less. I also need a way to find out if he's even right before I set myself up to spend that extra money.

Damn, wish I could help. I am far from wheel expert. I do know that on my H&R springs that when I put my Rays 57dr's on in spring will have to get camber plates. My wheels are 18x9.5 +38

[Nevermore]

Originally Posted by sklimo

Damn, wish I could help. I am far from wheel expert. I do know that on my H&R springs that when I put my Rays 57dr's on in spring will have to get camber plates. My wheels are 18x9.5 +38

You're fine man. My question is so specific I basically need someone that's done the exact thing I want to to tell me it works. I'd rather not put any camber on it too. I suppose if worse cones to worse I could always settle for the 17x8 +45 version.