Raven FRS: Heartbreaker

[TylerLieberman]

Another picture of the black/mag blue combo

[JordanWho]

[TylerLieberman]

Originally Posted by JordanWho

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180s look good on every color set of TEs though haha.


I always loved the Cs Garage purple 180. That thing was perfection.

I dunno. I've always wanted TEs. Just gotta decide on a color. I was gonna do Meister S1Rs but everybody has them and I won't run aggressive enough sizes to get any decent lip.

Truth be told, I might just do the blue until I end up wanting a change, and then I can go from there.

Still not sure yet though. Convince me otherwise

[Crazy Drew]

High meta bronze /thread. The blue is cool, but not on a black car. and since it's not standard matte bronze I can't hate.

You honestly seem pretty set on the mag blue though. Which is way more than cool. F**k it, it's your car, your style, do what YOU want to do.

[Crazy Drew]

Originally Posted by JordanWho

YES

Those fake? I see evasive's watermark on it but missing a bunch of stuff on that wheel....

[DAEMANO]

Originally Posted by TylerLieberman

180s look good on every color set of TEs though haha.


I always loved the Cs Garage purple 180. That thing was perfection.

I dunno. I've always wanted TEs. Just gotta decide on a color. I was gonna do Meister S1Rs but everybody has them and I won't run aggressive enough sizes to get any decent lip.

Truth be told, I might just do the blue until I end up wanting a change, and then I can go from there.

Still not sure yet though. Convince me otherwise

So you chose TEs?

True you should get whatever you want, but if you're looking for exclusivity or uniqueness TE37's and their knockoffs are EVERYWHERE.

[Crazy Drew]

Originally Posted by DAEMANO

exclusivity or uniqueness

Those words can only be applied to top shelf wheels or something that nobody wants (emitz, super fin, whatever vintage 10+ year old multi-piece wheels) otherwise they've been beaten to death already on this chassis. Just put on whatever makes YOU happy.

[JordanWho]

I still think...

[TylerLieberman]

Originally Posted by DAEMANO

So you chose TEs?

True you should get whatever you want, but if you're looking for exclusivity or uniqueness TE37's and their knockoffs are EVERYWHERE.

You're absolutely right. I have yet to see an FRS/BRZ with either finish. Most are graphite or black edition. Te other thing is that I've always wanted TEs but never owned them. I've had:

Works VSKF
5Zigen FN01r
Gram Lights 57Pro
Work Equip
SSR SP1
GP Sports Gullflame Gravity
Nismo LMGT4
JIC Magic JForce 07
Enkei RPF1

As well as a few others. TEs are one of those wheels I've never gotten to own. It's time to make it happen .

As far as the Meisters go, I like S1Rs but I like then with big lip. I'm not going to run a low enough offset for a big lip. Lowest I'd go is 18x9.5 +15. Downside to that is the size is so aggressive that I'd have to run mad rear camber to fit anything more than a 225. I don't want a lot of rear camber though. TEs are more conservative in sizing and gives me numerous different tire size options to choose from without having to play with the alignment a bunch to fit.

If TE37 SLs came in white, I would have already chosen lol

[Drift&Drag]

Originally Posted by JordanWho

I still think...

Ohhh... I like .. I like!

[cncnjn]

Originally Posted by TylerLieberman

Im stationed at Sill. Deployed right now though. Won't be back until the end of the year.

Thank you for your service sir! My father is currently stationed in Kandahar for a year is well. Be safe out there!

[TylerLieberman]

Originally Posted by cncnjn

Thank you for your service sir! My father is currently stationed in Kandahar for a year is well. Be safe out there!

Thank you best wishes to you, your Dad and family while he's over there.

Wheels are set in motion and aero has been ordered and will probably show up sometime next week or so. Todoroki fenders were also ordered though the group buy via Touge Factory. @Touge Factory-any idea when the fenders will be shipping out from Japan?

All the risers and other misc. parts are just sitting right now as well waiting to be installed.

I'm getting a bit excited. The car isn't getting a bunch of crazy changes but it's going to look a lot different by the time I get back.

[eseboner]

Originally Posted by TylerLieberman

Installed the Stance LCA's and got an alignment today.

I installed the control arms and dropped the car and was sitting at this height:


A bit too much for me seeing how the axle angle was extremely jacked up and there was still not much suspension travel. So, I raised the rears up by about half an inch and got to about the same ride height as before.



After that, I went and drove it around and could tell that it was definitely off alignment so I went and got it taken care of. Unfortunately, the stock toe links are maxed out so the best I could do is -1.8 camber in the rear while still maintaining zero toe.

So I'm going to get some SPL Titanium Rear Toe Links to help get the extra adjustment I need and I'll end up going back down to -1.5 camber with 0 toe again.

So now the car is all good for me to drive around on until I leave. I can't wait to start getting everything ordered for the car. It's going to be amazing when I come back.

In the meantime, I have a few parts that I'm going to be installing on my wife's car next weekend ('13 Focus ST). I'll post some pics of that I suppose

Just ordered these, what could you tell me about the camber adjustments?

[TylerLieberman]

Originally Posted by eseboner

Just ordered these, what could you tell me about the camber adjustments?

I'm running -1.7 in the rear right now. Only reason why is because my toe links are maxed. If I were to get new toe links, I'm sure I could get down to about -1 with my current height.

More camber is easy. I'm sure you could run a good -3 to -4 degrees plus on the rear with these without needing adjustable toe links. Maybe bushings, but that's it. That could change though depending on your height, seeing how the car will naturally pick up more negative camber (which gives more toe in on the rear for this car) as you lower it.

Hope that answers your questions. If not, just let me know