Rochester

iTrader: (9)

Spacing out the duckfeet made a world of difference with your drop. Good job.

The little half-height lug nuts that come with spacer adapters always suck. With 20 nuts to torque down, you will inevitably round one of them. Even more likely if you need to take them off and re-install.

Last year I bought a set of Gorilla 0023SD small diameter lug nuts from Amazon for $22 shipped. Couldn't be any more perfect.

blnewt

iTrader: (13)

Nice job getting your coilovers height set up. Looks to be a nice height for daily driving without worry, and yeah, I'd surely look into better tires.

future62

I might get a pair of rears and run 255/45s all around

I would like to get 19s eventually... but this looks a lot better than I thought it would

future62

Well it looks like I need new tires sooner than I thought.


Just ordered the 19s. Hopefully I will have them mounted by September.

r2dmax

You seem to be near me. I'm up near 485 and Back Creek Church Rd. Would love to get a ride in yours as I am seriously considering the Tiens as I am on a real budget as far as car mods and it's the car we drive most often together.

future62

Oh yea, you are not far at all. PM me

future62

Got the wheels on... 19x9.5 +25/+35 ESR SR07s




Dropped the front right corner a tad to balance it all out; driveway is sloped

blnewt

iTrader: (13)

Looks like that extra drop made a nice difference w/ the fit right there. What alignment specs are you running now?

Gus_Mahn

Future I'm going to send you a razor blade to scrape that sticky stuff off the right rear window LOL . The car looks really nice.

J99k

Clean ride man, hope all goes smooth in your build. Going to start a build thread soon as my HFC and exhaust are on the way.

future62

Well to be fair my driveway is sloped, which puts extra weight on the front. I think I need to raise the rear, but I don't know if I have any adjustment left. I might need longer springs out back. Been thinking about upping the rear rate anyway.

Alignment is a little up in the air. I think the shop that did it tried to align the car with 220lb of wheels and tires loaded I have a 6 month unlimited warranty on it so I think I'm gonna grab front and rear camber kits and get it dialed in. The fronts rub just a hair on hard bumps so I will go a little more negative up front; the rears had pretty gnarly camber wear so I will go a little more positive out back.

It does handle a lot better now. Steering is lighter but more responsive and it has the same planted feel as my old Z. Grip is pretty tenacious as well. I just need to get all my settings dialed in to balance grip/looks/tire life. In retrospect going with the 8.5/9.5 probably would have been the better move.... I will see what happens with this set of tires. If I can get 20K out of the rears I will probably jump on the staggered train next go round.

blnewt

iTrader: (13)

Yeah, getting that rear camber/toe kit at a minimum will really help that wear for sure, that toe has to be out of spec right now and that will make your tires angry

You could flat roll the front fender edge and keep your camber lower when if you end up getting the front camber arm kit. At any rate, keep it up

future62

Flat rolling the front fender could do the trick as well. I'm going to strap my FauxPro to the fender and see what is actually making contact under load, then make a decision from there. Worst case scenario though it looks like another $700 or so to get things right

It looks so mean though, and it drives nice too. Definitely worth it. Just gotta keep the tires alive.

Rochester

iTrader: (9)

If you're looking for a place for consistent, level measurements, I've found parking garages work really well.

future62

I just picked this kit up:

Optimum Porter Cable 7424 Kit Remove swirl marks and paint flaws

Paint is in abysmal, terrible shape. PO must really have loved drive through car washes. I need to tighten up my Civic before I sell it as well, so aside from my time and elbow grease it will pay for itself immediately. That's really going to take the looks of this thing over the top. Hoping to get it all done before C&C October here.