Looking good, Andrew! Did you ever finish buffing out that door repair you did?

That was my favorite pic too, coincidentally enough! Was actually wondering if they got her to pose for that shot!

 

No, just a photo of opportunity and a 52x lens. You should see my beach collection.

JK JK, LOL

God's honest truth... I didn't realize I had that shot until the next day. Kind of took me by surprise.

 

Hahaha. I don't buy it! I see what looks to be another shadow in front of hers, so my guess is that you intentionally cropped her boyfriend out of the shot when you zoomed in... Good call!

 

You could have at least asked her to remove the phone from her pocket though. LOL

 

Lol. I sort of finished buffing out the door. Im going to redo a small patch, sanding, reclearing, and buffing again. Not happy with one tiny spot.

And she doesnt have a boyfriend at the moment Thats Emily and she was there with her brother. They both drive g35's. Haha.

 

Does it bother anyone else that the steering wheels track control is different from the dash track controls? I guess I should stick to just using one, but it annoys me that on the wheel, up advances the track and on the dash, down advances the track.

Is there an easy way to get the screen to show the song playing in the playlist screen when using an ipod touch? Sometimes I want to see what the upcoming track is, but it seems the only way to do that is to go back to the playlist and scroll down to the song manually. This is tough to do since some of my playlists have over 50 songs.

 

Any of you guys been running 5mm spacers on the rear with stock studs for a while without any issues?

 

I run 15mm adapters in the winter with OEM 18's... about 4 months at a stretch, and done it twice now. Never had a problem.

Oh hey... for anyone in the chat thread who wasn't part of the meet-up last weekend:

 

Kenny's coupe was VERY easy to spot.

Thanks for citing the music. Ima have to track that down.

 

Just ordered a differential rebuild kit from TheNismoShop.

Long plans...

 

Sorry, forgot to add that I was talking about running 5mm on stock studs in the rear.

 

That's right in that gray area, if you can get a full 6 turns on your lug nuts torqued to 80 ft. lbs you're good, any less than that you should get extended studs. It's going to be close.

 

Good to know! I'll check it out and see. Thank you for the info. I'll probably go ahead and order studs just to be safe

 

I have to agree with Brad on this. The OEM rear wheel studs are about 4-5 mm shorter than the front studs (see below pic for reference), so you have less leeway on the rear than the front. I had to install longer wheel studs to run 10 spacers in the rear of my car. Although it also depends on the thickness of the hub on your particular wheels.. My Volks have a pretty thick mounting hub so that actually takes up some more of the useable stud length.


The rule of thumb we used to use in the tire/wheel shop I used to Manage is you really want the lug-nut to catch at least 3/8" of threads on the stud. So for 1.5mm thread pitch studs 6 turns is about right (6x1.5=9mm/25.4=.354"), however for our 1.25 thread pitch studs you should shoot for 8 full turns or more (8x1.25=10mm/25.4=.393"). Of course if you really want to get deep into the subject you would need to look at the actually amount of thread-to-thread contact surface area where a 1.25 pitch thread would have more actual thread contact area per mm or per inch than a 1.5 pitch thread.


OEM Front stud on the left and OEM rear stud on the right... Note the difference in length. Incidentally, you can also see the darker area on the threads of the OEM studs where the OEM lug-nuts were contacting the OEM studs. If you count these it seems to be about 8 full threads were in contact for the front studs and 8 - 9 threads for the rear studs.

 

I've read that you want half the nut thickness of bolt protruding past the top of the nut. I wouldn't feel safe with the bolt not protruding at all.