Impromptu repair of positive battery cable as the darn thing disintegrated. Replaced with zinc marine unit and felt washers.

Man, I had forgotten that you basically need to remove the entire cowl to get to the battery hold-downs.

 

Installed hydrdipped pieces along with redlinegoods boot

 

Sorry, when viewing in mobile mode signatures are hidden.

 

Those are 19" coupe wheels right?

Can you do us a huge favor and throw them on a scale to get a idea how much they weigh?

I had factory 18x8.5 duckfeet (g37 rwd sport sedan) wheels off the car and they weighed 25lbs alone.

Curious to know what 19" coupes weigh

 

I didn't know that.

I never liked mobile mode, but hey, now I know.


Staggered... 26.5 and 27.5 lbs

https://www.myg37.com/forums/wheels-...ml#post2554989

 

this is what mobile mode looks like.

Thank you for the wheel reference thread, Rochester.

 

My huge Rays weigh less which is pretty sweet. Speaking of which, I ordered tires today for them. 275/40/20 and 315/35/20. :O. Cheap tires but well reviewed. Typically used by charger/challengers.

 

Just curious, but why did you choose such large diameter tires? The OEM "Sport Package" Bridgestone tires are 26.7" for the rear and 27" for the front, but the sizes you chose are around 28.7". That's around 2" larger in diameter over the OEM tires!

 

Yeah, the ECU is gonna throw the skid warning light.

 

I didn't know a 315 could fit under the sedan rear fenders...are you going widebody?

 

Rear fender will be cut with flares.

Well, there are a few reasons. A) I'm going to be running 3" Titanium Exhaust and I don't want to ruin it. B) I originally wanted 265/35/20 and 315/30/20 but that combo was hard to find in the brand tires I wanted. C) The pot holes around here are unreal. D) this is my drive way with only 1~" less clearance with NO lip.




IDK. I guess we'll have to see how they look. Maybe I'll regret it.

 

Well update to this: I have no idea what happened but it got a lot quieter now. Maybe it has to break in or something? I have no idea, but it's great now. Really weird.. The only other difference now is its over 70 degrees outside while the last couple days were in the 40s-50s. Maybe temperature has something to do with it.

Another observation: With the stock cats if I was parked with the car on the entire car would shake / vibrate a little. I thought the motor mounts were bad but with the new cats this dosen't happen anymore.

 

Just fair warning... Just as Slartibart mentioned, your stability/traction control (and possibly ABS too) are probably going to go nuts with tire diameters that far off from the OEM size. I was previously running 305/35R20's, which are about 28.4" diameter, and I couldn't keep my traction control from constantly intervening. It was so bad that I added a switch to the center control so I could completely disable it. I eventually switched to 305/30R20's, which at 27.2" are still slightly larger diameter than OEM, but I haven't had any issues since. It can be a little tricky when changing tire sizes on vehicles with modern electronics... But, who knows, maybe you'll get lucky and won't have any issues.

I can also almost guarantee that the front tires are going to rub like crazy. I'm not so much worried about the 275mm width (I'm running 265's without any rubbing), but that combined with a tire that is almost 2" larger in diameter your going to have very little clearance in your front fender wells when turned at full lock.

 

I think he's wider up front so not stock body up there. Curious to see the outcome

 

The front CF fenders are wider but it's probably half an inch at most, and really only due to the fact it doesn't have the lip along the fender.

You've convinced me. I honestly didn't think it would be such a big deal but now that I see them in person they do look a little nuts. Would be another thing if I wasn't lowered or something. I will exchange or sell them.