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My Redeisigned SBM GS400

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Old 05-20-09, 03:45 AM
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Your car look amazing, and tasteful. If you can get your car half driveable and not risk any damage roll with it how it is..awesome set up.
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Love the colour , send the car back to get the orange peel wetsanded out as it gets real bad on the 1/4's.
Please don't disgrace such status rims by putting ghetto Nankangs on them those are for LDR knockoffs.
Anyway nice car.
Old 05-20-09, 05:33 AM
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Originally Posted by skperformance
Love the colour , send the car back to get the orange peel wetsanded out as it gets real bad on the 1/4's.
Please don't disgrace such status rims by putting ghetto Nankangs on them those are for LDR knockoffs.
Anyway nice car.
Thank you, I convinced the shop to give me back the car for the BBQ but it is going back to get everything finished. I actually like the nankangs they stretch real well and with the amount of camber I have its not worth spending $2-300 per tire just to throw them away.

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Old 05-20-09, 06:04 AM
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Looks like I got a Twin in the NE



Sweet looking car man. Well done.
Old 05-20-09, 06:50 AM
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Look's great
Old 05-20-09, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Bombsquad
Your car look amazing, and tasteful. If you can get your car half driveable and not risk any damage roll with it how it is..awesome set up.
Driveable? The car is very driveable just depends on amount of passengers or weight if it will rub. Risk of damage is another issue all by itself, I live in NYC damage is the name of the game here I have seen stock cars get damaged.
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Originally Posted by LEXUS_KID
Look's great
Thank you sir, coming from an OG like you it is a great compliment
Old 05-20-09, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Jedidiah
Looks like I got a Twin in the NE

Sweet looking car man. Well done.
Thank you, I dont know if I am a exactly a twin lol. Fraternal maybe.
Old 05-20-09, 08:28 AM
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How much camber are you running up front and in the rear?
Old 05-20-09, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by CleanS14
How much camber are you running up front and in the rear?
Rear is maxed out full negative I would estimate -5 degrees of camber. Havent put it back up on the rack but as I was sitting at the height full positive yeilded me a -2.5 degrees on the left and -3.0 degrees on the right. Toe and caster was within acceptable specs. Front is maxed out full positive but due to the drop front camber is at -2.2 and -1.8.
Old 05-20-09, 09:48 AM
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jeebus! damn that car has come a long way. looks fantastic vlad!!!
Old 05-20-09, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Vic Nyce
jeebus! damn that car has come a long way. looks fantastic vlad!!!
Thank you Vic, I told you that I had something big in the works and as soon as I go air maybe more
Old 05-20-09, 12:05 PM
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very nice....whole car seems to flow very well. keep it up
Old 05-20-09, 12:13 PM
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i might camber out my fronts more for the "look", already at 3 degrees at ride height
Old 05-20-09, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Spyder78
If you dont shave it and attempt to roll it you are adding another layer to the rear quarters and run a high risk of dimpling the quarter since the when you remove the metal trim on the lip it leaves holes which do not give you a level surface to roll. The way that I initially did it was that I rolled it flat, it was a mistake it put an extra 3mm of metal on the inside of the quarter. The proper way to do it is to cut the rear lip but be careful not to hit the seams and than roll the rest of it flat. That will give you a level surface in order to apply equal pressure and prevent you from dimpling the quarter.
cool. could u take pics of the rear quarters? i want to see how yours look and came out.
the thing thats not clear to me still, is how much does one shave before he can roll it nicely.


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