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Old 01-09-10, 07:50 PM
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Default New suspension for the New Year

Last night, bought a set of Tein Flex. Took a few shots.







What you think?
Old 01-10-10, 09:07 PM
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looks great, im not sure if its the angle but i would drop the front a lil more. how is the ride? bottom out or scraping ? looks nice
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i seen this on my is.. like i said.. it looks good, but you need diffrent wheels to set off the look.
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Originally Posted by skitso1080
looks great, im not sure if its the angle but i would drop the front a lil more. how is the ride? bottom out or scraping ? looks nice
Thanks, and yep the front is little higher than the rear for now, will be lowering it sometime this week to make it leveled out. the ride is rough on bad roads, but when you get on the hghway its smooth, almost like stock. havent bottomed out nor scraped.


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i seen this on my is.. like i said.. it looks good, but you need diffrent wheels to set off the look.
Thanks, i plan on tossin on some differnt wheels here in a couple months.
Old 01-14-10, 07:38 AM
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Drop looks good. Id agree though a bit loweer in the front or bring up the rear just a hair. You'll have to redo it once you get new wheels anyways and you might want to look into an alignment in a week or two so you dont burn through those tires.

What you thinking for wheels? Offset?
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Looks good, and new wheels will really complete the look.
Old 01-14-10, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by cricket056
Drop looks good. Id agree though a bit loweer in the front or bring up the rear just a hair. You'll have to redo it once you get new wheels anyways and you might want to look into an alignment in a week or two so you dont burn through those tires.

What you thinking for wheels? Offset?
Thanks, yea i dropped hte front some, will take new updated pics this weekend and will finally get alignment. Havnet decided on wheels yet, i love the way meshies look on the IS, thinking bout goin SSR Professor MS1. As far as offset goes, thats also undecided.

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Looks good, and new wheels will really complete the look.
Thanks.
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*Update Pics, Front has been lowered*



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I think the mesh look is the best.
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Originally Posted by aristo123
I think the mesh look is the best.
i agree 150% meshies look so beast on IS3
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Nice drop.. perfect..
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Looks great!
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Originally Posted by tmf2004
Nice drop.. perfect..
Thanks bro.

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Looks great!
Thanks broski.
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