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Old Jun 23, 2014 | 05:22 PM
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Got my coilovers in today a whole week early. I'm going to try and find some time this weekend to throw these on and roll my fenders.
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Old Jun 24, 2014 | 01:18 PM
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got your brackets from lrd yet?
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Old Jun 24, 2014 | 07:20 PM
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He shipped them today and sent me a tracking. They should be here tomorrow or Thursday since he lives in FL. I also got my coilovers on as well as my wheels.
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Old Jun 24, 2014 | 08:44 PM
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looks really nice!
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Old Jun 24, 2014 | 08:44 PM
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looks great man!
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Old Jun 24, 2014 | 09:32 PM
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making lots of progress quite fast, i like.
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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 01:32 AM
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How much did you drop the front/rear?
Can you take a new picture that shows how the rear tires sit now when lowered?
Preferably from the same angle that you had in the previous picture, thanks!

Edit: Oh and did you roll/pull the fenders?
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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 03:28 AM
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Originally Posted by tiger4life
looks really nice!
Originally Posted by Sevenevez
looks great man!
Originally Posted by monkey92
making lots of progress quite fast, i like.
Thanks guys
Originally Posted by Lutkis
How much did you drop the front/rear?
Can you take a new picture that shows how the rear tires sit now when lowered?
Preferably from the same angle that you had in the previous picture, thanks!

Edit: Oh and did you roll/pull the fenders?
I lowered the front and rear about two inches. I'm going to get an alignment today so I'll take some pictures after I get that done.
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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 06:24 AM
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looking good.... look at all the room left on the coilovers to go even lower...
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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 06:34 AM
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Lol lower? .... I just left tire Kingdom attempting to get an alignment..... The said everything is out of spec except my rear toe. I'm thinking of going with some ISF wheels.That way I could at least be in spec. I have it on the stiffest setting and it's pretty harsh... But I'm not rubbing at all. I'm going to adjust them halfway and see how it rides

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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 07:24 AM
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you don't need new wheels to be in spec unless you have crazy offsets. those look good .
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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 07:28 AM
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Did they actually attempt to align your car or only tell you how out of whack it was? One more thing...how do you figure changing wheels will help your alignment? If anything, raise your car back up or buy adjustable suspension arms; I'm opting for the latter
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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by tmf2004
you don't need new wheels to be in spec unless you have crazy offsets. those look good .
The off set is +22 F and +25 R

Originally Posted by NorthStyle
Did they actually attempt to align your car or only tell you how out of whack it was? One more thing...how do you figure changing wheels will help your alignment? If anything, raise your car back up or buy adjustable suspension arms; I'm opting for the latter
The corrected what they could. Im going to post a pic of the print out they gave me. I would love to keep the wheels and get everything corrected. If i changed the wheels to a less aggressive offset i would have more room to make adjustments.
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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 10:11 AM
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The only thing aggressive wheels affect is how much extra camber you have to run to get the wheels to clear the fender.

Caster isn't adjustable, so if that's out of spec, you need new bushings in the #2 lower control arms.

Camber is probably out of spec. If you run less aggressive wheels (ISF), you can adjust the camber bolt to max positive but it still doesn't mean you be in spec because it's lowered. Once you lower a couple inches you probably need a camber correction kit if you want it in the factory range.

As long as your toe is set to dead zero, camber really won't kill your tires quickly. When I had weak wheels (pictured), I want to say I was around -1.8 or 2 in the front and -2.1 or 2.2 in the rear max positive.
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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 01:16 PM
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Here is the print out:


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