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rawill240sx
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Before

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I consider it flush in the front, in the rear I could probably use a 5mm or 10mm spacer to achieve uber flushness.


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I've seen those on a few websites. Pretty light. They look better that I thought they would. Nice!

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Hey, those look pretty good! They're the Falken Hanabi's right? Just curious, but what offset/size are they?

rawill240sx
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Yep they are the Hanabi's 17x7.5 with a 32 offset.Tires are Falken 512s 215/45.

I was a little disappointed by the total weight of the wheels and tires (40lbs) 6 pounds heavier than the stock wheels with 205/60(34lbs)

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looks awesome :thumbup

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looks tight, now get rid of that unsightly wheelgap ;)

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major improvement over the saw blades.

rawill240sx
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Thanks for the positive feedback guys. So far I'm very happy with them, and there should be no problems with clearence in the future when I upgrade the suspension. There probably 10 or 12 mm of clearence between the strut and wheel.

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Nice wheels man. Nice to see something that's not in a honda offset. Do you plan to go with coilovers or a spring/damper combo?

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Not too shabby.

rawill240sx
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skydragoness5 wrote:Nice wheels man. Nice to see something that's not in a honda offset. Do you plan to go with coilovers or a spring/damper combo?


I'm not sure yet. That upgrade is at least a couple of months away and will depend on cash flow at that time.

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Nice shoes. Nice feet. Sweetness!

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Wheels look great!

The car is super clean also.:thumbup

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I like how they angle forward like the old ones. It seems to give it an aggressive look that still fits the car well.

edit: fixed poor grammers ;)

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rawill240sx wrote:I'm not sure yet. That upgrade is at least a couple of months away and will depend on cash flow at that time.


what do you plan on doing with the car? (curious) Autocross? Drag? Other stuff? Because a good set of springs/dampers would probably be perfect, then you'd have enough money to spend on the other tired suspension components

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those look nice, how do the tires handle?

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looking good :D

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NICE!!

Looks clean, I like the simplicity of the design.

rawill240sx
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what do you plan on doing with the car? (curious) Autocross? Drag? Other stuff? Because a good set of springs/dampers would probably be perfect, then you'd have enough money to spend on the other tired suspension components

Right now it just my daily driver so a spring/strut combo would be fine but one can dream.

those look nice, how do the tires handle?

So far they seem to handle pretty good, they came shipped with only 35psi in them. This made them feel a little soft going into a turn. I put an addition 5psi in them and feel really good. To me they feel like there tons of traction, but I had a really sad set of tires before getting these so any thing is a vast improvement. I'm not sure about wet weather performance yet, only had one rainy day since I got them and I didn't drive enough that day to get a good feel for them.

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rawill240sx wrote:Right now it just my daily driver so a spring/strut combo would be fine but one can dream.


IMO coilovers can be overkill on a daily-driven car. :oface

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interesting way of taking pictures. Kind of a freeze frame effect.


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