Sweet drift car build BRO (Now with more SR!)

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Errrg, I'd say you just created more work for yourself. Find yer wrenches and fix the droop.. Pbm's are made to go low the correct way.. I lift tires on the daily I'm sure you do too so it's going to be hell driving now. You could have used a screwdriver and a hammer.

Is your faux-cat upside down? it can have more clearance 1 way more than the other, but I'd have to looksee.

Nice jorb winterizing and brake padsising yo.



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Didderson wrote:Errrg, I'd say you just created more work for yourself. Find yer wrenches and fix the droop.. Pbm's are made to go low the correct way.. I lift tires on the daily I'm sure you do too so it's going to be hell driving now. You could have used a screwdriver and a hammer.

Is your faux-cat upside down? it can have more clearance 1 way more than the other, but I'd have to looksee.

Nice jorb winterizing and brake padsising yo.
I did use a hammer and screwdriver, haha. I moved each collar separately. I don't know if I feel like playing monster truck rally up my driveway today to fix it... We'll see how bored I get.

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ILoveMyRHS13 wrote:Then I lowered the rear a tiny bit.
Haha that sight looks familiar. Except my frame rails were lower and my cat (or lack of) was higher.

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My cat tucks up higher than the frame rail, that's just my downpipe, haha.

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Ah my bad yo. i forgot u have a factory dp with the heat shields on. looks kinda like a cat from there lol. how does it drive?

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doug you are crazy for being that low

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nice build man keep it coming ..does spraying tire shine on your coilover really help during the winter ?

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JDM Sil4ty wrote:nice build man keep it coming ..does spraying tire shine on your coilover really help during the winter ?
Tire shine repels water, so in a way, yes. I'm not really worried about these coils getting corroded, they're the Gen II from PBM, they have better protection against that sort of thing.

I haven't driven it yet... Keegan is helping me bleed the brakes tomorrow because the seal on the rear caliper leaked air into the system, so the brakes are garbage. I can't wait to get the lip back on, it'll get scraped a lot more. :D

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Lol I forgot that I yanked mine off.

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ya the ability to scrape the pignose lip is one of the main reasons im still pignose.

i should go lower my non running car some more.

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pandapants wrote:why'd you droop the spring?
threadjack, srry, panda, are you on 18s in your sig?


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Un-drooped the coils. Lowered the rear about an eighth of an inch (waiting for alignment) and I also installed hub-centric rings.

Oh, and I mounted this dude up. Only did the front. I ran out of time to do the others.

I'm not at all satisfied with the height... I need to remove collars. :/

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Looks reaaaaaaally good man. I think you're going to smash that front light in no time though dude... lol like seriously Iunno about thiss but drive slo

Props for being low enough around here to damage... everything that makes a car a car.

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The day I scrape/bash tension rod is the day I worry about bashing that LED bar.

I was looking at older pictures (from this summer) and I realized I really need my lip and skirts back on... So f***ing bad. The car really looks like s*** and I'm starting to hate it. Not to mention, it's slow as balls, hahah.

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Compress the spring and then max it out again you could go WAY lower.

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coming along great

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nihon wrote:threadjack, srry, panda, are you on 18s in your sig?
17s.

How does the car feel with those rings?

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pandapants wrote:How does the car feel with those rings?
Much better. It only got rid of the annoying wiggle from the wheels because if I didn't center the wheel when I put it back on it would wobble so it's finally gone. $10 fix, haha.

And I don't plan on compressing the springs, just removing collars and if I have to, I'll buy MAX' lower springs.

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you ever get those back brakes fixed?im going to junkyard this week. i could grab u the one u need off the j30 thats hiding in there if you need it.

and... do you like transmission work?

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bersh240 wrote:you ever get those back brakes fixed?im going to junkyard this week. i could grab u the one u need off the j30 thats hiding in there if you need it.

and... do you like transmission work?
Yeah, brakes are fixed. I have J30 rear spindles sitting in my garage, with brakes, but thanks.

What kind of transmission work?

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flywheel replacement..

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ILoveMyRHS13 wrote:
Holy shnikes bro. I hope you paid like $5 for this stuff cause thats gonna crack in half on the 1st couple of bumps.

PS. Where did you get the hub-centric rings from? Might come in handy when i put on the Works in the spring.

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Dizel01 wrote:Holy shnikes bro. I hope you paid like $5 for this stuff cause thats gonna crack in half on the 1st couple of bumps.

PS. Where did you get the hub-centric rings from? Might come in handy when i put on the Works in the spring.
I doubt it will break. That's the highest place I could mount it in the front.Like I said, the day I scrape/bang tension rod is the day I worry about busting the LEDs. Plus, they're plexiglass, they're tough.

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Ur right about it being durable. I should clarify that unless you hit a ramp of some sort you prob won't break it, because the tension rod mounts are lower.

You're like a Buddha of pictar love. All love flows out to other threads and none remains for your thread... Whyyyyyy lol... I like the candy colors on the bumper. blue lights and highlighter zipties ftw.

Bersh.. i can do transmission/flywheel work... If you have a garage.. then I Really can do transmission work Lol..

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Didderson wrote:
.. then I Really can do transmission work Lol..
fix my transmission Tom?


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mrgreeneyes wrote:
fix my transmission Tom?
lol fugly.com ... potato po tot o

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ILoveMyRHS13 wrote:I doubt it will break. That's the highest place I could mount it in the front.Like I said, the day I scrape/bang tension rod is the day I worry about busting the LEDs. Plus, they're plexiglass, they're tough.
Lol you have NO idea. My Tension rod brackets are mangledddddd.

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Slight update, the neon tube has YET to be scraped. And that's going in and out of driveways, etc.

EDIT: NEVERf***INGMIND
Modified by ILoveMyRHS13 at 3:18 PM 1/8/2010

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s*** dude i saw those on zilvia i wanted them. ha oh well

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Future_gohan wrote:s*** dude i saw those on zilvia i wanted them. ha oh well
LOL. I saw that. Aren't you looking for a new chassis, though?


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