Wastegate13
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If you don't want to get your hands dirty or do a little work then don't mod the car. If everyone had your attitude all of our cars would be stock.
eibach 25mm spacers installed [pictures]
- Thread starter madvillian
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If you don't want to get your hands dirty or do a little work then don't mod the car. If everyone had your attitude all of our cars would be stock.
Maybe he's trying to gauge how much work it would be vs. the outcome to see if it's worth it to him. We're all different ya know.
If everyone had your online attitude, we'd be less inclined to ask any questions at all.
I think the spacers look awesome. It's very subtle. Sometimes the least obvious improves the look the most.
Exactly what I was trying to do. Thanks for lookin out Swampass
Smokehouse
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Go easy man...
"hard" or "easy" is a perception based term with many...I think he was trying to feel out how hard this is-vs-issues with fitment.
Wastegate13
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I obviously come from a different school of thought. If I wanted to do something I would just do it, regardless of the difficulty.
Now for his question, rubbing will largely depend on your effective offset, your tire size, and your suspension. He is running coilovers with a higher spring rate than the stock springs, his rear fenders are pulled and he's running an awful lot of negative camber in the rear. If you aren't capable or willing to do all of the above to achieve the same result he achieved then you are better off leaving the car the way it is. I did not mean to be rude in my earlier post but you need to pay to play if you want to run aggressive fitments.
Smokehouse
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I know what you're saying but there's a few issues with that school of thought...
1- Running into a wall head first might make a hole...but mostly it splits your skull open. Learning from other's mistakes/successes by asking ?'s isn't a bad thing at times.
2- Not everyone has the technical ability to do in depth projects. Simply putting on some spacers is eazy...doing a ton of suspension/body mods to support those spacers is not. Sometimes the job is as easy as it looks (installing a BPV)...often is it not (replacing the stock springs).
Another thought is like the guy asking the question, I do not know the supporting mods the OP had made...to me it looked like he put on some spacers and pulled the rear fender a bit. From the angle of the pics I could not tell if the car was dropped (I could see some negative camber on the rears but I wasn't sure if this was intentional).
From an outside reading...the OP seems as if it says "Ok...put on some spacers with stock wheels...have a look"...I would not have assumed there were other major suspension mods...
fostersafb
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I was looking at the 20mm spacer as maybe a nice compromise. The 15mm's look good on builthatch's but it looks like it could be pushed out just a tad more.
Maybe even 20mm rear and 25mm fronts if thats available?
Those of us with height and camber adjustment have a little more wiggle room.
madvillian
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i mean this certainly isnt as drastic as my 18x9 setup, those i had to work my ass off to get to fit in the rear. if you wanted to give your car a nice drop, with some roadmagnets or h&rs or even coilovers, then you could easily pull off some 15mm spacers with minimal work and without running a god awful amount of camber.
once i get my camber links installed i think im going to have to grind down that pinchweld in the rear fender well where the bumper attaches, ive already cut it down in size for the 245/35's, but since im back to a 45 sidewall tire i think im going to catch it after that camber is gone.
and as far as the added stress goes, after i think about it more i dont think 25mms would make much of a difference. its a pretty negligible amount comparatively speaking to some of the more common spacer kits out there for other cars which when looking for these i saw some upwards of 90mm's
once i get my camber links installed i think im going to have to grind down that pinchweld in the rear fender well where the bumper attaches, ive already cut it down in size for the 245/35's, but since im back to a 45 sidewall tire i think im going to catch it after that camber is gone.
and as far as the added stress goes, after i think about it more i dont think 25mms would make much of a difference. its a pretty negligible amount comparatively speaking to some of the more common spacer kits out there for other cars which when looking for these i saw some upwards of 90mm's
madvillian
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thats exactly what i would do if i were you.
thanks for the PM's back and forth madvillian. I just pulled the plug and got the 25mm myself. I currently have 1/4 inch spacers but wanted that extra spacing. Wish they sold 20mm on the website I got them from. But I think the 25mm will be great, thanks again!
madvillian
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no problem pal, let me know when you get them if you need help, id be glad to lend a hand if possible!
From?
http://www.autoanything.com/suspension-systems/61A2607A0A0A2662682.aspx
you have to buy two set to equal 4 spacers
you have to buy two set to equal 4 spacers
Wastegate13
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If they aren't hubcentric you could get some vibration. Been a while since I took math class but 45-5=40 sounds about right to me.
