Some new *pics* Better pics of the new front drop, cleaned engine bay
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Thanks fellas.
It's an Acura TL-S bar. Picked it up at the local Acura dealer parts dept. for $50. It includes the stock Accord braces, but also has the spanning bar welded in there. Functional and cheap.
Originally posted by carta79
:thumbup: I could eat off your engine bay, looks clean and brand new. The wheel and tire package came out great! Where did you get that front tower bar?
:thumbup: I could eat off your engine bay, looks clean and brand new. The wheel and tire package came out great! Where did you get that front tower bar?
My other car is also slow
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Originally posted by NYCs Finest LX
damn that car is sessy...
wish i wasnt riding on hubcaps...
damn that car is sessy...
wish i wasnt riding on hubcaps...
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Re: DAMN YOU!!!
Originally posted by GhettoMax
EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR CAR, I FEEL LIKE BURNING MINE!!! :fawk:
VERY VERY, NICE car jschmid :thumbup:
EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR CAR, I FEEL LIKE BURNING MINE!!! :fawk:
VERY VERY, NICE car jschmid :thumbup:
My other car is also slow
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From: Tri-Cities, WA
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LX4CYL, I am going to safely assume that you were commenting on my car in your last post, thank you very much for your kind words, its just Eibach Pro-Kit, not sure exactly how much but just enough to look decent and ride decent.
The only problem I am having with this somewhat inexpensive setup is that after I got the chamber kits installed and the car re-aligned (last year once I was tired of wearing down tires prematurely.) Now the tires wear slow and even but if I have more than three people (or a lot of heavy stuff in my car) and I go over a bump the rear tires scrape the wheel well and it sounds very bad. But its ok because I usually dont have that many people or so much stuff in my car so it works out well. If I do have people in my car I usually just take it extra easy over the bumps.
The only problem I am having with this somewhat inexpensive setup is that after I got the chamber kits installed and the car re-aligned (last year once I was tired of wearing down tires prematurely.) Now the tires wear slow and even but if I have more than three people (or a lot of heavy stuff in my car) and I go over a bump the rear tires scrape the wheel well and it sounds very bad. But its ok because I usually dont have that many people or so much stuff in my car so it works out well. If I do have people in my car I usually just take it extra easy over the bumps.
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yep, you have a 1.5" drop all around.
I know that if you correct your rear camber, your tires will go from / \ to | |
*| |* The stars are where your tires are touching the outside lip. You could probably fix this by either shaving away part of the plastic bumper lip, or rolling the metal fender lip (risky). Your best bet is to jack the car up so that the rear tires are touching, so you can see where it's rubbing.
BTW, was your tire wear that bad ?
BTW, do you have more pics of your drop? Because it looks much lower than what I thought a 1.5" drop would look like :thumbup:
I know that if you correct your rear camber, your tires will go from / \ to | |
*| |* The stars are where your tires are touching the outside lip. You could probably fix this by either shaving away part of the plastic bumper lip, or rolling the metal fender lip (risky). Your best bet is to jack the car up so that the rear tires are touching, so you can see where it's rubbing.
BTW, was your tire wear that bad ?
BTW, do you have more pics of your drop? Because it looks much lower than what I thought a 1.5" drop would look like :thumbup:
My other car is also slow
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LX4CYL, Thanks for the suggestions I will try to do something like that later this summer.
You are right the tires used to be like / \ and now they look perfectly | | (for some strange reason I liked when it was / \ hehe)
Yea the tire wear in my case was pretty bad, even the les schwab guy that did the initial alignment after he installed the springs said that he had installed similar springs on other cars like mine and the camber wasnt as bad as it was on mine! (great!) but he said that none of those people had too much problem with tire wear and told me that I could drive around for a while and see if the tire wear is bad, if it is bad i could go back and get chamber kits installed.
Well I drove it for a year without noticing much tire wear (or thats what I thought) until one day when I was washing my car and I noticed that the inner sides of all four tires on my car were badly worn, the rear tires where bare down to the wires!
You are right the tires used to be like / \ and now they look perfectly | | (for some strange reason I liked when it was / \ hehe)
Yea the tire wear in my case was pretty bad, even the les schwab guy that did the initial alignment after he installed the springs said that he had installed similar springs on other cars like mine and the camber wasnt as bad as it was on mine! (great!) but he said that none of those people had too much problem with tire wear and told me that I could drive around for a while and see if the tire wear is bad, if it is bad i could go back and get chamber kits installed.
Well I drove it for a year without noticing much tire wear (or thats what I thought) until one day when I was washing my car and I noticed that the inner sides of all four tires on my car were badly worn, the rear tires where bare down to the wires!