The Rebirth of an OG

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Old 01-22-2016, 10:47 PM
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glad to see you are still active!
Old 02-11-2016, 10:15 PM
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nice rebuild man. I love the attention to detail
Old 03-26-2018, 03:50 PM
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I am making the first change to her in a long time right now. After showing for so many years and the car being more show than anything else I took the car to the dragon back in November 2016. I had an absolute blast with it. I had planned to do some upgrades after that but not long after I had some serious issues with my V Wagon which ate all my car mod money until pretty much now.

I want to build the car more now for the mountains and maybe even eventually take it to the track. So out with the skinny stretched 215/40-18 tires on the 18x9 and in with some meaty 255/35-18 tires.

255/35-18 Nitto Invo. Really wanted to do some Yokohama AD08R but was trying to stay within a budget for the time being to see home much I enjoy the car in this configuration. If I love it I will switch out for those at it is pretty much never driven in the rain and only on weekends so having a soft track focused tire won't be the end of the world.


Old vs New


Some nice straight sidewalls


Old setup on the car still in the background as I only had two of the tires mounted for now as I wasn't sure they would fit and really didn't want to do any fender work.


Raised the car up 1/2in to get them to fit and even be able to turn the wheel.






Thinking I will probably raise it another 3/4in so I have space for suspension travel with the beefier tires. Hopefully this will be enough.




For the rears I have to finally install my extended studs I bought years ago to replace the factory studs I cut so I could use bolt on spacers. I will also be removing most of the negative camber I had been running to fit wide wheels with stretched tires so I can run the rears mostly flat now instead.
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Can't wait to see more Jason!
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