well i just picked up some volk evo3 17x8 (front) and 17x9(rear) unfortunately i do rub.. i think the offset it like 30? im not really sure i might get thinner tires.. front 235 45 rear 255 40

 

ill post some pics as soon as i get my lap top back!

 

Yeah dude get thinner tires and stretch that SOB, I wanted 9" in the rear but they wouldnt fit and I was too cheap to pull the fenders

 

damn 60-90 days... long ass wait for a set of test rims lol. but damn seems like everything takes days for your car. and nice choice in rims.

 

yeah imma just roll with the wheels i have on now.. then once they get all worn then ill pick up some new tires.. sucks because when i had my 16's i was low.. now with the 17's im a bit higher.. i hate it!!

 

Dude, tell me about it. I've been playing the waiting game with this car for years now. I've driven it a total of 1 month in the past 25 months.

 

emotionnnnnns FTMFW!

 

You poor baby, must be hard driving a lexus for a beater everyday

 

Shitty pics, and I think I can go a bit lower without sacrificing my suspension geometry too much.

 

sickkk, i like!

 

wow

those actually look sick, a lot better than I thought they would

good ish!

 

Nice chris you finally got em on, look sick you def needed the fender flares though

 

i like, but what happened to your car? the quarter panel is all rippled and the hoods popping up?

 

the engine doesnt fit flush under the hood, and he has fender flares to fit the wheels.

 

so he bent the hood? why not just get a hood scoop?

 

Love 'em.

They flow really well with the car.

 

here I thought he was asking about the bullethole

 

if he didnt bend it, it wouldnt look as sleeper as it does? idunno. and a hood scoop would look weird on our car..

 

Nothing's more sleeper than the diamond plate sunroof man

 

looks sick

 

The hood is not bent. There is a part of the hood where you can see from the engine hitting it during WOT. I believe my headlights are part of the problem as I didn't use all the bolts to bolt them down and now they point upwards a bit, thus having the hood sit on them making it sit higher. But in either case, my engine does hit the hood during WOT.

What you see in the rear are the fender flares which you can see in the front as well. I can take another shot if you'd like to see why I need them. I wanted to widen the wheel base, and did so with an aggressive offset.

 

I only put them on for that shot. They've been sitting in my car for months with the tires. I took them right back off and put them back in the car, lol. I was thinking today that I never posted pics with the new 40mm sidewalls. I know in the past I took pics of one with my test tire which had a 45mm sidewall that I didn't like.

 

looks dope.

 

nice chris.

 

trippy? i dont know really what to say. personally id fab up some kind of hood scoop. it wouldnt be ugly if you got the right kind. whatev though, enough moneys been put in to cocoas cl haha

 

i cant wait til one day you fix up the exterior nicely.

it has so much potential with those rims.

 

sickness

 

What a sick black on black on black CL. I love it!

 

on bronze?

 

love it bro, looking good.

 

wicked man I like the look. wide like a fat chick

 

LMFAO!! THATS RIGHT THO

 

For looks, yes. But a cornered balanced setup wont have the slammed look unless you have double wishbone suspension.

 

shit cocoa getting technical on me. lol.

 

What else is new

 

Cornered balanced just means the same amount of weight is being put on each corner of the car by adjusting the suspension accordinly (it transfers the weight from one end to another by changing the ride height). This will make the car look funny for some. It may have a 1 inch gap in the front driver side, while having a 1 1/2 inch gap in the front passenger side. And the same can go for the rear. It's an example, but it's to give you an idea of what's being done when you get a car cornered balanced. Also keep in mind that your negative camber turns into positive camber during hard cornering if the lower control arms are flared upright due to the slammed look.

So again, it looks great, but unless it's double wishbone suspension, it's something to think about. I don't know the answer to how low you can go on this car before having the effects I mentioned, but it's something a tuning shop can measure for you. I was told by another member that tracks his CL that you can actually go pretty low on this car based on what was said to him by the shop that measured it for him. I personally would feel better having it done anyways knowing regardless.

I forgot to mention, be sure if you do have it corner balanced, have it done with you in the car.