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Old 08-02-2013, 07:49 AM
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Dude, awesome...that low and no camber, I love it.
I'm surprised you jumped on aligning already without playing with it for a few days!
You will max. You will.
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Listen to J! ^ He told me the same and look where I am.
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ALMOST maxed, but you live on a dirt road in the middle of tha country, that's understandable.
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If I max the front it'll look raked as hell, no me gusta.
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Originally Posted by rockstar143
Dude, awesome...that low and no camber, I love it.
I'm surprised you jumped on aligning already without playing with it for a few days!
You will max. You will.
I put on a lot of miles driving to work and I wanted to get it corrected. I'm happy with no gap and that's what I wanted originally. When I maxed it during install the springs were a pain to get seated when lowering back on the ground. I have it set to wear the springs stay seated when the car is jacked up.

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Listen to J! ^ He told me the same and look where I am.
Maybe one day I'll max it, but for now I'm happy with the height and drivability.
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no gap > maxed out

Looking good bro.

I can help you modding the headlights when you're ready if you want. Im actually thinking of redoing mine.
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I have no gap! AND maxed!
Adam, I'm with you on having to hold spring in place to lower though. That is annoying and I have a system for it.
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Originally Posted by MAS
no gap > maxed out

Looking good bro.

I can help you modding the headlights when you're ready if you want. Im actually thinking of redoing mine.
What are you going to do to yours? I may take you up on that. I could probably come up for the day and knock it out.
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I have no gap! AND maxed!
Adam, I'm with you on having to hold spring in place to lower though. That is annoying and I have a system for it.
I can see it being doing jacking up one corner at a time, but it seems like a pain using the jack points in the middle F/R. I did play around with the height a few times before getting it aligned. It was tucking a little tire initially, but I bumped up each corner a hair to run no gap. With the factory wheels, it reminded me of all the cheap cars around town that slam on stock wheels. The car almost looks broken and cheap.
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love the drop with the a-spec rims!

I wish my stance was like this!

I just need 20mm spacers and coilovers and camber kit to match lol
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not sure yet what I want to do. I'm thinking I want more contrast on the front end. So I might be trying to infuse more Chrome back in there. I already have the type-s diffusers which give me white/clear color workout totally losing the Amber which I really dig with nbp. Here's a pic of my headlight. Maybe if we do it together we can swap your Chrome housing for my flat black painted one.

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Looks Great Adam! How do you like the SPC rear camber kit, and assume you had no trouble getting toe in check. ? Did u come up to Tampa to have Gabe do the install?


Damn, that rolling shot of that White TL! Lol!

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Originally Posted by guitarplayer16
love the drop with the a-spec rims!

I wish my stance was like this!

I just need 20mm spacers and coilovers and camber kit to match lol
Do it! I fell in love with my car all over again.

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not sure yet what I want to do. I'm thinking I want more contrast on the front end. So I might be trying to infuse more Chrome back in there. I already have the type-s diffusers which give me white/clear color workout totally losing the Amber which I really dig with nbp. Here's a pic of my headlight. Maybe if we do it together we can swap your Chrome housing for my flat black painted one.

Yeah we can swap if you want my chrome housing. Shoot me a PM when you're thinking about doing this.

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Looks Great Adam! How do you like the SPC rear camber kit, and assume you had no trouble getting toe in check. ? Did u come up to Tampa to have Gabe do the install?


Damn, that rolling shot of that White TL! Lol!
Yup, I had Gabe do the install. The camber kit is really easy to adjust and the shop doing the alignment said they didn't have any problems. I'm glad I went with this over the Ingalls. The new OEM dust boots are cheap and easy to swap out. How did the side skirts work out for you?
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And I'm with Anil!
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Originally Posted by CLtotheTL32
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Originally Posted by rockstar143
And I'm with Anil!
Ask and you shall receive. I had to ship some parts I sold and I brought my camera with me. It just finished raining, my car got dirty, and it was bright as f*ck out.






One more showing my stance


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Love the drop man....and the flush stance....effin PERFECT
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Adam, you sure you're not a good candidate for super reds? I really do dig your setup and how it just looks like a badazz build on the oem look. I'd almost prefer to see you maybe do a blackout on the headlight but keep the amber, and do the super red look to keep the red look.

Hmmm...
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Dat flushness 15mm/20mm right? Looks excellent
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Old 08-06-2013, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by swoosh


Love the drop man....and the flush stance....effin PERFECT
Thanks! I'm loving the new setup more and more. I can't stop staring at my car every chance I get.

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Wow!
Thanks!

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Adam, you sure you're not a good candidate for super reds? I really do dig your setup and how it just looks like a badazz build on the oem look. I'd almost prefer to see you maybe do a blackout on the headlight but keep the amber, and do the super red look to keep the red look.

Hmmm...
I want to keep the amber in the headlights. I like to amber, just want to make people scratch their head and wonder why my headlights look different.

About the tails, I really don't think they will stand out enough for me to justify spending the money to mod them.

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Dat flushness 15mm/20mm right? Looks excellent
Yup, 15/20 and no rubbing.
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Adam...you'll do as you're told.
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Adam...you'll do as you're told.
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blackened headlights always look great on white cars

also put caliper covers and fog lights on the short list. Shouldnt be huge money, just the hassle of the fog light install.
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Fawwwkkkk that looks so good
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Originally Posted by MAS
blackened headlights always look great on white cars

also put caliper covers and fog lights on the short list. Shouldnt be huge money, just the hassle of the fog light install.
I agree, I think the headlights will look great. I do like the fog light idea, but I won't be doing the caliper covers. If I had the big brakes on the front, I'd put the covers on the rear. I don't like the idea of fake big brakes.

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Fawwwkkkk that looks so good
Thanks! Trying to catch up to yours.
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Originally Posted by Predatorbird
I agree, I think the headlights will look great. I do like the fog light idea, but I won't be doing the caliper covers. If I had the big brakes on the front, I'd put the covers on the rear. I don't like the idea of fake big brake.
cant say I disagree with you there.

Did you extend the exhaust tips?.....dont look sunken in like is usual with aspec kit.

did you have any exhaust mods? Ive got the stage 2 resonator if your interested.

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cant say I disagree with you there.

Did you extend the exhaust tips?.....dont look sunken in like is usual with aspec kit.

did you have any exhaust mods? Ive got the stage 2 resonator if your interested.
I took the quads off and put the OEM tips back on. I had them extended out and it looks much better now.

I have a stage 3 exhaust already. There really isn't a whole lot left on my list. I just want to keep it running good and keep up with routine maintenance.
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I hate trying to edit B&W, but the lighting sucked in this photo.


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I think it looks splendid...
Not a lot left to do...
better close your AZ account, buddy...
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yeah, funny guy right. That has never been said before. I don't have time to check but I believe I said the same thing about 1.5 yrs ago, now I got these fog lights and this big aluminum thing in my engine bay that I don't know where it came from.

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Originally Posted by rockstar143
I think it looks splendid...
Not a lot left to do...
better close your AZ account, buddy...
Or better yet, maybe I'll sell the car.

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yeah, funny guy right. That has never been said before. I don't have time to check but I believe I said the same thing about 1.5 yrs ago, now I got these fog lights and this big aluminum thing in my engine bay that I don't know where it came from.
I'm sure I'll find little things to do, but nothing big. I like clean and simple. I drive over 20k miles a year so I need it to be reliable. This car is not built for performance, especially the auto. I got this after driving a modded Cobra, so I know it won't ever be to that level.
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WOW...


Tyler, your WDP is getting a nice competition by Adams....Loving both the WDP's
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I haven't been able to get new pics with all the rain here recently, but I did start a new project this morning. I've been getting a lot of rattling from my OEM sub and I finally pulled apart the rear interior to fix it. I read about a product called Peel & Seal that works just like dynamat, but at a fraction of the cost. I picked it up at Lowes for $17 for a 6''x25' roll. The bass sound nice and clean now.



There was already a few pieces of dynamat between the sub and driver speaker. It was really hot and you can see where I started putting left over pieces.



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Woot! I have some obnoxious ass rattles to fix as well but I don't want to pull the door panel off


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