yeh never snows here either...
she is a street slut every day of the week

 

yea, what mike said. winter in jerz can be a bitch sometimes

 

Yeah the roof spoiler is from Ebay and the wheels are CCW.

 

Mines a DD here in jersey... ....and has no garage..

 

Indeed it can. I'm originally from Toms River

As long as you're not in Trenton or Asbury Park. That does suck though.

 

Just so worried about these salt trucks..i got a glimpse of what they do in october...man they show no mercy

 

same here . . . . .

 

This will be my cars first time seeing snow. Hopefully the salt and crap doesn't get too bad to start rust.. Im getting stationed in California next may/June anyway.

 

Yea those salt trucks are brutal..i avoid them at all costs

 

i try to run my car through a touchless car wash (with undercarriage spray) once or twice a week in the winter months when salt's all around. just gotta keep at it...

 

Ok thanks. I'm going to trying and find one around here somewhere

 

You'll love it here. It's the place to be if you are obsessed about keeping your car clean. lol

 

So previously I had 20mm spacers in the rear and 15 in the front.
Decided to go 5mm bigger on both.
Got 25 for rear and used the old 20 for the front.
Well upon taking the rear one off I had same issue with taking off the nuts due to the fact that I torqued the shit out of them when I first installed them.
Used breaker bar and impact wrench the nut material would just twist to the fact that they seized up to the aluminum spacer (different material).
So heating them up with a propane torch worked!! took me about 2-3 min of heating up each bolt, hammer down on the bolt end lightly, than using impact torque wrench finally did the job.
Installed the 25mm in rear and 20mm with easy install in the front.
Both ends rub now, so time to roll my fenders this Saturday!

Here are some install pics:







ALWAYS TORQUE DOWN THE NUTS ON SPACERS AND WHEELS TO 85lb-ft.





REAR:





REAR:



FRONT:



CURRENT STANCE:

 

That looks so much better with the spacers

 

Looks great vlad ....spacers make the oem wheels look so good!!...im glad i did mine

 

Heck yea sounds like the place for me for sure then. I had a s2000 before the evo n that thing was my garage queen!! I will be in petaluma (sp?), CA. Where are you?

 

I am so glad I can garage mine now. It snowed here for 2 days which is odd in the desert.

I did get a chance to put my continental DWS to work though and must say I do believe I will keep these tires until I move to Florida. Although they provided no support on ice (go figure) they were a very nice tire in snow/slush driving.

While not an aggresive winter tire it is good year round driving and also benefits when needed. I have not tried them in wet weather due to the fact that it never rains here and when it does I try to avoid driving my car.

I finally got my tranny for the wifes odyssey so will be swapping that this days off and next days off I will be pulling front bumper to send off headlights and spraying grill and redoing fog lights.

I traded getting a pistol for xmas to get my car fixed up a little. and the wife is getting a Canon T3i camera for xmas so when all finished I should be able to post some high quality pictures of everything.

And those spacers do make the stock rims look different enough to be worth keeping.
Do the original lug studs protrude out of the spacer enough to touch the wheel?? Just doesnt seem like that would work as well as it does?

Cars are looking good as usual and welcom to the new members on here!!!!!

 

Original studs do stick out out of the spacer but they dont touch the rim. Oem rims have some sort of caved in notch in between every whole so the extra poked out bolt just goes into that hole

 

"the best for last" <-wow thank you!

Thanks guys!

M3 style roof spoiler from eBay seller oembmwshop and wheels are CCWs.

 

Fellow UA7 members I need some ?s answered!

Nav2Go...Isimple...How am I getting audio after Nav2Go is installed?

Where does the audio come from using a composite A/V ipod wire? Am I plugging into isimple?

 

^hit up donnieb83..i know he has done this and he will def be happy to help you out

 

Courtesy of jptl04:

 

I like the S2000 but it's probably too small for my likings. Holy crap it's 9 hours away from San Diego. NorCal booooo

 

Thanks for the diagram!

I still have a problem, Everything I've read so far even this diagram, No one says exactly how im going to get audio from my ipod!!!!????

That diagram is awesome though!

Where am I hooking up the composite A/V cable to get the audio?

 

slightly off topic...
or TLs only have bluetooth for handfree phone connection but not audio stream like the new generation of Acuras.
so if anyone is interested in clean set up and dont want any aux wires running to your iphone/ipod or any bluetooth enabled phone/device than get this from Apple/Belkin...
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H2652LL/A

I have it installed in my car... clean audio... no aux wires... easy connection..
Just plug into the aux wire and the 12v power plug.
Anyone who drives with me and wants to play their music they can just connect wirelessly.

I also did try installing Apple TV in my car with nav2go, so I had wireless video and audio streaming, but unfortunately wifi and 3G data cant run together off iPhone so couldn't play youtube.. but everything else worked.. maybe ill do a little write up on it later on

 

You would run your composite A/V cables (red & white only obviously) to one of the ports on the PIE X3 audio selector.

Interesting...I've never thought about this. What are the benefits of running videos off the AppleTV instead of just straight off your iPhone? Seems like the latter would be more ideal. Your iPhone has direct access to YouTube and the iTunes Store just like the AppleTV does...

 

yeh it does... but with wires connected to iphone.. i used apple tv as the middle source to stream videos off iphone wiresly to apple tv than apple tv sends them to the nav2go. it was bunch of adapters and converters so i ended up not doing it...
i had the apple tv connected to nav2go through hdmi to av converter. with dc to ac converter to power up the apple tv. I also had mini N/G wireless router installed in the trunk which tied the apple tv and iphone together... only way you tube will work and all the features on apple tv if I get some sort of internet mobile card that plugs into wireless router to have internet anywhere (such as Clear or AT&T card)

 

damn vlad those are some thick a$$ spacers! looks good are you still going to rub even after rolling? fronts look like they will no matter what?

 

fronts dont rub at all when driving, only when turned all the way than it rubs a lil... rears rub slightly so Im sure after rolling them the tires will clear

 

very cool .... thats a serious chunk of aluminum

 

Installing coilovers today



Before on TEIN S-Tech Springs...


After on BC Racing BC Series Coilovers... stay tuned

 

Ebelp (and everyone else).....

In the lower right hand corner of each post, the middle icon is a multi-quote button. It allows you to respond to more than one person in a single reply/posting.

Please give it a try.

 

Just got it tinted today . 15% in the back, 35% front

 

looks nice! how much did it cost? and did they install felt/moleskin?

 

Yeah, I'm aware of it. Just got lazy.

 

Thanks man. $220 done at my place which is a huge + for me . No felt or moleskin was used. This guy has been tinting windows for more than 20 years and came highly recommended on another forum. I'll PM ya his contact info

 

Dibs on the S tech springs. How much?

 

Ya know long as I been around here I always wondered how to
Do that!

Thanks!

 

Lookin good!! Wdp FTW!

 

vladkarnafel, those spacer look great. Not that your TL didn't look good before but now it's like DAMN!

LIQUID0401, I've already called dibs on them if they fall to me (a local person has expressed interest).

Anakalia, awesome! Can't wait to see pix

cappy_0521, tint looks good.

TGIF