Belated Happy Birthday D!

 

I'll be in San Jose/ Milpitas till Monday. I haven't driven up North before in my car, roads okay? I won't have to worry about crackin my oil pain right?

 

^ Just like any where else.

Some roads are worse than others.

 

yea, it just depends on where you drive

 

You should be fine bro. I'll be driving back up to norcal on thursday! I dont know if you are lower than me or not, but I've never had any problems at SJ or milpitas.. MAYBE downtown San Jose, that is if you are planning on going there.

 

Thanks for the bday wishes everyone!

 

^ Did you do any thing special for your B-Day?

 

oh dam...a lot of you from the Bay! Nice.

 

wtfffffffff

 

More of that bB

 

Not really. Hung out with some coworkers the night before. Downtown Campbell.. Pretty fun. Just chilled with the family on Friday. Steaks and Modelo's!!

 

Nice. Well good food and good company is not a bad way to go.

One of my co-workers just told me there's an all night happy hour spot in the city that has $1 Modelo's!

 

Yeah...I bottomed out a couple times on the way up on the 5, bottomed out a bit around here in SJ too...it's not too bad.

 

damn...check out that inner tire wear

 

Hey...

I'm trying to pick up a set of wheels from a local Acurazine Member, Mugen RL.

Can I re-drill his wheels from 5x120 to 5x114.3?

The original specs are 19x8.5 Linea Corse LeMans Hyper Silver w/ Pol. Lip (5x120 +35)

I can't run an adapter because that would make those wheels like +10.

Too aggressive for the CL.

 

instead of redrilling...which doesnt make sense to redrill a rim...just get these

http://www.wheeldude.com/catalog/pro...oducts_id=5864

 

I wouldn't redrill them.
So many nice rims for sale, just be patient. You will find a set you
really like at the right price.

 

just bUy my wheels foo

 

Yeah I know. It was good price on a local deal. Probably just be patient now and save up.

Yeah I guess I just got excited.

I don't think it's the right style for what I'm going for.

 

Any body know any thing about SPC camber kits?

Good/bad?

 

they give you negative camber? lol

 

Yeah...makes sense.

I just keep hearing about Ingalls so I don't hear much of the SPC kits.

I'm sure they're good quality.

I think they fabricate the kits for Eibach and Eibach re-brands the hardware.

 

I think I may be getting rid of my TL... The gas mileage is hella bad 99 miles on a half a tank wtf! plus having hella problems with it I just want to take the whole car apart and rebuild everything

 

i get 220 miles a tank...

its the same as a suburban...5.7L v8...12mpg

 

I usually get 250-260 from full to empty with the light on I shuld just buy another bike and call it a day

 

I had the Ingalls front and rear on my CL-S. I dont remember SPC having
a kit when I bought mine. The rears were two per side, one for camber, one
for toe. Very well made. Here are a couple of pix of them on my car:





I have the SPC camber kit for the E. It is very well made as well. And yes
Eibach takes the SPC kits and puts their name on them. Most of the time
the Eibach kits are cheaper than the SPC ones.

 

I think maybe I might have to go with the Ingalls Full Control Arms with Ball joints.

From what I read, might not have enough clearance and might knock when I hit a dip.

Shit's complicated to me...

I just don't know enough about this shit to know WTF I'm doing or what's the right setup or not for me.

Somebody was selling SPC front/rear camber kits [brand new] for $400 shipped.

But then Marcus, Heeltoe, has an article on his website stating that the kits like SPC...

"Because aftermarket ball-joint boots are of inferior material, and are subjected to altered range of motion (when installed on a lowered car), the boots tend to become brittle and they brake after a while."

I just don't know what's okay to get away with and what's not.

 

if you're low enough, even the ingalls control arm kit will hit your shock tower, mine does.

if it werent for my front tires rubbing, i wouldnt have even bought a camber kit for the front. but since i needed MORE camber and couldnt go any lower, i had no choice. but if i ever get new coilovers that go lower, im putting my stock control arm back on and gonna drop it till the camber is where i want.

 

Hmm...great...even more confusion!

 

When i lowered my car i went and bought ingalls front and rear camber kits.

i installed the rear but never installed the front, because i went the cheaper route and got the ball joint front camber kit. But if you get the control arm/ball joint you can adjust it alot more then just the ball joint.

Right now i dont need the front camber kit, but im going to lower my car more so i will need a better camber kit. So im going to save up for the Full Control arm/ball joint.

So if you want just the ball joint i have the it from ingalls, its brand new never opened. still in the packaging. its for a 01 tl so i think it should still fit. not fully sure tho

 

I ended up only purchasing the Skunk2 front camber kit since my rear camber isn't all that bad considering I never had my car slammed. I'm not really a fan of riding too low anymore, it's just not fun when commuting on the crappy sections of highway.

 

Yeah thanks for the offer but I think I'm gonna go for the Ingalls full arms with ball joints because it provides the most clearance.

It's definitely a pain in the ass.

Not sure how I'll be sitting when I change wheels.

 

They're excellent kits, but back in the day (2002 - 2005) the rubber boots started to crack open. But they replaced the rubber boots with red polyurethane ones that don't crack anymore.

If you have an old kit and the rubber boots start to break, call up SPC and they'll send you some new rubber boots for free.

They sent me new ones really fast when I called and asked for some.

SPC has great customer service and I like them.

I would get the SPC rear control arms. I'm not a fan of the front ball joint ones because they hit the chassis if you're really dumped.

Get a full control arm for the fronts. Give you more clearance. I don' t know if SPC ones one, but I know Ingalls does for your CL though.

 

^ That's really good to know. Thanks for sharing that info.

 

This is what I'm looking at this one for the rears.

http://www.spcalignment.com/PROD_DIR...md2=67090&cmd3=

 

Those are the exact same ones that I still have on my 02 Accord V6.

Edit* from previous post. I meant that SPC will send you some *polyurethane* replacement boots. It's not rubber boots anymore.

 

Took my TL to a rave in SJ and someone keyed my car and im so pissed at the moment..deep scratches on my hood, fender, driver door, rear door, and by the rear blinkers.. they're not one straight key but it's about the 6 inches each.. i can buff the one on the driver door out but the others are pretty deep....sigh...IUBQWIUHER WE[ ODFIHN[938PCHY8OQWB9P

 

well it was a rave.. in SJ that sucks though hopefully u get that tooken care of

 

Noah if u still looking for Ingalls theres a set on v6peeeee for 120 obo plus ship

 

Oh fawk man, that's really fawking lame. Sorry bro.

Yeah I had PM'd the guy already but thanks for letting me know.