PurePontiacKid

lol that may be in Canada, but not here, cops only pull you over if you have a Honda with VTEC stickers and make you pop your hood and check for an illegal motor swap lol

acleveland38

there is no worries on the east side of the us where i live we dont even get inspected. At all.

acleveland38

so how did those shortened knuckles work? and did you shorted your strut bodies? i was thinking about doing that cause i got to figure out how to get mine lower again due to me now having a ka24e in there vs the weight of the l28et. the front sits monster truck style lol

PurePontiacKid

yea my struts are sectioned, and I'm not going to use those shortened knuckles lol



u mad

NismoPick

Just bend those up with a hammer... then you have more ground clearance.

PurePontiacKid

my frame rails?

snwbrderphat540

dude, those pop rivets? if so, why? lol. any why didn't you use the knuckles that everyone was all in a huff over.

And yeah I think he meant the rails, cause they crush pretty easy in that section.

NismoPick

Those frame rails were freaking weak straight outta the factory... rivets probably don't help much.

Fast240Z

I like how retarded your car is. Good job on creativity.

PurePontiacKid

rivets are for the skid plates, dogs

snwbrderphat540

Yeah that's what I thought I was seeing, but I woulda went a different route attaching those than drilling and pop riveting, that is if I were to ever lower a car so far that the rails were hitting the street....

I like low, just functional low, perfect control arm geometry low with not much more than -1 degree camber and proper offset wheels and non stretched tires so that there is a proper flush look. Everything functional but meeting good tastes. To each his own I guess... It is just an S130 after all lol

acleveland38

nah not mad i gotta welder myself lol

PurePontiacKid

I figured the rivets would be the best route so just incase I wore through the plates, I could replace them super easy.

my car functions just fine at this height, however I'm in the process of making plans to make her handle even better, while still retaining my ride height. lol flush without stretched tires. that's dumb.

snwbrderphat540

Dumb? ummm no that's function my friend. Dumb is stretching tires causing uneccessary stress on the sidewalls as well as eliminating sidewall flex entirely and limiting the contact patch of the tire with BOTH reduce traction. I'm not about trying to become the next DK lolz, I'm about raping corners and leaving them as fast as possible. No hate, you have your tastes for form, I have my tastes for function, but also trying to balance in the form. And I won't get on your case unless you do something that honestly screams retard, so far you haven't pushed that yet... though... you sure like to live close to that boundary lol.

PurePontiacKid

no saying you're going to be flush without stretching tires is dumb, that's not flush, that's just somewhat close to the fender.

snwbrderphat540

When you have to flare the fenders, or pull or roll them, just to barely clear its flush. "hella flush" bs is when you try to stick the rim of the wheel past the fender and stretch the tire to clear. Plus, almost no tire is going to be a straight vertical wall from the tread patch down to the rim, there will be either a slight bulge or an ever so slight stretch, obviously you don't want a bulge. so it's achievable. do I have to find pictures or draw a diagram?

PurePontiacKid

no, it's just stupid when people who are all "I'm all functional bro, but I like my 295's on my 8's to be all flush with the fender"

snwbrderphat540

yes... 295's on 8's... that's what we are so many people are alllllll about... ESPECIALLY ME.

It's about fitting the largest wheel (in width and a 16-17 inch diameter max, for a S30, it differs on certain cars obviously) and then fits a proper tire on it.

See the rear wheel on this? notice a tire that is sized right for the wheel? notice the rim of the wheel itself is straight inline with the flare? that's flush. For me, that's how things are done correct, however that is an opinion. Unless you are building a legitimate racecar then it's more of a fact... any who




and this is your onsided opinion. notice again the word used... opinion.

PurePontiacKid

that's cool, you're stating my opinion for me.

even though that Miater isn't flush.

snwbrderphat540

oh it isnt? but it has stretch and the tires touch the fenders that have been cut, the wheels stick out past them! pretty sure that's what you have been slowly describing little by little these past few posts.

I'm sorry man I gotta ask, and I'm not asking this to be a dick, or in any detrimental way, I'm just honestly concerned for you at this point, to you have antisocial personality disorder? because you really express a lot of the symptoms for it buddy.

PurePontiacKid

it's not "flush" because it has poke, flush is like this



and nah bro, I only seem that way on this forum because idgaf.

NismoPick

and hide y0' husban!

So what's the latest on the slammed 280zx? You ever going to install bigger brakes?

PurePontiacKid

I doubt it, I can already lock my tires up with stock brakes, and I don't plan on ever going bigger on the tire size. lol

I think the rear lowered itself a little bit moar which is cool.

got some JDM amberlamps today gonna polish those up and put em on soonish

still making plans as far as what I want to do next haha

NismoPick

I can lock up the brakes on my Geo too...

I want a brake setup that will hold up to some good heat on the track but there's very little info on the 280zx's. I found one debate thread on ZCar a while back, and the final conclusion was "just buy good brake pads". der...

I would prefer not to spend $2k-$3k for an entire OUTLAW kit... I buy BMW's for less than that.

PurePontiacKid

honestly, if I were to do it, I'd convert to S13 front knuckles, space the ball joints out an inch or inch and a half, make some tie rods using heim ends (REALLY not that hard at all) and do what all the S13 guys do (brake upgrades and coilovers).

only reason I DIDN'T go that route is because I wasn't sure if I'd be able to go as low as I am currently.