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#182 ·
^^ I'll give you the benefit of the doubt cause there's a lot of posts in this thread but the info you seek is in here if you did a little reading.

17x9 wheel, +22 offset and a 215/40R17 tire. The "tilt" you refer to is achieved using two SPC shims stacked on each wheel to get -3 degrees of camber. I believe I'm correct, if not someone please correct me.
 
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Some of you might appreciate this. When I first bought my car I went and took some pictures of it for the purpose of photoshopping it to better visualize the end goal. Here is what I came up with back then.

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I still have a ways to go on the front end (headlights, grill, etc.) but it's coming together. It kind of sucks looking back at this picture now because, as you can plainly see, I was planning on going lower than I currently am. It's too bad the driveway is the only thing preventing me from going lower...
 
#186 ·
I was just thinking about that this morning. Since I need to readdress my front end this weekend anyway, I'm going to see if I can tuck the fronts even more and just throw one of those small wooden boards on the curb when I pull in. You already have to get out, open the side door, then the garage door and get back in anyway. One more step can't hurt.

First, need to figure out why this damn spring in the front is popping under tension when turning.
 
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_AnGeL_ said:
Have you seen the grill I have on my hatch? It's pretty much what you shopped in that pic. Should look it up man.
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The grill in the pic is actually the stock grill with the Kia "beak" shape, just no emblem. But I have considered the one you have. You're running this one correct?
 
#190 ·
That one being $100 makes all the $200-300 ones seem kinda dumb. It's definitely the cleanest looking one. If only it had thicker mesh. I bought some decently thick honeycomb mesh, fiber glass and bondo materials before that $100 grill came out otherwise I probably would have picked it up.
 
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hiernonymus said:
I'm going to see if I can tuck the fronts even more and just throw one of those small wooden boards on the curb when I pull in.
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I'm thinking about getting rowdy with the fender roller this weekend and trying to get away with going lower. I too have considered just throwing a board down to pull in the garage. It's already quite the task, adding one more step to pulling in the garage isn't a big deal.

Scraping frame on the driveway curb is one thing. But you're not really low until you're scraping frame on the street.

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#192 ·
I'm considering the phone book method for the rear fenders as well. They're already flared out enough at the lip, I just can't get the higher part to separate enough from the body and not suck back in afterwards. Maybe insert phone books between the fender and tire and lower it down and let it sit overnight with some pressure on it.

Since I added preload it raised my front and looks atrocious. Got rid of the knocking, but still have spring tension popping sound. I really want to get everything solid before Winter so I can slap it back on come Spring and not have to dick with anything.
 
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^ Best way to eliminate any differences from side-to-side in the front is to pull both off and get them on the work bench. From there you can give a thorough inspection and we can use my micrometer to make sure the height/preload are identical on each unit.

It's supposed to rain all weekend anyway, might as well spend it in the lab.
 
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Got some recognition on another site, Farm of Minds. This time not for my Koup but for one of my photoshops. I posted it on my blog and then it just blew up. I've been finding my picture all over the place now.

Link: Farm Of Minds - Passion for the JDM scene - "What If?"

The funny thing is this is by no means my best work, just something I whipped up real quick as a concept of old-school JDM styling on a German platform.
 
#198 ·
Ive been looking around for the spc shims but cant find any, where did u get urs from if u dont mind me asking?


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how much do the shims effect offset? does the size of the shim (more offset) override the negative camber of the other way around?
 
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