well you succeeded on the looking fresh front! do the swap, besides the wiring and fueling headaches you won't regret it but then I guess the quest for more and more power will probably begin so if moneys available go stand alone from the get go.

cheers pontiackid. and ma7daPow3r those are some wicked shots and some wicked real purdy wheels. light?

 

Would a x9 +35 rpf1 up front rub on the inside (on coils etc) From what I've been reading x9 +22 will need a pull and I really don't want to pull my fenders. I don't mind rolling. The plan is 17x9 +35 infront and x9 +22 in the rear to be basically flush.

Also, Ma7daPOW3R, your car is ******* beautiful. I'm not a fan of the wheels, but the body and everything is perfect.

 

I would imagine no from an offset calculator I just used comparing my wheels to those specs. Mine were border line rubbing and those would have 19mm less inner clearance.but if I'm wrong someone jump in.

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Well yours are 7.5 +35 and with the 25mm spacer that would be a 7.5 +10 and from the offset calculator that says 44mm LESS inner clearance, aha.

EDIT: And I just felt like an idiot. You're talking about BEFORE your had spacers. -.-

Alright, so the x9 +22 would extend 7mm further out than your current set up. Your height is basically exactly what I'd like to have and I'd run a 215/45.

 

haha allgood. 7mm extra would be mint coz my rears sit in a little more than id prefer but there's some change available when I get a camber correction bar

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7mm extra up front and 4mm in the rear :P

 

Thanks man, I appreciate it. I got the wheels with brand new Nitto NT555s for $500 from some guy on craigslist that was parting out his sons car. It was a punishment thing and the wheels and tires had seen maybe 500 miles. I couldn't pass it up. Once I get it completely mechanically sound, then the wheel hunt shall commence!

 

damn man. and if theyre "real" rpf1's thats a gooooooood *** deal. nice find

 

Mine aren't rfp1s. They're Motegi SP7s.

 

i know yours arent lol. i must have misunderstood you. i thought you said you picked up a set off craigslist

 

ah...now rereading that it makes alot more sense now haha. my bad

 

No worries, good sir.

 

im liking the tii though. anything done under the hood?

 

Thank you, thank you. It's stockish.

Partial emissions delete (air pump & egr)
Racing Beat Rev TII turbo back exhaust
Apexi' twin chamber BOV
Grimmspeed MBC
Corksport turbo inlet pipe
Weapon R intake
Racing Beat sways and endlinks
Tein Flex coils
Stoptech crossdrilled & slotted rotors in the front
SS braided brake and clutch lines
OEM turbo/manifold/wg with stock porting

Nothing really big

 

simple and clean though...sounds good man

 

Thank you sir. My general modus operandi has been, "keep it original until it breaks, then uppgraayyed!". I plan on moving to an Rtek 2.1, upping all injectors to mild 720s. AEM boost controller, BNR stage something or other and to find a nice big top mount.

 

sounds nice man, you should put up a build thread if you havent already

 

Ben, you are correct sir.

A 9 +35 would no doubt be about 1/2" to 1" inside the coilover spring hahaha. there's no way they'd fit. you'd need at least a 15mm spacer.

and look, a lot of people confuse ROLLING with PULLING. ROLLING is when you very softly bend the lip of the fender upwards in order to fit a more aggresive, and wide wheel. It does not damage paint, the fender, etc. NOR does it tarnish the value of the car. (99% of people wouldn't notice anyways)

A PULL is when you FLARE the fender using a baseball bat, jack handle etc. THIS is bad for the metal, and is usually irreparable.

 

 

wow...all your dummy lights work and youve got the factory radio...im impressed

 

Yup, the previous owner painstaking restored almost everything to original over the course of a few years. I recently sent the radio to factoryradioservice.com to get an aux input installed. Everything on the inside is OEM and I love it. It's like I'm hopping into the 80s. I dislike when there's newfangled tech in old cars (at least in the cockpit).

 

this is true, other than my tach, stereo, and oil psi guages mines pretty stock. but i do want to try to find some brides for it. im kinda going for th time attack look

 

Nice. I like me some brides. There were some for sale here recently in MD on craigslist but with no rails. I should have picked them up though