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Old Feb 4, 2011 | 01:50 PM
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Thank goodness for garages
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Old Feb 4, 2011 | 02:47 PM
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 05:58 AM
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Nice two tone color scheme !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! khehehez
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 07:05 AM
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Just had the alloys refurbed in Anthracite:
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 07:53 AM
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Boy I am happy I at least have a car port for my 8.
Looks good manic!
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 07:57 AM
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Thanks!

I have a garage, but that's used for my Fiat Barchetta. However, it won't fit in right now as I have a spare RX-8 gearbox and a pair of rather flakey chrome alloys with snow tyres taking up a fair amount of space!
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 08:04 AM
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I'm in the same boat, I have an austin 1100 in my garage, that's why I built a car port next to it.
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Old Feb 6, 2011 | 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Manic Mechanic
Just had the alloys refurbed in Anthracite:

OOOooo.. Shiny !
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Old Feb 7, 2011 | 10:06 PM
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Hoss-05's car. It sits on factory shocks and Progress Springs but Stance Coilovers are going on this week

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Old Feb 7, 2011 | 10:19 PM
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What wheels offset/specs are these?
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Old Feb 7, 2011 | 10:22 PM
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What wheels offset/specs are these?

Forgestar F17's.

18" x 10" +42 running Nitto NT-05 265/35-18's
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Old Feb 8, 2011 | 09:30 AM
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cant wait to see what it looks like with stance coilovers on! i wanted to get them too but im deciding between stance gr+ or tanabe sustec pro fives
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Old Feb 8, 2011 | 11:05 AM
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Wow...Progress springs look stock height?
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Old Feb 8, 2011 | 11:23 AM
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Wow...Progress springs look stock height?
Yeah, pretty lame springs if you ask me. I have driven his car quite a bit and it handles just like a stock 8. We even preloaded them again just to be sure and even after a year they are still stock height and actually when sitting next to a stock 07' his car was actually a little higher.
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Old Feb 8, 2011 | 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by omgimazn
cant wait to see what it looks like with stance coilovers on! i wanted to get them too but im deciding between stance gr+ or tanabe sustec pro fives
Both are good choices, I have installed both and quality wise and fit and finish wise they are both top notch. But, you never know how any shock performs until you put it on a shock dyno. From what I have read most of the Japanese stuff is actually crap though. the dyno plots for each shock can be all over the place and not consistent. where as the Bilsteins, Koni's, etc. all are fairly consistent. But even then i have read where teams buy 12 differents shocks in order to find full sets that all dyno within the same ranges.

But if you never track and just want decent handling and lowering then shock dynos do not matter.

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Old Feb 9, 2011 | 12:10 PM
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My new SNOW wide body kit! Had like 5in of snow on one side of the car from the wind!






These are from a freezing rain storm that we had. The whole car was one big sheet of ice. It made the paint almost look matte


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Old Feb 9, 2011 | 03:55 PM
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Old Feb 9, 2011 | 04:10 PM
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ugh... i sit and look at my cracked bumper and just think it would be a waste to get a new oem bumper, i want mazdaspeed but its nearly impossible to find one even remotely cheap these days :/
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Old Feb 9, 2011 | 07:30 PM
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My car, filthy, salty and a cat pissed on the bumper.
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Old Feb 9, 2011 | 09:17 PM
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Nice pic, like the trunk
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Old Feb 10, 2011 | 12:32 AM
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Had a few pictures taken since the hks exhaust install.



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Old Feb 10, 2011 | 12:54 AM
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Nice pic ,,ur rims will look so much better without the red lug nuts
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Old Feb 10, 2011 | 03:45 AM
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Chad D. great shot !!
what trunk is that?
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Old Feb 10, 2011 | 04:18 AM
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My trunk is made by Mastergrade.
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Old Feb 10, 2011 | 05:51 AM
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Love my RAYS red lugs. Perfect match.
Looking good Wind. I'd love to find a location like that to shoot in.
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