I put my "new" wheels on for a little test fit. The are BBS Style 5's. I still need to restore the wheels, lower the coilovers, roll the fender lips, buy new tires, and the BBS red/gold center caps I want are on back order for a month.
I have center caps for the wheels but they have bmw roundels on them so I didn't put them on with the wheels
I lowered my coilovers today. I apologize for the shitty phone pics
The rear was dropped to the lowest position on the bc's
I lowered the fronts up to about the width of 2 bc coilover adjuster tools, so I could probably go approximately 5-10 mm lower. I am rubbing fairly bad when turning so I am going to raise the car about about 2 to 4 mm tomorrow. Once I get new tires on my style 5's I should be clearing at the lowest setting on my coilovers atleast I hope so. Snow tires are tall to me
Here are some more pics of the low setting. I think it looks pretty good and could only look better with the bbs's
Damn dude you got some whack taste in wheels. Dis what happens when 04s are under 10k and can be bought by 16 year old thug wannabes trying to impress 15 year old girls.
Hmm my car was purchased back in 2009 when it was still 15k... And I am nearly 20 years old and am not trying to impress anyone. I simply want to make the car the way I like it. I grew up in a household with lowered track Porsches and I guess I just want to immolate the slammed stance those cars had in my eyes.
I am a wheel snob and won't run cheap POS replica wheels so I have to opt for 17" LEGITIMATE BBS wheels, sorry if being safe going down the road is a bad thing.
I'm going to run the widest tire I can fit beneath the fender but if a 205 is the widest then that's what I will end up with. I just can't tell what that width will be quite yet. I will make it so it won't rub under normal driving conditions. The beauty of coilovers
Good to see you're going with the "form over function" mindset on a 4000lb rwd performance car. My mom's Honda minivan has winder tires than yours :chrisls1:
I need to restore them and get new tires. And this set of stockers have snow tires so with it still being winter I am going to keep these on until my winter quarter is over at school. Sorry for that I meant emulate my bad.
I was just looking at the rear end just a little while ago and if I keep the camber the way it is I will have no problem clearing really anything once I roll the fender lips I have about 10mm between the tire and the lip at the moment and the lips everyone knows are fairly large. I may just use the 245/45/17 dunlop direzza summer tires I already have on my other set of stockers. My front end I am not quite sure what will clear yet.
Yeah hopefully. I have been talking a little bit with with the owner of this car on my build log on stance nation... OMG stancenation......:bomb:
Here's a front view of his car.
My car should poke 30mm less in the rear and 10-15mm less in the front which will probably be alot more function especially with having 17" wheels instead of 18" wheels.
thanks neither can I. The rear does need more poke to be flush. but until I can afford to have the rears widened I'm going to keep it this way so I can still have a respectable tire width. I am thinking probably 245/40/17 rears and 215/40/17 or 205/40/17 fronts I cant really decide.
Funny that you say that. Today at the Water by The Bridge car show (a mostly euro show) and I saw a black mk4 Jetta with 100% polished BBS RS wheels and air ride. It got me thinking about it. The silver is a similar color to stock qsm so I'm going to atleast keep them silver for a little while. I also saw some unique colors and was also thinking about trying to color match the wheels to the red interior but who knows
Last night I was too tired to write up a full update post so I'll do it now. I test fit the wheels on wood blocks and lowered the car a little yesterday.
After seeing tons of slammed euro's today with destroyed paint I want to less lol. And with possibly going to air in mind I think I can tuck a lot harder with the current dimensions... I'll figure it out.