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and these are the victoria british flares? good to see more pics like this, i wish more people had pics of thier flares before painting and blending, i cant seem to find a picutre of MSA's Imsa style and street style flares prior to painting and blending, heck, i cant find pictures of the MSA imsa style flare mounted and painted.

someone who runs big tires and wheels told me tha really the bigger you go, the more you are going to need a race type tire to really make ti work, he said he could use a small falken ziex (47 a piece) on his 15's, but now he runs big 17's and says that he moved to kuhmo ecsta v700 and it really helped. but he runs a 335 in the back and a 245 in the front.

supdog- you just answered my next question, i was going to buy the urethane coupler but i was gonna ask if anyone else had done it and what difference it had made.

gotta remember though too, a lot of the big wheel thing, i think has to do with style, I know a 15 would be cool, or a 16 with good tires, but it looks just plain badass to have 17x11's with 7inches of lip on the back under big flares and having big wheels up front. I guess you'd just have to be more careful with whats up front, i may drop to an 8 in the front and run a 235 or something.

show me your boobs !!! Edit: i mean... show me your car from the side. side shot side shot! and then I wanna hit it from the Back !! Edit2: i mean... take a picture of your rear.. i mean.. take a picture of the rear of the car.... im going to take my medication now...

damn you, i was going to bid on those, now everyone will see them and ill have to pay more... damn you hybridz.org member and ebay surfer...

because its assisted steering... less manual effort required by the driver. i was talking about the effect on the turning radius, rather how hard it would be to physically turn the wheel, with bigger tires it would be harder to turn the wheel

ya, i had worried about that too, i wouldnt think it would matter so much what was on the back as what is on the front... running 245s up front like some of these guys do... i was planning on doing it but im afraid ill need to do some more working out before i can take slow turns.I often wonder what its like to pull into a parking spot with no power steering on a wide bodied early z....

if i remember right, those are 15x8's on all four corners, it has it on the web site, but im too lazy to go look. it runs like -8 up front, and -16 offset out back. Link up that pdf file though, it would be cool to rumage through...

If you ask me, i dont care one bit, no amount of sympathy here, they're canadian.. they were probably doing something stupid and got themselves killed....

actually thats an s14, thats not a sr20, thats the ka24. You can also tell from the interior, the s15 has a much nicer looking one, looks like he put in 240 rear windows, not the back windshield but the side ones.

anybody got pics of Z's with large 5 spoke wheels, 17s are larger prefferable, something close to what Darius has on his, or something like a fiske fm5... more lip is good.. whatever anyone has would be helpful?

Did anybody else physically recoil and fall backwards out of thier chair when the picture popped up? Yah, thats "unique" alright.. just like the kids at the special table in my lunch class in high school..

I cant host pics, Mike, ill just e-mail some cool pics i have on my computer, i dont have digital photos of a lot of the cars posted above, ill send what i have, i found some pics of some other cars of guys i know ill send too... Whats your e-mail?

friends cars... hybridz... 1995 m3- 1jzgte 1994 rx7- ls1 1989 rx7- sr20det ?? Starion - Blown ls1 and 6spd 197? 510 - turbo ka24de 1990 Supra- Twin turbo 1uzfe And there is a bmw m3 drag car in australia with a twin turbo 4rotor.. that was sweet, ill see if i can find pics.. its hot pink..

im glad your going through with that, to be honest i figured it would end up being something you would have never had the time to actually do, i cant wait to see how it performs when done, seems like a lot of fun, are you going to mod it at all before you drop it in or are you going to get it to work stock first then mod? You can be a member of jackstand racing if you want... or you can join my rival team.. "ivegotawierdengineswapithoughtwouldbecoolbutnowicantmakeitwork Racing" AKA. " I wish this would work motorsports"

ok, see, that makes sense to me, thats what i would have figured if i had to take a guess, i just didnt know if there were something a bit more mathematical to it. im sure ti could be expressed in physics with a lot of equations, i just didnt know if there were anything to it other than the give of the sidewall. ok, in that case ill be running 285/45/ kuhmo mx's. So heres my other question, which i think i put in another forum, as far as the backspacing on the wheel goes, would me running 4 inches of backspace put enough extra stress on the bearings to cause the bearing to fail Very quickly, i know it will stress it a bit more, but i didnt know if the effect would be very bad or just slightly worse than stock. I saw Dan is using a 4.5 on his 10, i was thinking about using a 4.5 on my 11, but Ross C wants me to go with 5. Since im using 17s i dont need 8 inch springs or sectioned struts really. Which makes me worry that the bigger spring might hit the tire, so i had planned on the 4inches to be 1)safe and 2) it would come to the edge of a 280yz flare....

thats what i thought, and i had been trying to find them forever, but the 280yz is the closest thing anyone has anymore, so i figured id just go with that.... so does anyone know where you can get the old skool imsa flares?

This is cleve's car. I know its not optimum, but my Z is really a street car, its not made to be a race car. Form doesnt proceed function really on my car, however, when style can be added to a large degree with a minumum performance disadvantage.. ill take it, ill buy smaller lighter wheels for the track.

ok john, thats good to know, i have a lot of respect for you as im a young aspiring road racer and thats what you do, the only local guy i know with the knowledge is eddie radatz.. whos cars are always top 5 in scca champ. EP classes. But he is a purists and really wants nothing to do with my project, in fact everytime i need anything from him he alwasy tries to get me to stop what im doing. Out of curiousity though, why is it that the rim width should be equal to section width? is there some sort of math to it or are there disadvantages to having a stretched or bubbled sidewall or is it just one of those things i should just know?

I wonder if it will look really stretched or if it will look big, i knwo a 315 is perfect and a 335 fits as well... anyone give me any advantage or disadvantage, i was told once to use the smallest tire on the biggest rim possible, but ive ehar the biggest on the biggest rim is good, but someone told me today you should get in the middle.... is this all crap or is there a noticeable difference? will a 335 look/ have a wider patch than a 285?

I was just wondering what wheel sizes and offsets you guys were using with these flares, i didnt want to use them originally, but i spent some time with cleve's car today, the purple one from sez3, and i decided i really like them and they may be the way for me to go. I thought I saw someone using a 12inch wide wheel with them, and if they use 5 inch of back spacing thats 7inches that goes outward, which would be the same for my 17x11 with a 4 inch backspacing...

ok, i see what your saying, i misunderstood your reply. I realize that much though, but im not talking about for the track, im talking about for the road, the street. at a track ill be dropping down to 16's with v700's or hoosiers or maybe the a032r. Basically my question is.. from a stand point of streetability, style, and some functionality in spirited street driving(typically straighter, from a roll) is there any major issue other than uneven tire wear associated with running say a 315/35/17 ao32r on the rear with a 235/40/17 es100 on the front? Basically im thinking of doing what these guys do with DR's, except im not using dr's.. just stickier meaner tires. also note: ive been told by lots of people that a 285/40/17 will fit on an 11inch wide wheel.. has anyone actually seen this done? id be afraid it would stretch a good bit leavnig the sidewall kind of unstable...

Ive seen some people who have street cars use say a nitto 555r on the back and a regular 455 on the front. Usually i see people use drag radials on the rear with regular good tires on the front which makes sense to me for a more drag racing oriented car. Im wondering though, for someone who enjoys spirited drivign as well as occasional auto-xs or track days, would it make sense to do something similiar and run like a yokohama a032R on the rear with say a yoko es100 on the front? or is it better for street driving to have the same type of tire all the way around? I could see where the grip would be an issue on the track, but what about the road?