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Old Oct 29, 2012 | 07:29 AM
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I need to re-activate mine haha I haven't had one for a good while now.
Here's my number; 409-392-6828.

It'd be badass to meet with you guys one day.
Heck yeah, I drive A LOT. And I love it, so I'd drive out to Texas any day... Just need the money LOL
Old Oct 29, 2012 | 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by xAxAxAxA
O_O Dang! That looks SICK! How the hell does everyone get so low in the front on Racelands!!!!!! LOL

How'd you do your headlights? I need to get rid of that amber crap. I got amber LEDs anyways.
They look like Depo Headlights.
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Old Oct 29, 2012 | 06:07 PM
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vivid makes everything look better.

Could you maybe take some measurements for me?
I'm looking to get this front lip, but I don't know if my ride height will allow for the correct clearance. Could you measure the clearance from the ground with and without the lip? I'd sure appreciate it man.
Old Oct 29, 2012 | 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by xAxAxAxA
O_O Dang! That looks SICK! How the hell does everyone get so low in the front on Racelands!!!!!! LOL

How'd you do your headlights? I need to get rid of that amber crap. I got amber LEDs anyways.

And where are you in FL??
Haha thanks. Spun all the way down, no helpers up front. Wheel setup : Enkei Sesto +38 with 205/50R-16.

Headlights were done with one of the tech tutorials on this site. Baked 'em open and took out the corner pieces. Then I taped them off and painted them flat black and baked them back together.

Clearwater/Tampa area.
Old Oct 29, 2012 | 11:09 PM
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Haha thanks. Spun all the way down, no helpers up front. Wheel setup : Enkei Sesto +38 with 205/50R-16.

Headlights were done with one of the tech tutorials on this site. Baked 'em open and took out the corner pieces. Then I taped them off and painted them flat black and baked them back together.

Clearwater/Tampa area.
Ah, you have 50 profile tires. I only have 45... that's probably the slight difference. I'm trying to get them back off soon so I can toy with them to get lower...
Old Oct 30, 2012 | 12:14 AM
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interesting pathway's wheels and mine are only 0.2 inch difference in diameter, but my racelands aren't spun all the way down. My rears have settled a little more, I'll get a few pictures of how they are now. I don't get how you guys are driving with the fronts collars all the way down. That's what I did at first and I could hear the passenger side spring rattling. I concluded that the spring wasn't compressed enough due to how short it was, there wasn't enough force to pushing down to keep the spring seated.

Austin - I'll get back to you on the measurements. I took off my front lip and sides cause my rear got busted. At least now I can dive head on into dips and speed bumps ;]
Old Oct 30, 2012 | 12:29 AM
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Mine rattled like crazy too at first but I just tightened down the bolt at the top of the strut more and it stopped.

Also when I installed the back I didn't put on the OEM metal cup piece on the rear shocks because some of the pics I saw it wasn't on there. BUT just one man hole cover later the rear shocks shot through the rear of my truck . Sounded like a friggin bomb went off.
Old Oct 30, 2012 | 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by itscurtsk
Austin - I'll get back to you on the measurements. I took off my front lip and sides cause my rear got busted. At least now I can dive head on into dips and speed bumps ;]
hahaha like a boss! thanks much, bro.
Old Oct 31, 2012 | 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by austin_
hahaha like a boss! thanks much, bro.
5.5 inches without
2.5 inches with.
Old Oct 31, 2012 | 03:27 PM
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You're my hero.

Originally Posted by itscurtsk
5.5 inches without
2.5 inches with.
Old Nov 2, 2012 | 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by austin_
You're my hero.
Buy a lot of them. I feel they won't be lasting long

My bump stops are like 1/2 of what they were. I don't have any problems with the spring compressing... it's fully compressed. Tried to raise it up the other day to see if that would compress it more and in turn make it lower, but no joy.

All the way down lol




And .2 inches lower would make me so much happier lol and put my tire just about on the fender.
Old Nov 2, 2012 | 06:28 AM
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Another thing. Can you guys post some side shots? My rear tires seem to have move forward somehow lol
Old Nov 2, 2012 | 07:00 AM
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i'll take a picture of what my strut look like and compare it to yours. when you raised up the collars, you did lower your car back down right? you won't see compression with the car jacked up.
Old Nov 2, 2012 | 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by xAxAxAxA
Another thing. Can you guys post some side shots? My rear tires seem to have move forward somehow lol
The way our suspension is set up makes it that way in the rear. The more you bring the car down, the more the rear axle moves forward in the wheel well, which makes getting good angles for photos of our cars impossible because from the wrong angle, it could look like you have a huge wheel gap haha. xB's have this problem as well, since it's essentially the same car.
Old Nov 3, 2012 | 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by itscurtsk
i'll take a picture of what my strut look like and compare it to yours. when you raised up the collars, you did lower your car back down right? you won't see compression with the car jacked up.
of course. I rode around the neighborhood with it like that to see how'd it feel.
Old Nov 3, 2012 | 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by xAxAxAxA
Another thing. Can you guys post some side shots? My rear tires seem to have move forward somehow lol
Originally Posted by austin_
The way our suspension is set up makes it that way in the rear. The more you bring the car down, the more the rear axle moves forward in the wheel well, which makes getting good angles for photos of our cars impossible because from the wrong angle, it could look like you have a huge wheel gap haha. xB's have this problem as well, since it's essentially the same car.
I always end up in the same parking lot after my cars been lowered so I have a bunch of side progression shots.

Old Nov 3, 2012 | 08:15 PM
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so with racelands, it can get bouncy at times. do raising the collars up make the ride more stiff? i turned mine up about an inch, i might just be imagining things but the ride feels a little better.

this picture was before. right now the collar is another inch higher.


the rears are actually lower, barely a gap, just how the picture came out.
Old Nov 6, 2012 | 04:21 AM
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I don't remember if I've asked this, but what are you guys opinions on these coilovers:

D2s or K-Sports?
Old Nov 6, 2012 | 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by xAxAxAxA
I don't remember if I've asked this, but what are you guys opinions on these coilovers:

D2s or K-Sports?
get it if money meant nothing to you.
Old Nov 8, 2012 | 08:32 AM
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<5% tint so you can't see up in my window!



Finally got the front two double tinted.



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