ok so I put some Tenzo springs on a club member's xA the other week, everything went well, he is super happy, then I sold him my old 002s still super happy. Now with the smaller tires on the wheels the rear has a huge gap in it. What is the best way to fix this?
no big stereo in the back cause he is a drummer and has to carry stuff in the back.

he is fine with the way it looks, but I can't let him roll like that.

any ideas?

 

Those small azzed tires gotta go. He needs like 195/60/15s to fill in the gap.
That drop would look much better with the bigger tires. Why does it look so raked?

 

Yea, those small tires are killing it.
What's the drop supposed to be on the Tenzos?

Unfortunately, the xA has significantly more rear fendergap initially than the xB does. DF210s are pretty much the only springs to put on the xA.

 

wow looks like a lift kit

 

more then likely the tires are not going anywhere anytime soon, the tires that are on there, have plenty of tread on them and I also gave him two spare tires that I had as well. we are trying to find a solution with the tires that are on there.
He did tell me that he can start carrying his drums in a diff car for gigs, so I heavy sub set up in the back is a possibility now.

I have no idea what the drop on the springs are.
even when he had the stock tires on the front sat lower then the front.

what about the shocks? what about shorter ones?

 

umm goth you know how to cut springs

 

I was actually thinking of that, a few of the coils on the bottom are fully compressed. would be easy to do.

 

Shock length has no effect on rear ride height. They bear zero load.
Instead of messing with his suspension someone needs to just tell him to sell those weenie little tires and get the right sized ones. It will solve 2 problems I can see.
1. ugly wheel gap
2. crappy ride
He can get 4 of the right sized tires for 200 - 250
If you go cutting springs it might lead to safety issues for him. Plus he really doesn't need the poor xA scraping the ground. I bet he wants to maintain some type of ride quality and won't want to constantly worry about his springs shifting and falling out.
I really can't believe he bought that wheel/tire setup. He would have been way farther ahead just buying the wheels.

 

he says he loves the way it rides and handles now.
maybe one day he will get bigger tires, but the tires were a package deal with the wheels.
he wants to be low, and eventually on air, so if he got taller tires now, he would have to get new tires again when he does air,

He wants to do a sub box in the back, so that should help it, cause when he had the stock wheels loaded up in the back it sat good and was level.

I was just joking about cutting his springs by the way.

 

I thought we both were

 

 

I think the rake looks mean.....

 

looks good with a rake. but once the subs go in, it will definitely sit down nicely in te rear.

 

 

LOL!!! but that son't even fix the problem. Yes fatter tires and honestly I would get those Tenzo's off that car. Tanabe DF210's are ALLOT lower and in fact a better ride then they Tenzo's. Believe me I know.

 

thats the eventual plan, he just has to save up the money.
nothing looks better then a bagged xA