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Does this not look shyte to your eye though?

4x4 might be a bit of an exaggeration, as is the old "family of immigrants living in your arches" but any visible gap at all will severely detract from the look of the car. I can only use my car as an example - this: looks a lot better than this: and the only difference is the arch gaps.

With all due respect, if you arent prepared/arent able to lower the car you may as well save your money on the kit and wheels, it will just look half arsed otherwise 3 days after moving into my house we had the driveway relaid so we could get the cars up it, this was considerably preferable to making them look like they were on stilts Seriously though, you might not think it will make a lot of difference but it really, really, does particularly when a car is kitted and wheeled

Might be worth seeing if you can get a bit knocked off AEM if you advertise it on your car too ......

Errr .......... I dont think you are right mate. Ive regularly dropped pressures in snow for increased grip, although narrow tyres are defintiely better raising them isnt going to make the tyre any narrower, it will just be harder. I remember getting totally stuck in one of my old Deltas, dropped pressure as much as I dared and it was like a different car, the snow that had stopped me now wasnt an issue at all. Id add that the construction of an MPSS means it wont get much more of a footprint, but anything is better than nothing

Mate, theres no point spending thousands on a sweet bodykit and wheels and then running 4x4 ride height, it will look pants. My car is lowwww, but its still driveable 99% of places

The man speaks truth, 8.5 ET15 is a bit weak IMO as well. Do they not make a 9 ET15 or something - frankly if I was in your shoes Id go a little too big and be prepared to have arch work if you need it, ill fitting rims will make everything look crap. You can also ask the vendor of the rims to measure the backspacing to see if you will clear brakes. You will 100% have to lower the car or again, it will just look half arsed, it would be a very good idea to get everything (arches if required, suspension, wheel fitment, kit) done at the same time .....

AEM is still a bit new isnt it, I dont know anyone who has used it anyway. Syvecs wil be easier to get mapped which is something to bear in mind as well

Based outside of Cambridge, might well try E36 zone, cheers for the heads up

Not an M6, 1M, M635CSi, CSL, 850i then? Incredible work finding a manual, now get the exhaust cut off at the manifold and make proper V8 noises.

Standard discs are pretty good TBF, and pads dont tend to come up secondhand very often. Id have a word with Clark Motorsport myself, they know what they are on about and can give you some advice

I originally bought this off a mate in my village a few years ago, he had owned it from new – after rocking round for a bit I sold it onto my mate Jason, who then sold it to another mate Jules, and when he was looking to shift it last year I thought Id buy it back as a winter daily as I know it’s a solid car and a proper laugh. Its done 140K, but had a replacement engine fitted at 90K which is as smooth as anything Ive driven and pulls hard right to redline, as you can see its also got a full AC Schnitzer body kit (including lip, rear spoiler and mirrors) and Schnitzer wheels too, running low as it does it looks pretty awesome. Good things: M50 manifold conversion Coilovers Welded diff Light grey leather in decent nick New genuine BMW Angel Eyes Clutch delay valve removed On its ass Less good things: Paint isn’t great, the bonnet has a big scratch on it as well Three of the arches are rusting, the rears are pretty bad At the moment only has MoT till end of Jan (likely to change) Handbrake is rubbish Me, Jules and Jason all did bits to it so it’s a pretty decent 328i now, and the fact that I bought it back again should tell you something too – Id keep it for shits n giggles but I just don’t have the space. Ill say £1150 as it stands, if I get MoT then it will be a bit more but not much – it’s a very good drift car which is actually pretty quick and makes a perfect daily drifter that stands out a bit from the usual ratty looking E36’s.

Thats a 18 front and 19 rear, its actually difficult to notice due to the design of the wheels (they are different from each other) Good setup but pricey on the rears if you like going sideways ......

I dont think it does, bear in mind Ive got a 328 and an MR2 sitting on my drive and Ive owed and driven MX5's on track. The BMW may be faster but its not as much fun, hell its not as much fun as a 200SX (Ive had a few of them too) - at the end of the day its an executive express where the others are sportscars. The MR2, and to a lesser extent the 5 are a hoot, particularly with the roof down We have recently been using Opentrack and cant complain at all - well run, no dicks, some amazing cars (last time out at Spa there was a 991 RSR, 458, MP4 and some kind of Group C Peugeout Sportscar )

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?573880-TOTB-Handling-class-winning-S13-with-5-8ltr-V8-breaking-or-for-sale-as-whole&highlight= That better?

OK, its been fun but final word from me: I think there is a Hot Rod "type" and a Hot Rod "spirit" and to be a true Rod IMO you need both. The type is generally a sit up and beg but can be anything that started off cheap but has been modified for speed and nothing else. The spirit is doing it on the cheap, losing weight where possible (its free!) and using ingenuity and skills rather than wallet. I still think theres a fine line between a Hot Rod and a track car (the track car would be more of an all rounder for me) but its a blurred one, no doubt. Chip Foose cars have the type but not the spirit, something like that S13 would have the spirit (if it was using S/H parts rather than top bollocks stuff) and arguably fits the "type" as well, a cheap old car made to go fast. However, that grey V8 S13 I posted is the epitome of modern Rodding for me, and if you dont agree I dont care

Its hardly the "spirit" though, youve said that yourself. And its all about the "spirit", right Steve?

Totally missing the point, the Hachi is a perfect example of a Hot Rod - home built with one purpose in mind, the GT86's are racecars built with endless chequebooks so arent.

Now youre out of your depth, remember who you are speaking to As per my previous post, that car has trick suspension, trick brakes, brand new recaros and thats only the bits I could be arsed to watch, its got a better spec than 90% of the S13's in the UK. On the other hand, if you want a real "modern hot rod" .......... http://www.sxoc.com/...hole&highlight=, this also won the RWD class at TOTB and cost a lot less than £4K to build. Which is what you can buy it for. No fancy paint or bodywork, a bit tatty looking but lots of hard work on cold driveways, lots of work sourcing cheap parts and lots of ingenuity lead to a very fast car for about what your yank mates would have paid for their engine and gearbox.

Errrr, there? And seeing as Im beating on the 240, brand new Brembos, KW Clubsports and LS3 swaps are not "on the cheap" - Clubsports are £1500 alone, you can buy a whole S13 for that! I struggle to think of many S13 owners in the UK that have a spec anything like that and its not just because LS3's are cheap in the states. Skyline brakes, secondhand HSD's and an SR20 on an S13 and youre a lot closer to "the spirit" IMO, all these guys are doing is dropping sweet parts on a JDM classic.

The S13 has plenty of money thrown at tyres, suspension, ricockulous engine, brakes, wide fenders and pimping rims. Thats a track car, not a homebrew straightliner - if thats modern Hot Rodding then every single 200SX in the country is a "Hot Rod", you might agree with that, I dont. Likewise, an LS3 mated to a T56 is one of the most expensive engine swaps you can do as well, you could get the same power out of an SR20 and keep the standard gearbox. To make the S13 into a Hot Rod Id have gone SR20/SBC, massive turbo and intercooler, weld the diff, chop the arches, remove all interior, spaceframe the front end and lexan the rear window then smash it up a drag strip and then figure out how to make it even faster. Id do all the work myself and I bet the whole thing would cost less than an LS3. So the Foose megabuck chequebook cars arent Hot Rods then? Once again:

Not once in 4 pages have you actually said what YOU think a Hot Rod is, yet youve told everyone else they dont know. You clearly contradicted yourself in posts #56 and #69 but youre telling me to make my mind up and you STILL havent told us whether you consider Ian and Wassos cars to be Hot Rods, thats 4 times now. I find it rather ironic that you have started a thread about Hot Rods, have told anyone sticking a 2p in that they dont know what they are on about and still havent actually offered any definition yourself. I think its called trolling, isnt it? For me the spirit of Rodding is as Ive said throughout, fast, cheap and light, but youd be a fool if you dont accept a Foose car as a Rod either. It also says a lot that the major drag authority in the world is the National Hot Rod Association, and that if you talk about Hot Rods to anyone in UK stock racing they think of this: So come on Steve, seeing as youre doing most of the arguing, what make a Hot Rod for YOU? What point exactly are you trying to make here?

Having had mine sideways in excess of 100mph in 5th on more than one occasion, trust me, predictable doesnt mean its not scary Predictable for me just means that when it gets out of shape, you get plenty of notice of it happening and you are going to get it back again

Post #69 ........... Post #56 ........... Quite. Unless you are counting anything modified with a sit up and beg body as a "Hot Rod" for me they dont qualify' date=' they are chequebook showcars that will probably never see a drag strip. If you are trying to tell me these cars [b']are[/b] "Hot Rods", along with the 240SX, the 240Z and that Jeep that has clearly had 1000's spent on it then when not just classify everything with a cherry bomb and an air filter as a rod too? So what about Ian and Wassos cars then, or are you deliberately avoiding the question because you arent even sure what case you are trying to make now?

Im with this - its more planted at the back than many a RWD car (Ive got a 200SX, E36 and E82 BMW's atm and they all break away much more easily) and when it does go youve got time to roll a ciggy and have a read of the paper before you have to do anything about it. Not sure about country vicar TBH, decent tyres and alignment might be worth looking into if its that bad. Show it a bit of respect in the wet, dont turn TC off until you are totally comfortable with it and youll be fine