Re: Dave's Evo X Build
 

He has a fender roller that you can rent, but he won't do it for you.

If you're trying to avoid hitting the front fender then I would just stick with 275s unless you are POSITIVE that a certain tire and wheel combination will clear.

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Looks like these rims are 1410 shipped, not bad.

Way more expensive than just getting tires but whatever, time for suspension mods I guess.

I am ordering shortly, the 10.5's in gunmetal. Wish me luck.

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I am going 275's it seems to be a decent setup.

I will need to roll the rears though...where the hell do i get that done? I don't know how to roll them, lol.

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Going from the stock tire size to something 275 or 285mm wide you are going to be beside yourself with how much more grip the car will have.

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I rolled mine myself, they aren't perfect, I wasn't quite patient enough, the paint cracked a little in one or two places and the fender didn't roll in places that I was expecting it to. I know now what to do when I do it again, but I do not want to do it to someone's nice car.

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10.5's goddamn! Crazyness. 275 seems kinda narrow for that rim though, you can do 265's on a 9.5" wide rim (this is what the 8/9 guys do IIRC). All of the above tires are too rich for my blood, you can get a set of starspecs for a little over $100/tire in the 17" size but as soon as its an 18" they want closer to $200/tire.

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Yea i know, seems like a lot:( But everyone kept telling me...you have all that room with the X,use it damn it! So I just figured what the hell and got the 10.5's. I just ordered them a few mins ago:)

I will be getting the star specs to go with it 275/35's, that is what is pictured with buschurs ride up top there, i think it looks solid. I don't want to go any wider, too much weight already with this setup.

Man I feel like I am getting in over my head with this path, now I will have to get the Whiteline roll kit and a rear sway and some swift springs...ouch says my wallet.

EDIT: The star specs from what I have heard run a little wider anyway at the same size.

I was going to do tirerack for them, anyone think that is dumb?

Re: Dave's Evo X Build
 

285's fit just fine on 9.5" wide wheels as well. Not sure you needed to go to a 10.5", but having 10.5's on all four is pretty cool sounding. :P We did a set of 9.5 inchers on all four on a friends X.. looks very good.

Just for reference. We did 265 snow tires on a non lowered X. For the most part no rubbing, but on full lock, it rubs a bit. I think he is going to swap some 275's on them for the summer.

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^I never said you couldn't fit 275's on 9.5" wheels. It just seemed with the RPF1's, everyone said go with 10.5" since they will provide better grip with 275's!

Yea tires are expensive at 275's, but still no where near as bad as the stock tires. I will be saving like 80-90 bucks a tire still, lol.

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Yeah, was just throwing it out there that it can be done.. as Scheides had said 265's were possible on a 9.5..

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Nothing wrong with tirerack. Ricer pete on here works up at goodyear in maple grove, he can hook ya up on the mount/balance.

Don't be in a rush to do springs/sway/suspension stuff. At the most, just do a rear sway and then do the springs and other stuff later when you find the time/money. Taking your time and doing one mod at a time is fun :)

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True, however I think I need to roll the fenders to get them on their with stock suspension. i could be wrong though.

Maybe I will wait a bit, but I guess I only wanted to get my alignment done once, which is why I was debating this. And I don't want my new stuff to get uneven wear like my advans did. So iooono.

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I'm doing 275's on mine, but my rims are 18x9.5+28. It's the +15 and being so much wider than stock that causes the fitment pain.

I saw the 10.5's on Gates' car and I must say that it looked mean.

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You can't get aggressive enough with the camber at stock height. The fronts aren't gonna happen...you went really extreme on the rims and now you're going to have to go all the way. heh.

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I have seen my setup on someone else's car on stock suspension. Are you saying it won't fit?

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http://www.evoxforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27724

See here for 18x10.5's +15 offset on 275/35's on stock suspension.

Re: Dave's Evo X Build
 

Murlo,

Your setup should work just fine, Have you seen some of the setups evodave has been running (I believe 10.5 with 295 width) ? I think you are pretty safe on that setup. As far as Camber goes, Jeff the alingment guy was able to eek out 2.5 degrees of camber on the fronts on my setup just flipping the blots and applying pressure on the lower control arm with a bottle jack when tightening the bolts ;). As for the rest of the suspension, biggest bang for you buck will be a rear swaybar. I picked up a perrin from MAP for $180. Between tires, agressive alignment, and rear sway. You will be on rails.

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Yea I am not too worried. So you think hold off on the drop for now and if that then the Whiteline RCK as well since i was getting that because of the drop?

Regardless I am happy since I am finally getting rims. I am really pushing the budget, but I didn't want to buy tires to go on the stock rims again since I wanted bigger tires...and then i would have to buy more again when I got rims. So kind of the lomker attitude of while your in there, i have that too:) Just not quite as bad.

Re: Dave's Evo X Build
 

Looks terrible to me. He also spends the rest of the thread talking about doing it the right way later. I assume if he bottoms out his suspension that it'll leave a nice dent in his fender. The good news is that they seem to be filling in potholes (craters) around town.

I didn't do much research into rims like that, so...

Re: Dave's Evo X Build
 

If your planning on a drop, I think the roll center kit is a must have. I know alot people like less wheel gap, it dosent really bother me much. So if your on a budget, Id say hold off, I have been really happy were I am at without a drop and performance has been great. Id would suggest alignment from Jeff for sure any way you go, it was about 80 bucks if I remember correctly and it was soo worth it.

Let me know if you plan on selling the stock rims. I could use another set for test n tune days since I am on a "having a baby" budget. ;)

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Yea i have seen a lot of potholes filled the last week and a half. My normal routes are pretty good now.

I wouldn't say it looks terrible, but not great.

Are you suggesting that I do the drop and RCK right away I assume with the fender rolling etc?

I am getting the alignment no matter what, that is for sure a must have.

So I still haven't heard anyone suggest a fender rolling place, anyone?

Re: Dave's Evo X Build
 

PM me an offer and I will consider it. I will probably be very tempted but this would be something I would probably regret later, lol.

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You'll have to align it again after installing the springs. You can wait on the RCK and rear sway if you want but unless you're going to wait until next year to do anything else, I'd do it now.

You could try a separate thread for that question. I'd call Primo and ask them. They do metal fabrication work so I doubt they'd be afraid to roll a fender.

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Alignment is something you should check up on once in a while, maintenance if you will. The bumps and bruises from driving a car thousands of miles can throw stuff out of whack more than you'd think!

High five! This is in round #1 for mods on any car I have owned, it is insane how much of a difference you get for $200 and some cussing (during install :) ).

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On a car like this, I figure every Spring.

The hardest part on the X is dropping the exhaust. It'd be a 10 minute job otherwise.

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LOL... right on ..scheides.. The sway bar change was night and day difference for this car. By far the best 200 I ever spent. As far as sway bar install goes Murlo, it is pretty darn easy, If you need help, I can always offer a hand.

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I'm glad to see a X owner modding like crazy. Keep it up, and update us as you have!

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I got a ride in this car today. It felt string as hell, nice clean build! Got my the gears in my head turning again.... :P

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Might of felt a little faster with just two people in there;)

Hopefully that WGA helped, the car does seem to hold a little more up top now with it. Felt real good on the way home.

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BOOM!!!!!


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Those rims are TITS!!!!

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fap fap fap

So sexy in so many ways!

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:)

Star specs come next week and then i put them on. My car is going to look like a monster truck for a while until i lower it etc.

But oh well, i need to get off my winter tires...it's no good.

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Those rims look so good, can wait to see them on the car. Discount do well on the star specs?

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Are those RPF1's ? I can't tell. Also, those a mega wide! Those should look bad ass.

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yeah, he went 18x10.5 +15.

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Holy shit those things are wide!

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Eh, it was 250 a tire, but they are big tires so it was going to be pricey. Still way cheaper than buying new OEM tires though:)

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Yup they are a limited edition gunmetal RPF1. 18x10.5 with a 15 offset.

They are going to look funny until i drop it, but when that happens they will look like the shizz.

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Sounds competitive with the online prices. If you want a laugh then price out a set of RE11's.