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Old 01-24-2009, 12:34 AM
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Whoa, that RHD specific crossmember is pretty cool. Never saw one of those before.

And those wheels look awesome. My friend has a set of Enkei's on his RSX Type-S and i was going through the catalog and surprised to see they offered Porsche fitments. The only other Japanese wheel i liked were the TE37's from Volk. Its unfortunate however because those Enkei's like the Volk's are only available in 18''+ sizes for the Porsche bolt pattern.

You can get them from TireRack also, you have to punch in a newer model car however.. a '96 911 Coupe works and will give you all the same wheels that would fit a 951. They list the NT03 at around $325-350 each depending on widths.

We def. need some better outside shots!! I think those would look bitchin in black on a red car, think i may pass on CCW's now .
Old 01-24-2009, 01:54 AM
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Thanks guys. Yes I like the looks and think they're a great wheel available at a great price especially for you guys. They cost me $2900au where you are looking at $1400 a set! It's not fair. I know there is exchange rate but we all probably earn a similar weekly paypacket number so it takes us twice as long to pay for things.

The fronts were pretty close to the guards but this was with no neg so we should see some decent improvement with about 3-4 degrees. BTW, how much margin do we have to adjust caster in our cars?

Re the RHD crossmember, so the steering shaft came into play when getting my headers made up and Dave set up a jig with a dummy s/shaft and the side of the engine bay in position and built around it. This was achieved through a bunch of photos sent over to him. Be nice if they fit.

Here's stock, beginning of new ones with jig, finished product.
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Old 01-24-2009, 09:10 PM
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Very nice. I like the wheels and the choice of color.
Old 02-17-2009, 05:43 PM
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Patrick have you got your new Enkie's fitted yet mate and if so which tyres have you gone for?

Please please, I can't wait to see them on your car
Old 02-18-2009, 03:13 AM
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Patrick have you got your new Enkie's fitted yet mate and if so which tyres have you gone for?

Please please, I can't wait to see them on your car
Well chalk another one up for the education process of modifying cars. We trial fitted them with 2 sets of tyres plus I've fitted my rears to the front rhs before AND my mates same size Enkei with his 295 MPSC which are a big tyre. So everything looked like it would be fine when we went in for the final check fit. Put the car on the hoist set up all the camber, caster, toe etc and got just over -4 on the fronts. So we thought the front wheels would fit up just fine as the extra neg would move them away from the fender. Well dumbass me hadn't trial fitted both sides. So we discovered the space on the LHS was a LOT different to the RHS. The rears fit fine, but I want to run the same front as rear with these wheels. We settled on Falken slicks because they were SO cheap. Less than half the price of Michys and Pirellis so now we have to take it to the body shop guy to play with. I'm starting to wonder if I can get him to do something to the rears so we can either squeeze a 315 under there or at least use a spacer to get a wider track.
So I'm stuck until I can get the car into the shop for these mods.
Oh dear God, when can I stop the bleeding........
Old 02-18-2009, 10:27 AM
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Wow - that header is beautiful. I wish someone would start making something like that at a reasonable price for all of us.
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It'll never happen Curt. The hours that they take to make these items will always dictate that they're expensive. You could cut down a little on material costs by choosing an inferior grade of steel but what would be the point. I'm looking forward to seeing them in the flesh myself.
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'Tis a shame. It looks incredible.

Does your car have a stack?
Old 02-18-2009, 04:28 PM
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sorry, what's a stack?
Old 02-18-2009, 07:07 PM
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That thing that looks like it's sticking out of your rear wing. What the hell is that...a stack?
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Snorkel.
Old 02-18-2009, 08:50 PM
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Ah, right. That's a stack. It's the 5" downpipe for the SFR exhaust that will be going on the car soon.
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R4][N_M4l{3R - Love your pic but rather than "Wooooop" Putin it should be "Wack"
Old 02-18-2009, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by future
R4][N_M4l{3R - Love your pic but rather than "Wooooop" Putin it should be "Wack"
Old 02-19-2009, 03:01 PM
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Those wheels look great


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