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Had my windshield replaced, as it was pitted up rather badly. The car came from Palm Springs, so I'm sure the sand got the better of it. Also, I swapped out my winter tires and dropped in some new rims from Signature. Some quick pictures.
I still need to get the Techart Springs to lower it at some point. DSC from TPC. Maybe a COBB tune and Kline exhaust in the future also.
Looking good man!
(yes, Please put those Techarts on!)
Signature wheels FTW!
Had my windshield replaced, as it was pitted up rather badly. The car came from Palm Springs, so I'm sure the sand got the better of it. Also, I swapped out my winter tires and dropped in some new rims from Signature. Some quick pictures.
I still need to get the Techart Springs to lower it at some point. DSC from TPC. Maybe a COBB tune and Kline exhaust in the future also.
- Your car's shine and sharp is knocking me out!
I'm putting a Clearplex windshield film on mine. Here in CO its either that or power-pits. At least the stock fender gap on these cars is about same on top as it it to sides of the tires, doesn't need lowering to look good to me : )
I don't think you will like the Clearpex...I had it and it's expensive and at least mine was like looking through a sheet of saran wrap....distortion...abberation etc...it does work tho for fine impacts
- Your car's shine and sharp is knocking me out!
I'm putting a Clearplex windshield film on mine. Here in CO its either that or power-pits. At least the stock fender gap on these cars is about same on top as it it to sides of the tires, doesn't need lowering to look good to me : )
When I had them installed last fall, I had put the winter tyres on immediately, so yesterday (today) was the first opportunity to run summers with the new spring setup.
I inflated the summers to 38/48 and can immediately notice that the summers sidewalls are considerably stiffer than the winters - surprisingly so. They track much better and there is no take up with 'slippage' as there is with the winters. There is also a noticeable noise, vibration and harshness increase - considering I am half deaf, I suspect this may be even more so for those with good hearing.
That being said, I love it. So young masked guy in a Panamera tried to have a go at me and I walked away without incident - when the car squatted, it just hunkered down and gripped... and took off. It was impressive; it seemed to (to me at least) track very solidly, more solidly than the stock springs could.
So, I am going to try changing the tyre pressure to a more 'comfort' orientated pressure for the city and see if I can find a good compromise; most certainly, the 38/48 psi settings for highway and road trips will work fine, but in the city, with crappy roads, I think these may diminish the NVH issues that have shown up.
Finally gave in and took the car for a drive this morning to let it see the new wheels and sample the ride on the 21"s....it took a while and some concern (not knowing what to expect) to learn the wheels but eventually it accepted them (no setting in wheel settings for 21") and I gotta say I expected a much worse ride quality than what I experienced...it actually is very acceptable and with the Eibach springs I found the ride very compliant, positive and or course "like on rails"..Although I never pushed it (still plenty of road gravel) I had to at least once tip it in a little aggressively from a light to get it a little sideways just to rekindle that TTS g-force grin..
04-17-2020, 09:32 PM
