aviography

Nice Ruf steering wheel with the horn buttons close by the thumbs, this is what I would like to have too, one day.

aviography

Phil,

Would you mind taking a close up pix of the headlight treatment for us so we can see how well it is done? I'm still debating how I might approach this with my headlights later on, i.e. tint film, painting the headlight to body color then cover it with Xpel film, or painting the Xpel protection film then cover it with thinner 3M clear film etc.

Thanks in advance

TideRace

+1 for details and more pics of Phil's headlight treatment. That looks great!

Thx/Mark

ivygreen

This picture's been seen before, but I figured I'd put it here also. Pretty standard...

Karl996

Here's mine. Just got it 7 weeks ago and still learning.....

100plus

Nice looking car ... Should get together some time (;

Cheers

PodiGreg

Thanks

Truth be told, this was taken on my iPhone. I have a few friends that are professional photographers, so I leave the DSLR's to them. Once my car is finished I'll get some real photos.

Capt. Obvious

Got the car aligned at Achtuning yesterday (www.achtuning.com) after fiddling with the coilovers all weekend to fine-tune the ride height and dampening.



They went above and beyond to get the rear suspension dialed in to my specific (non-factory) alignment settings to make the car more street friendly.

I went with .15 degrees of toe-in and -2.3 degrees of camber. This should hopefully greatly extend the life of the rear tires. It also significantly cut down on road noise from the tires with the reduced scrubbing and the car drives much better with no tramlining.

aviography

What were the factory alignment settings in comparison?

Capt. Obvious

When I took it in, the initial settings were something along the lines of -1.7 degrees of camber and .86 degrees of toe-in! No wonder the tires were bald in the rear.

aviography

Wouldn't the increased negative camber increase wear on the inboard tread and cause uneven wear vs even but accelerated wear with the higher toe-in you had before?

(sorry to turn this into alignment discussion...)

Capt. Obvious

Yes, but excessive toe is much worse for your tires than a bit of extra camber. People generally equate a lot of negative camber with tire wear, but the cause of the tire wear is usually due to the excessive toe caused by the negative camber. If you can get the toe back in spec the camber isn't too big an issue.

Running a lot of camber certainly isn't ideal of course, but it's the lesser of two evils.

Gator996

Here is my 2000, stupid ugly wheels included. Doing some interior mods first then wheels and body kit.

fivepointnine

Ill buy your "stupid ugly wheels" when you get ready to sell them!

Gator996

I would definitely work that out with you in a few months. They are 19's with brand new Falken's. I want to go with black rims as soon as I find a decently priced set. Gotta save up for the body kit and get rid of the GT2 wing on it also.