350z's done how i like

i’d rather have my front plate zip tied on then the gay ugly shit they come out with to hide them. i like my plate mounted to my bedroom wall though.

I have 2 sets in my garage for the Z…

I had to take a lot of shortcuts in the hardware department on my driveline/motor to afford them thou. :ninja

negitive nancy says…those are nasty

I like this one too - good drop, flush wheels, but not tucked up into the fender wells. But hey, everyone’s tastes are different.

I still dont get the fucking wheel face poke past the bead bull shit. VW’s, these, hondas… wtf ever. Why do it? Can someone tell me this please.

I understand you want a wide wheel, fine. get the correct offset and it will fit in the wheel well. Put a fucking 285 on the 10" wheel… or are they all too cheap to buy anything past a 195?

I also understand the form over function, but if you buy a Z, drive it. If you want to drive slow, in a straight line, park it and look at it… get something else. Its getting a hot sex addicted girlfriend that you just take out to bars and look at.

Not to mention, the tire/camber stuff. If a 195 on a 10" wheel with 10+ deg neg camber, lasts longer than a blast to the corner store and back… I will be amazed. The effective tread width is probably less than my motocycle tire. I know the front tires on my mini trucks never lasted more than 3000 miles, and they were camberd like that, it sucked ass.

Not bashing you E, and I like the looks of a few cars in there, but I just dont understand it… like you said it isnt for everyone i guess, so ill gtfo. lol

PS red cars’ fender rolling looks like a 85 year old beef curtin.

^:lol @ beef curtin :rofl

People that want to tuck the tire and still have flush or a slight poke do it for looks. That’s the only reason as far as I know. I think it looks fucking awesome from the front or back. And you don’t need 195’s with -10deg of camber :lol

So to get a few MM of wheel poking past a fender, your going to ruin the handeling, stress the suspension, distroy tires, make it unsafe to drive? Not my cup of tea.

I am going to start building wheels for these fanatics. It will have 3 beads machined into the wheel. You can run normal tires and seat the bead on the edge of the wheel like normal people. or you can seat the bead on the inner seat, allowing the face of the wheel to poke past the tire by 1"-whoknows how far from the edge of the tire. Picture that in your head lol.

Suspension is all modified, I dont think it will stress it that much. Tires last long enough, ~ 6 months tops for me, but I’m slide happy and was at -3 camber. I don’t see how it’s unsafe. Handles good and stops good.

yours isnt as cambered, or stretched as much as they are.

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i’m not gonna try to convince you to like it, because its an objective thing, but to say these cars are unsafe to drive or don’t fuction is just a lie. these cars still can drive just as well as anything else, the white one is use as a drift car (obv just on a hobby level). and a lot of these cars don’t even have aftermarket camber arms, the red one had the stock set up maxed out at 4.8 degrees of camber. and camber does not make your tires wear as fast as people think, yes they will wear uneven and a little quicker but if your tires are wearing fast its the toe most likely destroying it, not camber (i wrote a 10 page paper in hs once on suspension setup, wish it was never lost). and my mr2 went through a set of tires in 5k miles with 2 degrees of camber and zero toe, that was to the point of them looking like slicks, not everyone gets a lot of miles out of tires, u just deal with it or u don’t do this style.

how did that post end up so long lol.

i should try to find the 350 with the custom make camber adjustments and ran 8 degrees of camber when he was layed out. shit was crazy :lol

I hear ya on the toe in/out wears tires faster, the lugs are twising and working harder thus wear out faster.

The camber puts an uneven load on the tread and heats up the tread unevenly to. some of the wild camber setups I see you can actually see daylights on the outer edges of the tread width… Not to mention even if they wear unevenly and it gets wet out, you will have 3/32 tread depth on the edge of the tire and steel bands on the inside where the contact patch is focused… thus going for a spin maybe.

To much camber will def. hamper the handleing. as the body leans the inside tires will get farther from perpindicular to the ground, and if the inside suspension sags more usually as suspension is droops the geometry adds more - camber to the car. depends on the suspension geo.

I dont want to keep jacking this thread, i know it wasnt your intenetions. But if you take a stock Z and a extreme Z as shown above and drove them at the same speeds and agressivness across the country the tire wear and would be much different.

multiple sets of wheels FTMFW

me for '10

-BBS RS flush or few mm poke depending on what i feel like, probably 185’s or 195’s on 8"
-dumpy ass stock drift wheels

  • (if i decide to autoX again) 15x7 with 205/55/15 Kuhmo Ecsta XS

best of all 3 worlds.

if you care that much about tire wear don’t modify your car. obviously a stock car is gonna have better tire wear. but i’m not trying to state differently. i’m talking about a moderately dropped car compared to a slammed one. as long as the suspension alignment is in check the car isn’t gonna have crazy fast wear comparatively just cause its slammed and running a little more camber

My truck eat tires in the front, and my brothers truck eats tires… infact I can take a pic of the fronts on his parked at my house. dumped out, it has about the same camber as the assends of these z’s and other max-poke cars.

they didnt last more than 5K, and it isnt a perfomance car so it goes in a straight line and is sloooow as balls, so its all suspension setup that killed them.

That because it isnt a static drop. These Z’s and cars like it are static dropped so toe ect can be adjusted for better handling/tire wear.

yes its all suspension setup. and i don’t know a damn thing about adjustable suspension so i’m not gonna act like i do. i do know though that its not just camber thats killing your truck’s tires, and my guess is since the ride height is always changing trying to get an alignment that is in check is out the window and the alignment probably doesn’t stay in check after you get one done for that long. but that’s just my educated guess.