OFFICIAL: Aggressive Wheel fitment FLUSH/STRETCH sedan
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Gonna go with the HD revised Nismo in a couple weeks.
Haha, yes it did.
Semi-Truck Tire Tread .... 1
My Front Lip ..... 0
But that's what happens when you daily drive a car with the frame 2" off the ground.
looks like ur car got its *** whooped LOL....looks really nice man!!!!
Semi-Truck Tire Tread .... 1
My Front Lip ..... 0
But that's what happens when you daily drive a car with the frame 2" off the ground.
I'm so fu#king far away from my sedan brothers...
yeah I feel that. besides the z1 show the varisty meet just has ton of old civics and ricey stuff with a few nice cars mixed in, just a few. All the cool stuff goes down in CA
Okay - I've bit my tongue long enough... saw this post in the "look what I got thread" and decided to post my feelings.
Massive negative camber is nothing new - but many people on this site are too young to have seen the evolution. The reality is; years ago cheap little beaters owned by young kids with no money would run around on wheels that didn't fit the car... the wheels were cool (to the owner) and would be in a price point they could afford so they "made it work" by shoving wrong size wheels under the car.
Back then the same type of people that couldn't afford upgraded suspension or even lowering blocks, would cut their springs to drop the car/truck (just to give you an idea of what we're talking about here).
The trend evolved to what is today - a fashion statement for the car (even though it began as a ghetto way to have after market wheels). It's not at all unlike baggy pants - when I was in elementary school some kids would wear baggy pants because they were hand-me-downs from older brother(s), that turned into a fashion statement of wearing jeans low and showing 1"-2" of boxers waist band (it became the cool thing even though it started from a cheap alternative to new pants)... The baggy trend further evolved when gang-bangers started carrying guns (instead of using knives, shanks and fists) and they purposely wore loose pants to conceal guns as big as sawed off shotguns... that ended up translating to a fashion statement and kids would actually buy over-sized jeans to look cool (like the gang bangers I guess
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So this whole trend of widely exaggerated negative camber and stretched wheels all started from kids forcing wheels that don't fit on their car... To this day it still looks the same to me (just more awkward on a semi-luxury car than an old beater).
Okay - I've said it... now I'm done.
Massive negative camber is nothing new - but many people on this site are too young to have seen the evolution. The reality is; years ago cheap little beaters owned by young kids with no money would run around on wheels that didn't fit the car... the wheels were cool (to the owner) and would be in a price point they could afford so they "made it work" by shoving wrong size wheels under the car.
Back then the same type of people that couldn't afford upgraded suspension or even lowering blocks, would cut their springs to drop the car/truck (just to give you an idea of what we're talking about here).
The trend evolved to what is today - a fashion statement for the car (even though it began as a ghetto way to have after market wheels). It's not at all unlike baggy pants - when I was in elementary school some kids would wear baggy pants because they were hand-me-downs from older brother(s), that turned into a fashion statement of wearing jeans low and showing 1"-2" of boxers waist band (it became the cool thing even though it started from a cheap alternative to new pants)... The baggy trend further evolved when gang-bangers started carrying guns (instead of using knives, shanks and fists) and they purposely wore loose pants to conceal guns as big as sawed off shotguns... that ended up translating to a fashion statement and kids would actually buy over-sized jeans to look cool (like the gang bangers I guess
)So this whole trend of widely exaggerated negative camber and stretched wheels all started from kids forcing wheels that don't fit on their car... To this day it still looks the same to me (just more awkward on a semi-luxury car than an old beater).
Okay - I've said it... now I'm done.