Official old grumpy assholes of zilvia thread

[Corbic]

Originally Posted by Farzam

Grumpy cause damnit my car isn't low enough

Lowered it an inch in the rear, pulled out camber (changed offset from -9 rear to +5), now my shit is still the same height lol

Meh.

Obviously not old. You'll one day raise it up so you can actually drive hard and in comfort.



Nothing is as sexy as old school muscle stance.



Wheel wells filled, low belt line, high floor and plenty of clearance.

[Farzam]

Originally Posted by Corbic

Meh.

Obviously not old. You'll one day raise it up so you can actually drive hard and in comfort.

My jalop isn't that low. pre-2018 me woulda gotten 215/35 225/35 and slammed the shit as low as I could have. 2018+ me is grown, sophisticated, refined. My coilovers still have plenty of thread to go down. Now I buy 40 sidewall front tires.

I just wanted it a little lower cause I'm towing the car to VA to Springfest this weekend. Stephen is gonna be there, very excited for him to see the car after all these years and changes.

The older I get, the more I wish my car had wipers, A/C, heat, carpet, a passenger seat, mirrors that are useful, etc. BUT I find solace in the spirit of the drive. I have an e36 sedan I am planning to build as my comfortable mountain carver.

Speaking of BMW's, my old E46 M3 track car was up for sale for cheap. Pretty much bone stock now but if I wasn't in LA at the time I would have snatched it up for nostalgia's sake/to resell lol

[dizzariot]

I like it a whole lot when people who you know know better try to lowball you on your LMGT4s. One of the chief reasons being that they're 17" and therefore not as desirable. Oh yeah man, take a chunk out and ask me to cover shipping. I wasn't aware 9j+22 was so unpopular.

Originally Posted by Farzam

My jalop isn't that low. pre-2018 me woulda gotten 215/35 225/35 and slammed the shit as low as I could have. 2018+ me is grown, sophisticated, refined. My coilovers still have plenty of thread to go down. Now I buy 40 sidewall front tires.

Dude 100%. I want my car to be low but I also want to get my money's worth out of my tires and enjoy the ride. I got a set of Hipermax GTs for my S15 and they're seriously the shit. They were having a great sale so I got them for a fraction of the cost. The quality and precision put into the EVERYTHING they do is fucking radical. The manual (not generic, S15 specific), the engraved spanner wrenches that aren't some eBay shit, and the fact that HKS has preset them from the jump is super cool. They have a blurb in the manual that basically reads as follows:

"Yo dawg, u know we car scientists n shit. After all our experiments we think this preset height and dampening works well with this size wheel and tire. We got u fam. Throw this prescription on the car and ur gonna b fukken sikkkkk dawgieeee."

I went lower than the prescribed height, but holy shit man these are the most comfortable coilovers I've ever owned. I avoid a lot of 'big name' shit but HKS has hooked me.

Now that I'm done telling y'all I've seen the light, back to your topic: my car is low enough to look 'alright' but still to the point where my tires (in my opinion) are too big but I don't rub or hit anywhere even when driving..hastily.

...I still wish it was lower though. Cons of being a pussy I suppose.