Zenki's Unite

[silviavert]

Originally Posted by alcolade

Hit up WV this weekend for 100 DOD!

Had a blast and Media dudes are awesome.

Wheels info plz

[jtmny1999]

Finally decent enough to post it up lol, just finished wrapping the front with 1080.
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[alcolade]

Originally Posted by silviavert

Wheels info plz

The Green wheels are DrifZ wheels
F: 235-40 on 17x9 -15 w/spacer
R: 275-35 on 18x9.5 +35 (tires were huge)




not sure on size of rears in this pic.

[terrence]

Originally Posted by keeeban

xcessive it is. thanks! Learned that going up the mountains after a storm hits is not the biz without a skidplate lol. Pulled a rock(or fucking boulder) bigger than my fist out from between the sway bar and plastic guard.. which is now hanging on by one screw lmao. Left a nice little quarter-sized dent on my oil pan too.

I have a xcessive skid plate on my car because it still has stock engine mounts and downpipe on it. It sits a little low but it is thick as a tank so it really doesn't matter.

[JonathanPrem]

How long does it hang?

[grimm199]

What about a street sign? Anyone have a write up on how to make one? Figured a sign would be much cheaper.

[keeeban]

Originally Posted by jr_ss

It has more of a cooling purpose than it does with keeping water out. I'll never understand why people just rip shit off they find useless. Now if you ground it into hamburger meat being low that's a different story.

yeah it's pretty torn up. I left it on just to protect debris from hitting everything.. it's done the job up until now but it looks like it's in it's last few hours of life haha

Originally Posted by terrence

I have a xcessive skid plate on my car because it still has stock engine mounts and downpipe on it. It sits a little low but it is thick as a tank so it really doesn't matter.

yup same here. on your zenki right? how's the clearance/how low does the plate sit?

[dagger]

Originally Posted by smashed

[s14fbs]

the caster camber on the second pic looks wild

love it

[thefro526]

326 Zenki makes me go unghhhh.

[blksylv]

[240Cali]

what a fucking beauty, wow

[s13Kurt]

Finally put my coils on. Kouki skirts on tonight, navan valances and paint soon...

[kenshinS14sks]

Originally Posted by 7evil

nicely done, very clean.

[terrence]

Originally Posted by keeeban

yup same here. on your zenki right? how's the clearance/how low does the plate sit?

I actually like how it mounts, but like I said it sits kinda low. But my car's kinda low so such is life.

Originally Posted by grimm199

What about a street sign? Anyone have a write up on how to make one? Figured a sign would be much cheaper.

I did this long time ago on my old car, worked great until the hardware holding it up got ground down, then it was a pain in the ass to get off.

edit: haha found pictures: jesus this was dumb..

[Lukasss]

Originally Posted by terrence

But my car's kinda low so such is life.

lI found this statement funny. lol


Ive said it before and ill say it again, theres no point in a skid plate in my opinion.
Unless you use it as a shield to road debris.

Its just something to hang lower than what its 'protecting'. If youre hitting your pan, youre going to just go right thru the skid plate or its going to dent the plate, and probably crack the pan anyways.

Then there is the thickness argument.
You hit a bump in the road. What do you thinks gonna give first? your metal sheet? or the earth?

[terrence]

I agree completely, but as the pan sits it would have been hit more than once since I have been driving the car. I could literally jack up the car by this skid plate. The mounting points and shape keep it from bowing up and hitting the pan, so nothing ever really comes in contact.

But once I put on the new engine mounts and downpipe it will most likely come off.

[Lukasss]

True that. I'm not against them. I'm just not a believer in them lol.
My friends e30 has one but all those BMW motors are so tall their pans and like the lowest part of the car by an inch. His bolts onto the frame of his car. I always wonder if he hits something hard enough if it'll tweak anything.

His is literally like a half inch thick.

[terrence]

Someone needs to talk me out of buying that pearl kouki front in the advertiser forum; fuck it looks sweet.

[ka-titties]

Originally Posted by Lukasss

True that. I'm not against them. I'm just not a believer in them lol.
My friends e30 has one but all those BMW motors are so tall their pans and like the lowest part of the car by an inch. His bolts onto the frame of his car. I always wonder if he hits something hard enough if it'll tweak anything.

His is literally like a half inch thick.

i agree with you. all the sheetmetal skid pans do nothing but keep road debris out of the engine bay. i have one on both of my cars and thats the only reason why i have them, to keep that bay shiny.

[1on1]

[iamtheyi]

^def not feeling it. no bueno. Thumbs down.

[zenki 95]

Looks like it just needs some decent rims. Also looks on a budget so I could understand ha. I would by coils but proly.a welder first

[keeeban]

Originally Posted by terrence

But my car's kinda low so such is life.

thanks for the chuckle hahaha

seems we're pretty close to clearance then. yeah I'll be ordering one soon, the rocks messed me up pretty bad lol gives me an excuse to order some new goodies I suppose

[mad-ass]

Originally Posted by 1on1

I LOVE THIS.

yeah. call me weird.

[mad-ass]

Here's the one I made for my S14...used the PBM one I own as a template.


Old unwanted S13 hood[ooh the memories of my S13...]




Doubled up via rivets and painted satin jade!



yeah..i basically got really bored one day and made that.

[keeeban]

noice work Lee, looks goood

you should make me one too

[illvialuver]

someone buy that ass some empi silicon inner tie rod boots

[mad-ass]

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[brian310]

just picked her up last night. zenki squad~~~~~~