Imports

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Damn, Dougboy's car is looking pretty sweet. Totally should hit him up for a shoot when I get my new car haha.
 
Whoring out Dougboy's car. :D
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Perhaps a small spacer would be in order.
Yeah, I'd like to see close ups of the fitment. The wheels look good with a nice little dish. The front tires look more stretched than the rear, what's the deal with that? The rear tire size would look better on the front in my opinion (I think the mild rear stretch looks great) and that's why the fronts look small. If he's going to stretch the front tires like that he needs spacers and more lows.

Positive reinforcement of course, I'm just spotting potential lol. Up to some 5mm spacers will probably work with the stock studs still, I know a few people with that size. Gotta get that tire size straightened out though, I vote to go with the rear size instead of the front.

Overall I'm diggin it. Props on the wheels, the bronze looks great against your paint.
 
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Stretching tires when it's not necessary just makes it look bad. Definitely needs either spacers or a bigger tire up front.

Stagger on a fwd car is also bad looking.

Although I do love Work Emotion CR Kai wheels.
 
I thought about running a staggered setup on the Civic for track days. The whole smaller wheels in back thing. Wasn't sure it was worth it though.
Reverse stagger is fine for FWD cars.

I imagine it would help a good bit at autocrosses or tight tracks, but I think for a faster track, a setup with more overall grip (not staggered) would be more drivable at high speeds.
 
Wow, is it just me or did my car end up being posted on the "Imports" thread :sly: Thanks for the reference McLaren :)

As for the stagger, no it doenst make sense. I decided against staggered wheels but the front rubbed wayyy too much so i had to put in a narrower tire to make room. Plus, the car is parked on a slant in that pic. Its weight is leaning on the other side so the gap appears to be bigger.

Last but not least, im going to be honest and say im a poser. Performance is not my main concern, as opposed to fitment/drivability
 
Last but not least, im going to be honest and say im a poser. Performance is not my main concern, as opposed to fitment/drivability
Honestly I don't mind as long as the person doesn't act like they've still got some kind of awesome handling race car or something after doing stuff like that. (or that a fully automatic slushbox can still be considered an effective means of performance driving. Makes me wonder how much understanding they have of what is involved with actually driving a car quickly) I was just saying I don't really like how staggered setup's look on fwd cars.

My car will probably be entirely too low and have stretched tires when I'm done with it as well. I wouldn't say poser because the car will still be driven hard and beat on, but I'll do it knowing quite well that it's not nearly the best it could be.
 
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Reverse stagger is fine for FWD cars.

I imagine it would help a good bit at autocrosses or tight tracks, but I think for a faster track, a setup with more overall grip (not staggered) would be more drivable at high speeds.

Recommended setup? Our track here is actually a large go-kart track about a mile long, so I may just do this.

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Recommended setup? Our track here is actually a large go-kart track about a mile long, so I may just do this.
If you don't really care for your fenders, I'd go with a 215/45/15 up front and a 205/50/15 in the rear. Maybe a small sway bar like one from an SI to help it rotate. Just don't go overboard so the car is unstable doing anything except tight corners.
 
If you don't really care for your fenders, I'd go with a 215/45/15 up front and a 205/50/15 in the rear. Maybe a small sway bar like one from an SI to help it rotate. Just don't go overboard so the car is unstable doing anything except tight corners.

Fenders are already rolled and pulled. :dopey:

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll search around for some tires tonight in the 215 size for the front. I'm already running 205/50/15 all the way around. I had planned on a rear subframe brace with a CTR rear bar, but it's 22mm which I thought might be too much. Thanks for the tips. 👍

Now back to our regularly scheduled program. :D
 
I was just saying I don't really like how staggered setup's look on fwd cars.

Staggered wheels look the same regardless of where the car puts the power down. Having said that, usually the track is wider up front than out back of an FWD car, atleast that's my experience. It looks weird when the fronts stick out more than the rear wheels, so a FWD car will benefit from a staggered setup. Not in the corners like an RWD car would though, for sure.
 
Staggered wheels look the same regardless of where the car puts the power down.
I know, but whether the car is FWD or RWD is what makes me like it or not. Kind of like a hood scoop. I don't really like them, but in the case of a Subaru STI for instance, I know it's functional, and therefore, I think it belongs there, and looks weird without it.
 
As for the stagger, no it doenst make sense. I decided against staggered wheels but the front rubbed wayyy too much so i had to put in a narrower tire to make room. Plus, the car is parked on a slant in that pic. Its weight is leaning on the other side so the gap appears to be bigger.

Last but not least, im going to be honest and say im a poser. Performance is not my main concern, as opposed to fitment/drivability
You're not a poser if you're not posing.

Anyways, I feel like you should try to make the other size fit instead of using these smaller tires. It's easy to unscrew, cut, fold, or tuck fender plastic to suit, and rolling the inside of the fenders. Gotta do what you gotta do to make clearance. I know all these new cars have a pristine and entirely plastic inner fender so it's a super pain to make it not rub lol.
 
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