zedevan

yeah i actully just went and took some, i'll resize them and post them in a bit its not to bad when ur looking at the car overall, i just need coilovers, hello tax money! lol

i like option 2 as atleast its an upgrade plus my car never sat at the height i wanted it too, ie this is a picture of it with 225/45's on the rear. the gap with the flares on is less than this but yeah, i want less now...

well i mounted the rear flares up to high, i'm blamming the ground it was sitting on at the time and the main side i was playing with was the drivers side which is about 15mm lower than the other, and i had a full tank of fuel, and i was reading the stuff on hybridz about them mounting them 3inches above the guards so mine still didn't seem that high, but now i've gone through lots of pics of jap cars there is no way they are up 3"...so i'm guessing its going to start to look way to high when its empty. so i figure i have two solutions 1 get the holes welded along with the antenna hole and front indicators and paint the car which i was kind of going to do anyway as most would know, but i'm liking the green with the flares, hence y i didn't paint it before i got the wheels... 2 get coilovers in which case i think i could just leave them the height they are at and lower the hell out of the car, in which case i dont care about the scratches on my car. 3 buy another set of rear flares and use a thicker rubber bit around it. i orginally cut off the little lip around the body side of the flares as i thought it was excess material from them being made, and the rubber i'm using is a "T" which sits really well with this lip being cut off, however using the "p" shape would give me about another cm overall so i could lower them a bit that way, althoguh it would only lower the wheel gap i can't think of anythign else, and yes i'm naturally pissed off at myself lol

what does that picture have to do with anything? lol but thats the height i want my car to b at, pity i have to go over atleast 3 speed humps to get to my house no matter how out of my way i go...

my favorite section of the great ocean road is an inland bit between johanna bay and the 12 apostles where every corner is a recommended 30 but last time i was there, there were the road works, sure will b sweet when they are finished! i made my battery fly across and hit the engine and disconnect itself lol

while you can just wind it up and down doesn't it take awhile and you need to corner weight it to make sure they are all even? good point regarding the holes in the floor... fwiw gav with running 205/60r14's on the front (smaller diameter than sotck) and 195 70's on the rear (which i think is pretty close to the proper size) my front spoiler cleared the gutters in car parks by about 5mm, now by the look of it, it will clear by quite a bit, so i want it lower again but dont really want to run lower profile tyres...and my wallet doesn't agree with coilovers well i need to save something lol

A very stupid question i know and woudln't happen for ages but... Since the lowest parts of our cars are the frame rails and then there is no other part of the body as such for mayb 30mm, would mounting the frame rails on the inside of the floor be a feasible option? sure its structural but does it matter what side of the sheet its supporting? and would it cost heaps to get done? and be a pain to get engineered? i'm just thinking that long term i'd like my car lower, but it already scrapes enough on some driveways etc, and is probably close enough to the legal limit of the lowest part being 100mm off the ground

yeah i think i ended up drilling the holes to mount them a bit higher up than where they are taped on in those pics, so the bottom of the flares sit just below the standard guards line. they might look a bit high in that side on picture as i was resting the camera on the ground. they do look a bit on the high side but i want to have my car look low coz it is low, not just low thanks to the flare height, and wanted the front and back sitting about the same height above that visual line that goes down the side of the car. so the top of the flares are sitting around the same height as the middle of the door handle the only problem is just drilling one of the holes i drilled straight into copper...and now my rear parkers dont work since i'm not going to cut the guards myself i can't think of an easy way to repair this besides run new wires from up near the dash to the back for them, or see if they'll solder it up?

i think it was due to the slope my car was sitting on before, i can't work out if its higher or what! the rear flares dont seem to completely cover the rear wheels, well not as well as i remember your's covering them, like its only just wider then the wheels at the widest point

yeah a lame excuse on their behalf i know! the sad thing is the front centre caps dont fit on as from the mounting face of hte wheel to the inside of hte cap is 50mm and the zed hub sticks out 65mm...atleast on my car, the worst thing about this is one of the wheels they machined after powdercoating so it looks a bit hack, i'm wondering what their solution is going to be...i guess i'll find out monday... well i just got home to a camera at last and thought i may as well take some pics even though the flares are just on there with gaffa lol, i'll fix it up tomorrow and hopefully find my bro's dslr, wash the car and get some better pics there are only so many things to hold the camera anywhere near steady enough, specially when its cold amoungst other reasons...

a mate from uni is obsessed with that boat, so dam expensive but looks pretty mad from some angles my bg has either been a light grey or my favorite miura concept picture of the week...currently its a mixture of both

they are identical sizes to what you have sulio but they dont seem to have as much of a stretch as i remember your's having...mayb its because they are winter tyres so are wider than normal...but hey if they last me winter i'm happy enough (ppl at work commented saying they look like 4wd tyres in terms of the pattern on them) or i'll check back in there sometime and if they have some better ones i'll leave these sitting in the corner at my place. most of the other ones they had, had that little tread left on them i'd have to go back there in a month or get defected... better photos will come in daylight, and since i dont get home before its dark and to lazy to get up earlier that may b in awhile...i might even hold off until all 4 rims are on there along with the flares i think the centres of the wheels are slightly different to you'rs sulio as machineing them to suit the new centre caps was one of their excuses for why it took over 100 days to make them...

went and picked them up at last, without seeing dom, and he hasn't returned my call so i'm thinking he probably isn't a good person to go through if anyone else is after a set... i got tyres for them but they are a winter style tread, they were cheap and had the most thread left, and i assume they'd b quite a hard rubber so should last awhile? hopefully i'll get some nicer ones next time i've stuck the front on the rears for now as they only stick out half an inch lol

yeah it sounds interesting, but how much is a standard r200 worth? i saw a 3.7:1 on ozdat for $500, so if i sold my old diff for that then they work out to be close to the same amount? plus now i have a better ratio, only issue with that is where do i get the speedo gears from? lol

fb rx7's have +20 so its probably pretty right for our zeds, and they are dam cheap, i'm just going to leave it as i guess my parents woudln't really like another 4 rims just sitting around the place...

yeah i get how having 8 holes instead of 4 would be an issue, although i was thinking u could elongate the holes out an extra 2mm each diagonally - so not much at all and u would have 4x114.3 with no huge strength differences, although i belive the holes are tapered/chamfered so guess that could be an issue... i should be getting my rims this week, although i've said that so many times i no longer believe it myself, however just saw the wheels linked below on ebay and thought for that kinda price i'd b happy to have some legal sized? versions of the same rims lol http://cgi.ebay.com.au/roh-16-inch-venturo-rims-and-near-new-tyres_W0QQitemZ250116964040QQihZ015QQcategoryZ6782QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i can't seem to find any solid information on what stud pattern and offset fb rx7's ran, does anyone know if their wheels will work on a zed? the only info i've found is they are 4x110, if thats the case getting them machined out to 4x114.3 wouldn't b that big an issue...would it?

yeah lol, thats the kind of measureing thing i was talking about, i think they have a couple at work so i'll grab one on monday i was reading something about those phantom grip things, sounds like a cheaper alternative, but i'm happy

i was refering to the rear spoiler that sulio has on his car, i'm not really sure what front spoilers ash can get sorry, i think its both the type that was on nigels car and the first sort sulio had lol