Possibly looking for a wingless trunk and stock front bumper to trade with. Needs to be PG. Anyone local?

Getting a new wing?

Might be!

too bad your car wasn't smurf blue like jnaut's. his Z needs a wing badly! :icon17:

I don't think Jnaut cares about a wing since his car is pretty much set-up for drag racing & he doesn't drive it everyday. I'd say he needs a new front bumper ;)

oh he does care, and he knows its ugly without one. :icon17:

that and the car needs a little downforce at high speeds.... on the track. ;)

Its OK man, we know Jay's car only goes fast in a straight line.

Did you convert back to stock manifolds and cats?

Nope, just doing some arbitrage.

On 265/285 tires and 20mm/25mm wheel spacers? Not sure they will look good together. I have not seen any other members with this set up, so decisions....decisions. Just not sure and it's too pricey to throw the dice on oversizing with the spacers. I may have to go with OEM sizes with either the Potenza RE050 pole positions or Continentals.

Few new things coming out to the market? Please share.

That would look great I think. Well remember that the tires may be wider, but they would be going on the same size wheel...so they are gonna shrink a bit. Spacers sell pretty easily on the boards...i wouldn't be too worried.

Well, just stuff promised by UAM and such.

Thanks for the info, it's good to have options available.

I have keeping an eye also on UAM. Good stuff coming out from Andrew. I am gonna have to take a drive south to check out the goodies in the flesh.

10MM wider fender correct?
Would frp be ok?
Yours always welcome to come check it out!

That would be awesome, although I might be amusing it from Shine. I really like some of the stuff you guys are doing though, but obviously it doesn't come cheap..I'm kinda lurking in the background right now to see what happens.

I talk to ken daily. He is still debating on to go on with the fender 10mm. I told him I will make it.

On the tire sizes, would you recommend 265/35/19 and 285/35/19? I have read so many threads and just totally forgot the profile sizes. 35's Fr & Rr, right?

Ya, nevermind on those seats bro, after some research I found that they were not real brides, such a disappointment :(

Cool man, we'll see what you come up with.

Ideally you want to go with similar ratios to stock, so you would have to do 265/305. I think thats a little too wide for the stock wheels though and that if you dont do anything else, then you're going to get a car that understeers a lot. This is only if you want to go with the RE-11, other tires come in different sizes that will have the right ratios.

Yeah, I heard, who would have thought. I feel bad for Mike now because he's stuck with replicas. I hope he can work something out with the other Mike that sold them to him. Anyway, good catch.

Ya, I had to do some background checking on them seats, I was on the phone with kamispeed & a Rep from Bride themselves almost all day, and we are 100% certain these are fake bride seats. I was pretty disappointed to say the least, but at least both Mikes know the truth :ugh2:

To get the RE-11's to have the similiar ratio as stock, what else would I have to do to my setup? I have rear camber kit w/toe bolts and Stillen sway bars.

Then again 305's sitting on 25mm spacers may be just overkill in the looks department. I have some home work to do on tires to fit my setup and I do not want to bombard your thread with my tire questions. I will pm you in the future on the tire questions. I really appreciate your help as always you have been very helpful and patient with me. :tup:

Hey man, no worries about the questions. It's got more to do with tires than anything. The truth is that many people have done all sorts of tire combinations and no one has said their car doesnt work anymore.

Thanks man, I am thinking of going with stock up front (245/40) and 285/35 in the rears. The difference (1.57) in the section width between the two staggered sizes is the same as the 265/35 & 305/30 combo. It's up from the OEM staggered tire difference of 1.18

255/35 was a thought but with the spring drop (1.2) it might drop too much and rub with 20mm spacers.

Hey ZForce,

I think you will be fine with the 255 and those spacers up front. There's plenty of room in those fenders. I would even go 265/285. I think thats a great combo for the car. Someone had the 265/305 combo on their stock wheels and spacers, but you're gonna have to look it up. Not sure who it was...maybe repipsa?

Try and get as much tire under the front fenders as possible, this car tends to understeer when you start playing around with bigger rears and grippier tires.

I have 265/305 right now and haven't had a chance to really put them to the test yet :(

nice car =)

whats the biggest tire i can run in a 19 X 9? can i go 275/35/19? if so would i have to go 305/35/19 to keep same ratio as stock and prevent understeering.

I don't know what the biggest tire is, but I know that there are recommended fitment ranges for each size wheel.

You can use this page Car Bibles : The Wheel and Tyre Bible Page 3 of 4 If you scroll down theres "An ideal rim-width calculator."

Sometimes I just refer to this one too, but keep in mind almost all of it is R888 Specific. Toyo Proxes R888 Road-Race Tire

Car is looking good buddy. This thing better be at the Naples meet in May!!

Chris

I don't think he's going to be there chris, if he is I'm def getting a ride in the s/c Z.

I'd like to go!

I know we don't condone street racing here, but I did a random light to light pull with a new Jag XKR..it was roll on and I started in second gear from like 10 mph so I was kinda off the power band, but it was dead even until like 70-80 when we had to let off. I know I shouldve put it down to first, but at least I didnt have to shift. They have a supercharged V8 making 510hp/461tq and a trick drivetrain but weight 400lbs more than me.

tight work, Im sure he was suprised, lol

Actually you are dead on with suggesting 265/35/19 & 285/35/19. The 265 is closer to the stock ratio than the 255. And the section width

difference between the two staggered sizes is 0.79, that is better than the stock staggered differences at 1.18.

I am really eye balling the combo you recommend. Can you get up driveways without scraping on your 265's ?

I will have to search on...repipsa




Here are some numbers off of Americas Tire Calculator Tire Dimensions Made Simple - Discount Tire



Results......................245/40/19.....265/35/19
Totals are in inches...........Tire 1......Tire 2........ Difference
Sidewall Height:................ 3.86......3.65........... -0.21
Section Width:...................9.65......10.43.......... . 0.78
Overall Diameter:...............26.72......26.3........... .-0.42
Circumference:..................83.93......82.63.. ......... -1.3
Revs per mile:



Results......................275/35/19.....285/35/19
Totals are in inches...........Tire 1......Tire 2........ Difference
Sidewall Height:................ 3.79......3.93........... 0.14
Section Width:..................10.83......11.22.......... . 0.39
Overall Diameter:...............26.58......26.85.......... . 0.27
Circumference:..................83.93......82.63.. ......... 0.87
Revs per mile:



COMPARISON OF STAGGERED SIZES

Results......................265/35/19.....285/35/19
Totals are in inches...........Tire 1......Tire 2........ Difference
Sidewall Height:................ 3.65.......3.93.......... 0.28
Section Width:..................10.43......11.22.......... 0.79
Overall Diameter:...............26.58......26.85.......... . 0.27
Circumference:..................83.93......82.63.. ......... 0.87
Revs per mile:




Results......................245/40/19.....275/35/19
Totals are in inches...........Tire 1......Tire 2........ Difference
Sidewall Height:................ 3.86.......3.79.......... -0.07
Section Width:...................9.65......10.83.......... 1.18
Overall Diameter:...............26.72......26.58.......... -0.14
Circumference:..................83.93......83.5 .......... -0.43
Revs per mile:

I'm running 275/35 + 295/35 now (on 18x10 + 18x11 wheels though). Forgestar picked the offsets, no spacers involved. My 275's are just a little too wide for the front fender well, but the setup works well (slight oversteer). The 295's fit in the rear just fine though, with a little room to spare. On my wheels, a perfect flush fit taking up all the available room would probably be 265 + 305, but then I think there'd be too much relative grip in the rear and maybe get into understeer.

ZForce, I'm sure that would be fine! 265/285. I would have gone with that if I didnt need the meat to put down FI power.

275/295 would be great, but Zforce has a 19X9 so personally I think the 275 is too wide for it. Some others will disagree, but there's a reason why tire manufacturers recommend tire sizes to go with wheel sizes. Not to mention he's going to rub over bumps or maybe even full lock.

RZC, thanks for your feedback, looks like I am gonna pull the trigger on this combo.

^ awesome man, let us know how it goes.

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READ if you have a FIDANZA FLYWHEEL or know someone who does!

Hey guys I got a bit of an important announcement for people with Fidanza flywheels. Hopefully it gets enough exposure here.

It has come to my attention that several people (including me) have had the same problem with their Fidanza FW. Apparently contact patch on the bolts that hold it into place is not so good and that's allowing a small amount of play in the fw during high stress driving. That in term loosens the bolts and eventually leads to FW failure. It seems the most common form of failure is shearing of the heads off the bolts.

Has anyone else had this problem??? So far there's 3 or 4 people JUST in FL with the same problem. We are contacting Fidanza to get some info!

I have a JWT flywheel... would that affect me too?

Greeeeaaattttt...a brand new one is sitting in my garage.

JWT is made by Fidanza, but it seems the specs may be slightly different. We are still getting info about that.

I hope this gets resolved soon! I've only been without my car for 5 days and I already miss it lol.

Hope so too man, I hope it doesnt happen to me again...