Just like the good ole' days.

Yesterday i helped my good friend step into the realm of fitment... I sold him some of my spares from last season with the same tire setup i run. on a s2k, that's pretty tough to fit from what I hear... so we dove right in. This is so remnant of our first years tuning, we all used to be at his house outside working on our cars, so this scene was so nostalgic to me, it made me feel like I was 17 again.

Here is how he had it set before on AP2 17's.




Its pretty much on the floor. everyone that knows how low my jack is can imagine how low his car is, hence the wood boards under the wheels.

A quick switcharoo and voila... look at him in the background "ooh, he-so-happy"


He was pleased, can't you tell?


But, we had allot of work to do still... This s2k is now sitting on 235/45/17 fronts and 245/40/18 rears. 17x9 +37F 18x9.5 +37R.



The car was obviously not going to be able to roll on this setup, I couldn't get a hold of anyone with a fender roller and he had to get to work in the morning, but stock wheels weren't an option lol.

We worked well into the night, setting correcting, changing on the suspension.




Of course the rear had to go up anyway, he was tucking tires on 17x7's and now were on 18's out back. So we set it just above the tire, and I stiffened up the coilovers..


He took it around the block quite a few times, and man his block is bad. potholes, construction, speed bumps, etc... and he did a few heavy throttle pulls, this was still the clearance when he got back. so we know the rear will be good for a day or so. But the fronts were a different story... only slightly.


We just raised it off the tires a bit, so he could get in driveways fine. when I have some more spare time, I am going to roll his fenders and set the car back down to a slammed height. ...but for now, she does still look good monster trucking.


Oh yea, for those of you that remember me attempting to slide this car but failing horribly... I found out why. He had preloaded the springs tremendously, and unevenly on all 4 corners.... and the shocks were set on soft. Well, its corrected now... but sonoma drift is over with. :( Oh well, we got a ncrc track day coming up, he says he wants to road race and I am going to set his suspension up as much as I can and we will test it out on the track in a few weeks... wish us luck.