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Melbourne Member - VIP style Lancer
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:10 pm
by [ MLTESE ]
Hey guys,
Id like to say hello and show you my black lancer.
Its great to see this forum for our cars and it has a lot of useful information.
Iv done some mods to it to give it the look i wanted:
20x8.5 rims
Pedders Xtreme XA Coil-overs
Custom axle back muffler
Auxiliary mod
Darkest legal tint
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:12 pm
by tadz0rz
Welcome to the club mate, hope you can attend our meet at the garage in mid july. Check out the melbourne cruise thread!
Where bouts in melb you located?
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:26 pm
by dumb&
Welcome aboard.
Not usually a fan of that style of wheel, but it suits the car well. Just need to fill in the gap between the wheel with some bigger brakes!!
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:08 pm
by ofey
Welcome aboard mate. Hope you join us at a meet soon!
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:13 pm
by infinite
awesome! +1 I've been waiting for someone to do this with a black one. You definitely need to get your hands on the VRX/RA black taillights.
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:34 pm
by m1n1on
welcome to the club!
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:21 am
by Ozie
Welcome to ClubCJ
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:33 am
by SIR-VRX
Welcome to the club! Looks good!
Do you get any scrubbing with 20" wheels? Reason I ask is my dealer did a ES with 20s as a "special" and it scrubbed like hell
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:51 am
by [ MLTESE ]
Thanks for the comments guys!! Yeah might see me at a cruise one day when i get a chance.
I'm from the western suburbs- Werribee area.
At the moment im happy with the look of the car, so i will probably keep it how it is for now, but u never know in the future lol
With the 20's, I haven't had any scrubbing issues at all. It gets very close to touching the rear fender on speed humps but doesn't touch. The tires are very low profile and not as wide as the rim, so i was able to lower it and not have any scrubbing.
The only problem iv had with them is that at around 90-100kmh the car is kind of bouncy and steering shakes on the freeway, which doesn't feel good. I think it could be from running the 30 profile tyres or need wider ones.
Anybody else had a similar issue?
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:32 am
by tadz0rz
i had an issue with my wheel shaking when on the freeways. Had to do a wheel balance. Fixed the problem but anything above 110, then it starts to shake again. Im runnin 19"s on my car and im not 100% sure but maybe its because the wheels are too tall and its throwing the camber out which is making my wheels shake.
I sound smart with that last sentence, hopefully it makes sence..?
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:45 am
by spareparts
hey welcome to the club
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:18 pm
by DVS
Welcome aboard
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:16 pm
by leevin
nice ride man, cant wait to see the finished product.
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:26 pm
by [ MLTESE ]
yeh maybe need to get them rebalanced. On mine I don't think it would be a camber problem because after i installed coilovers i got a wheel alignment done and they adjusted it.
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:05 pm
by tadz0rz
Well i dunno then. All i wanted was big wide wheels and thats all i know
