My '99 UCF20 on bags, Seattle WA

[JFinn]

Stunning.

Never ever use fix a flat in a 3 piece wheel. Ever ever ever. Seal will fail.

I would try a different tire man. I stretch 205/40's on a 10 all day long with no leaks. Granted yours are a bit more extreme, but shitty no name tires are your friend. Soft sidewalls FTW. I would recommend nankangs. Cheap enough to burn through a set in 5000 miles too. $76 for a 205/40/18 on onlinetires.com

Thanks man! I have shitty no names haha! They have been great for me tho and lasted a lot longer than expected. Mine were right around that price. I'm fine with the slow leak tho, since I have a tire pump attached to my air tank.

[mrkrinkle]

Stunning.

Never ever use fix a flat in a 3 piece wheel. Ever ever ever. Seal will fail.

I would try a different tire man. I stretch 205/40's on a 10 all day long with no leaks. Granted yours are a bit more extreme, but shitty no name tires are your friend. Soft sidewalls FTW. I would recommend nankangs. Cheap enough to burn through a set in 5000 miles too. $76 for a 205/40/18 on onlinetires.com

[JFinn]

Thanks for the kind words guys!

love the build man! love that youre gonna stay with a stock body! btw what size lips are your wheels?

3.5 and 4 inches

Have you put sealant around the tire so it will not leak like the stuff that they use for flat repairs. I know we put that on my friends 18x10.5 wheels and it worked for him.

Awesome build by the way . Did you re route your wire harness or just tuck it up?

I havent had to touch my wire harness at all. I know its more of a problem with the ucf10s and early ucf20s but idk.

Fuuuuuck. You should be glad you didn't have this thing back when I lived in Seattle. I would have humped it mightily.

lmao



Alright I havent posted any updates on here in a long time! I have been living with my mom for the summer and it took me quite a while to find a job down here so unfortunately there havent been as many additions as I would like.

Earlier this summer we had an event called Cant Fake the Fitment. It was a good time! I took home Best JDM Fitment and my crew got Best Crew Quality.

The crew




The next event was StanceWars. Its probably the biggest stance event in the NW. I got Best VIP again at this one.



On the way home from the show my tire debeaded on the freeway at like 2:30am lol. I was distracted when I was leaving and forgot to check my tire pressure like i always do and the psi got too low so the tire just popped off. It chewed up the inside of my barrel.



Luckily the tire wasnt damaged at all and it re-sealed no problem. This was a few days later on my way up to get it re-mounted along with my buddy getting tires mounted on his Work Gnosis GS3's.



My car was on the front page of Canibeat.com i thought that was pretty cool



Last month Formula Drift came to Seattle and I got 2nd place Best VIP at the Slammed Society show. FD was so rad I cant wait til next year!



Me and said friend



Alright so time for some actual progress. We had a little break in the action up here in the NW so I decided I was gonna refinish my wheels. When I originally bought them from VR Wheels the lips were brand new but the faces had some scuffs on them. I dont have many good pictures of the defects but this was one of the better wheels. They were definitely noticeable enough to bother me and all 4 wheels had them.





Took apart the wheels



Sanded all of the wheels/defects and primed them



Then I decided to repolish the lips while I waited for primer to dry



Cleaned, scuffed, primed, painted and cleared the bolts gold. Turned out pretty good!



I chose to finish the centers in a very similar silver but I added gold flake and rainbow metallic flake that can only be seen in certain light. You really have to see them in person its hard to capture the flake!

Gold flake that you can see in the shade



Rainbow metallic flake. Theres also a video on my instagram that shows the rainbow flake much better! I love how the flake turned out so much!!!





And the final product!



Thats all for now thanks guys!

[siopaolover]

damn this build happened so fast! glad I read up on it though. good work man!

[Oh Damn, it's Sam]

Fuuuuuck. You should be glad you didn't have this thing back when I lived in Seattle. I would have humped it mightily.

[Randomofodication]

Damn this is just simply gorgeous! Absolutely love it

[Vwdubluvin]

makes me want a VIP car so bad! or make a VIP gti? haha

[Ferndog760]

Have you put sealant around the tire so it will not leak like the stuff that they use for flat repairs. I know we put that on my friends 18x10.5 wheels and it worked for him.

Awesome build by the way . Did you re route your wire harness or just tuck it up?

[dvious]

Dude this is so mint. Love everything about it, those wheels work perfectly!

Moreeeeeeee.

[Stupid Kid]

Oh one more thing, my rear tires are stretched so much that theres about 5mm of barrel showing. Both tires are leaking about 1 to 2 PSI per hour. I really don't want to have to go with bigger tires I love the stretch on them. Does anyone have any tips to get the bead to seal?

I've known people to use(small amounts of) fix a flax to get super stretched tires stop leaking

I would suggest trying to re seat them but I suspect if they are both leaking then they will leak again and taking them off and re seating them is going to weaken the tire and make it leak more

[tinyhippoucf20]

where did you get the side skirts man?!

[244Brick]

I'm in love with the simplicity of this

[CrackerTeg]

Been lurking on this build since its inception and waited until now to post. I like what I see here. I really liked your old BB6. What's next for this?

[scweet14]

love the build man! love that youre gonna stay with a stock body! btw what size lips are your wheels?

[JFinn]

Really like how this build is progressing. Any pics of the exhaust work? I need to get the same done to mine.

This is exactly what I had done http://liberty-vip.com/2010/04/10/th...-we-do-it-004/

Oh my damn. This thing is beautiful. Am I going to see this at StanceWars this year?

Yes sir you will. Come say hi!

found these.

Thanks man I was just gonna post these up. Heres what Ive been up to lately:

Put some crystals on the end of my lug nuts. Now I think I'm gonna sell them haha


Then I had a different Firestone find a few more degrees of camber for me. Now im sitting at -8 degrees all around.


Here's my solution to the rear tires leaking air


Played around with some light painting


I grabbed this shot on my iphone while my buddy Jon was shooting my car for a loweredlifestyle.com feature. Here's a link to the feature http://loweredlifestyle.com/doin-it-right/


Snapping a bunch of old ladies' necks while we were shooting for the feature haha. She said "Why would anyone do this to their car?"


This was at the first show of the year that my crew, Super Cute Crew, put on. It was a pretty good turn out and we auctioned off a set of Work Meisters!


The week after that I finally found some time to do the full detail I had been wanting to do. It came out even better than I was hoping. The paint looks great now! It was a 3 step process and it took me about two days.


I've had the idea for the K-Break style pin stripe for a long time. I'm very happy with how it came out


Two days after completing the detail/pinstripe me and some buddies made the trip up to Vancouver for ImportFest. Thats where the StanceNation pictures were taken. It was a good time but the show was 10 hours long......I don't know who in their right mind thought that 10 hours was a good length for a car show but they were very wrong. Next up is Forum Fest this weekend!