VIP - its so hot right now, UCF21 build

[aeok18109]

Was good seeing this thing today. Car looks fresh as fuck bro. When I got back to house I found a tire for you. It's a pirelli P zero Nero 235/40/18 dot number says it was made in 3rd week of 2013.still has pretty decent tread on it and it's been in storage since as long as I can remember. Never mounted it myself but it might be useful for you to test fit. Let me know if you want it.

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Small update, installed the camber and toe arms awhile ago



Then dropped the car off at my fabricators about 3 weeks ago to get the cats modified and the single exhaust fabbed and tucked. FINALLY picking her up tonight, can't wait Gonna spend the weekend lowering it back down on the Dukes and getting everything sitting just right. All I'm saying is it better make it out of my garage now

I was hoping to get the car back in time to make it to SOWO but whatever, still went and had a good time. It was my first time and I'm definitely going to be getting a room next year.

Since this post needs more pics here's one of my roomies built and stripped all motor VR GTI at SOWO



Hope to have finished pics of the LS and another update by the end of the weekend!

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For sure man!

I'm dropping it off tomorrow to get the exhaust fabbed. Should be around this weekend to meetup, hopefully will be putting the wheels back on and adjusting the suspension.

[aeok18109]

I'm back in GA. I would love to see this thing at some point. Hit me up

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Got a small update, haven't really messed with the car for a couple weeks. Luckily I have a DD so its just been sitting in my garage collecting a nice layer of pollen.



Got some parts in, Megan toe and camber arms and a Borla



This gave me the motivation to swap out the wheels and raise the car up so I can get it out of the garage and drive it. Raised it about an inch and a half all the way around.



Drove it around some getting use to the new suspension, get a bit of a whirring noise when I take left turns, gets louder the faster you go. I'm thinking the right fender might be rubbing?

Next step is to get a single exhaust fabbed and tucked so I can put the other wheels back on and see how low I can drop it and still get it into and out of my garage

[PRO-STAR]

good work so far ...making want to do a LS400

[tyler589]

http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57752

Link to my thread

[aeok18109]

i think the fact that you have the regular vs the extreme drop kit might be why its giving you such a hassle. love the wheels dude. epic setup. have to link up one of these thursday/sundays to check out the cars lol.

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What was keeping your rear coils from compressing? Was it just the fact that the front end was up on stands?

When I got rid of the jackstands up front it stayed the same (about a 2 finger gap). To lower the rear I had to get rid of the preload and spin the top collars down to the height I wanted.

What did you do with your rear quarters? i shaved them then rolled but they dimpled -_- either way doesnt matter because the whole car is getting resprayed when my kit comes in but yours looks good.

No such luck, mine are dimpled aswell. Not terribly but you probably can't tell because the car isn't out in the sun completely. No way of preventing that unless you shave all the way to the outer lip. You got a thread for yours, would love to see another LS build!

[tyler589]

What did you do with your rear quarters? i shaved them then rolled but they dimpled -_- either way doesnt matter because the whole car is getting resprayed when my kit comes in but yours looks good.

[DeltaAlpha9]

What was keeping your rear coils from compressing? Was it just the fact that the front end was up on stands?

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When I first lowered my Mercedes the exhaust drug real bad too. I let it drag it's self off. Go drive more

Ha, I totally would except for the fact that I can't get it out of my garage

[aLaFleur]

When I first lowered my Mercedes the exhaust drug real bad too. I let it drag it's self off. Go drive more

[Thom]

New tire and get the exhaust tucked. LOOKS SO GOOD THO! Good job!!

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So yesterday was a day filled with great joy and immense frustration.

Got Jimmy over to roll the fenders, if you're in the ATL area this is who to go to. Really cool guy and he definitely knows his stuff, would recommend to anybody https://www.facebook.com/VipFenderRolling



Took the car all the way to the ground and the rear stayed where it was, only way to get it lower was to remove the preload and droop the spring. Ended up having to max out the factory camber to get it to work, here it is after the roll and on the ground



Ordered some Megan Racing camber and toe arms to get everything sitting right. Gonna need to dial in a little more camber to get enough fender clearance to get the toe correct.

After that we proceeded to the fronts and got those knocked out, than FINALLY had everything back together and on the ground ready for the test drive. This was the first time I got to look at my car after all the hard work and I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty giddy and couldn't wait to take it out.



This is also the point where it went downhill...

Hopped in, put it into R and not two seconds later a metal on concrete sound. After some searching found out the exhaust is hitting my garage and not letting me pull out. Luckily my roommate has a ton of wood in the basement.



After close to an HOUR we finally get her out of the garage and onto the street after many failed ramp designs. The entire time the exhaust is scraping on the ground, so the test drive basically lasts to down the street because of the racket its making.



Needless to say I'm a little frustrated at having a car that looks AMAZING that I CAN'T DRIVE. Even if I raised the front up some it still won't clear the garage without me going 4x4 on it.

Some pics of it from today and how it looks, I got it sittin on some wood so I can get the stock jack under it.











Here's a pic of the exhaust, not much clearance and thats with it sitting on an inch of wood so it just looks like that elbow is constantly scrubbing the ground.



Also my chrome B pillars came in and 3 out of the 4 showed up cracked from shipping so thats cool. For now I'm gonna stop working on the car for a little while, been goin at it straight for almost 3 weeks.

Plans:
- raise car up and throw stockies back on for now so hopefully I can at least get it out of the garage and drive it
- get the exhaust tucked
- go with original plan of running a 40 series up front which will give me, according to a wheel calculator, an extra inch of clearance hopefully
- get some more front camber

Now everytime the garage door opens it mocks me, haha