VIP - its so hot right now, UCF21 build

[aLaFleur]

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

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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

[DeltaAlpha9]

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

[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.

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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!

[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.

[tyler589]

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

Link to my thread

[PRO-STAR]

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

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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

[aeok18109]

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

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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.

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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!

[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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Big update time!

Picked the car up with the new exhaust and could not be happier, its tucked up nice and high and sounds incredible with the Borla. I've never been disappointed by Borla and will continue to buy their products.



Here's a pic of the modified cats and where they hang at now



The next day after work I started on the front and continued onto Saturday working on the rear of the car. Theres a story of an hour long freak out when I realized I drove off the night before to test the front fitment with the OEM wheel lock still on a rear lugnut and having to take the lug nuts off sans lock but we'll leave that for later

After adjusting the rear camber and toe I lowered the car down for the first test to see if it would be able to get out of my garage. I was pessimistic but my roommate amped me up and off we went!

Backing out slowly...



Then a moment of PURE JOY when I got it out with much less scrubbing than I anticipated!!!



Don't get me wrong it scrubs backing out, I can see bits of undercoating on the garage floor and it doesn't make the best noises but hey, #staticlyfe

Needless to say driving the car for the first time complete put the biggest smile on my face. All the frustration and setbacks since March completely disappeared in the boom of that Borla. The rear was scrubbing some so back in the garage it went to raise the rear about 8mm and max out the camber in the front.



Yesterday on the highway coming from a friends cookout I even had a guy ask me if I'd sell it!









Put plenty of miles on over the weekend seeing if any issues would arise, the exhaust rattles some when the idle is really low at a stoplight so thats something I need to look into. Also not sure if you can tell or not but the front fitment is pretty bad, I need to get a bigger tire on there. I can't lower it anymore and still be drivable so this weekend I may head to the tire shop and figure out a 40 series size to throw on there to fill in some of that gap.

Also I promise to get better pics of it not in my driveway

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Decided to pull the trigger on some bigger tires in the front to fill in the fender gap

Waiting in line to get the tires put on



Went with 235/40 Nankang NS20, not super happy with the way they stretched. I didn't think it'd stay so bulbous. Went with a 235 since Nankangs are known to run small, whenever these wear out I'll prob try to get a 225 tire that runs true on there to see what the difference will be.



On the rack finally getting an alignment, got the rears at 6.5 deg and the fronts at 3.2. Passenger front is still at 1.4, bushing in the lower control arm must be trashed cause the alignment guy couldn't get the camber bolt to do anything. Probably buy a used lower control arm and throw it on there.

Turned out to be a longer day than anticipated so I had to stop on the way home to grab some grub.



Happy for the most part but definitely need to get that new lower control arm on, passenger side scrubs constantly. Would really like to get a set of NRCA's so I can be 6 deg all around and drop the front some, not sure I can afford it though since the only ones available so far are crazy expensive.