SLP950's Fit pics/progress thread
 

Or The quest for the ultimate daily driver style wagon!
Stock when I bought it August 2009:
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Much more to come!

Really nice pics!

Great photos! The 2nd last pic is the best!

That's what I was thinking. Great place for some jdm action. lol

Added reflective rim stripes for motorcycle wheels:
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Then painted stock wheels gunmetal with stripe:
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Then 16x6 et42 Mini Cooper wheels:
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Why mini cooper wheels?

I jealous of your lacking front plate but please get a cover for this beauty!

Hey, why not. They fit, and while I don't care for those particular ones, some S-lites would look amazing on a GE. Just too heavy. Swapping across completely different brands is not uncommon in tuning euro cars. Not as respectable to go German->Japanese, but since euro style has hit the JDM crowd so hard with these people into BBS RSs, poke and whatnot - it's okay in my book. Will always be "wannabe," but some of us wanna reliable german car, and that doesn't exist yet.

Couldnt turn them down for the price + fitment, plus with how I painted them they halfway matched the steering wheel!

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Don't worry, I swapped them out pretty quick because I wasn't nuts about them either.

It only snows like that every couple of years or so here so I'm not too worried about it!

More pics:
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Now things start getting better a little: Added dropzone springs for the GD3, and 17x7.5 et32 Falken Hanabis with 205/40-17 Falken Ziex ZE512 Front and 195/40-17 Yokohama S-drives Rear. Check my rainbow lip courtesy of some ebay purchased vinyl:
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And backtracking a bit, 14's do fit on a, um, Fit:
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14x6 et20 Momo with 185/60-14 kumho 732.

I think you meant to say GE8, unless u have another fit...

how come you went with 2 diff tire sizes? are 195's stretched on those 7.5s??

Nope, the springs I used are for a GD3 chassis Fit. Dropzone dosn't make ones for the GE8. They work, the rear is a little too high for my taste still but I solved that problem as you will see later on when I finish posting all my pics up.

As for the two tire sizes, it's a bit of a long story. Basically I was getting some rub when I had them a Mazda 323 that was stupid low. The Falkens were on and I had some mismatched no-name tires on the back. So I thought if 205's clear with a bit of stretch, the 195's should be better!

Nope. Trust me, the yoko s-drives have NO STRETCH compared to Falken ZE 512's.

512's= little bit of stretch
S-drives= no stretch

So here's what came next:
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Stay tuned for more...

Looks great, I can not wait to see your new wheels!

Then I get my wheels on (17x8 et38f, 17x8 et 35r Axis Sport Apex) and new tires (205/40r-17 Falken Ziex ZE512)
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Note the tall-ish rear ride height. That gets fixed soon!

I liked it with the Falken Hanabis best. And the Cooper rims too.

I don't think I could clear 17s, but you're giving me the itch to try :-)

Keep it up, looking like a clean GE...

thats a nice sexy lip on those rear ones...are these custom made? how much did they run?

Im curious, was it your choice to run slightly stretched tires or did u not have a choice because of rubbing?

I recently put spacers on my rears and im finding that with my offset and a full car of people, this was a bad idea lmao. i rub bad on small turns and tiny bumps with 4 people in the car. i might have to just remove the spacers and deal that my rears arent at the fenders....

Nope, not custom made, available anywhere Axis wheels are sold! They were like 160ish apiece, so not super expensive.

I ran the tires stretched because I like the stretched look, Falken approves the 205/40-17 on a 17x8 so it's not like they are stretched a dangerous amount or anything, and I wanted to be sure they wouldn't rub since going from a 6" wide et55 wheel to an 8" ET 38 is such a huge jump!

These are actually for sale now, I'm looking to go wider on my next set!

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This one shows how high the rear still was:
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love the orange color.

looks good. now go lower! :D

nice orange