Aftermarket Wheels and suspensions for Xi
03-30-2010, 02:05 PM
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Jay, how do you have your V3's set (height, stiffness, etc), and are you happy with the ride?
By the way, how hard is it to adjust ride height and stiffness? Do you have to take the wheels off for both? My only experience is with d-specs on my G35, and you could adjust the stiffness from the top without taking the wheels off.
Just curious...
By the way, how hard is it to adjust ride height and stiffness? Do you have to take the wheels off for both? My only experience is with d-specs on my G35, and you could adjust the stiffness from the top without taking the wheels off.
Just curious...
03-30-2010, 07:27 PM
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Jay, how do you have your V3's set (height, stiffness, etc), and are you happy with the ride?
By the way, how hard is it to adjust ride height and stiffness? Do you have to take the wheels off for both? My only experience is with d-specs on my G35, and you could adjust the stiffness from the top without taking the wheels off.
Just curious...
By the way, how hard is it to adjust ride height and stiffness? Do you have to take the wheels off for both? My only experience is with d-specs on my G35, and you could adjust the stiffness from the top without taking the wheels off.
Just curious...
Will post pics and feedback once their on the car!
03-31-2010, 04:43 AM
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Well, I'm an idiot! 
We just had a discussion about you waiting patiently for yours - in fact it's only 1 page back! Are they on backorder - you'd think they'd have regular stock?
We just had a discussion about you waiting patiently for yours - in fact it's only 1 page back! Are they on backorder - you'd think they'd have regular stock?
I haven't received them yet. They are still being built by KW. I should have them in another 2 weeks hopefully. Not going for the slammed look as i drive almost 650 miles a week. Going to go with a finger or two gap. Also i will be setting them to just slightly softer than what KW recommends so i can get a little longer life out of them.
Will post pics and feedback once their on the car!
Will post pics and feedback once their on the car!
04-05-2010, 12:51 PM
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Do you think you have space to run ET 30 on the front?
It came up earlier in the thread that 30's should fit the front, but it's a pretty aggressive setup. On the flipside, going with ET 30 on the front opens up a bunch of possibilities with other rim makers. From my stock 18's (8.5 with ET43), the tirerack calculator says I gain 7mm on the strut side and I ned 19 mm extra on the outside.
With the ET 35 that you're running, you gain 2mm on the strut side, and require 14mm on the outside.
Does it look like you could push the wheels out another 5mm and be ok? I do plan on lowering the car with KW V3's.
It came up earlier in the thread that 30's should fit the front, but it's a pretty aggressive setup. On the flipside, going with ET 30 on the front opens up a bunch of possibilities with other rim makers. From my stock 18's (8.5 with ET43), the tirerack calculator says I gain 7mm on the strut side and I ned 19 mm extra on the outside.
With the ET 35 that you're running, you gain 2mm on the strut side, and require 14mm on the outside.
Does it look like you could push the wheels out another 5mm and be ok? I do plan on lowering the car with KW V3's.
04-05-2010, 01:05 PM
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Do you think you have space to run ET 30 on the front?
It came up earlier in the thread that 30's should fit the front, but it's a pretty aggressive setup. On the flipside, going with ET 30 on the front opens up a bunch of possibilities with other rim makers. From my stock 18's (8.5 with ET43), the tirerack calculator says I gain 7mm on the strut side and I ned 19 mm extra on the outside.
With the ET 35 that you're running, you gain 2mm on the strut side, and require 14mm on the outside.
Does it look like you could push the wheels out another 5mm and be ok? I do plan on lowering the car with KW V3's.
It came up earlier in the thread that 30's should fit the front, but it's a pretty aggressive setup. On the flipside, going with ET 30 on the front opens up a bunch of possibilities with other rim makers. From my stock 18's (8.5 with ET43), the tirerack calculator says I gain 7mm on the strut side and I ned 19 mm extra on the outside.
With the ET 35 that you're running, you gain 2mm on the strut side, and require 14mm on the outside.
Does it look like you could push the wheels out another 5mm and be ok? I do plan on lowering the car with KW V3's.
04-05-2010, 01:11 PM
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Are you sure? AFAIK Miro 346 only available ET35 for the front & few choices such as ET33 rear aside from ET40 ... the back of the spokes should have the stamp.
04-05-2010, 03:09 PM
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My guess is that JeRZee has the 35's, but is going to throw on the 5 mm spacers to see if an effective 30 will fit - he probably meant to write 35, but wrote 30 instead.
JeRZee, thanks for checking this out for us!!
JeRZee, thanks for checking this out for us!!
