Tein, Enkei, 3M, Duplicolor and TRD!!!...

by **jdsun1** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:18 am

I really like those rims. You cant go wrong with enkei.

by **SleeperSolara** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:21 am

Wow look nice man.

by **gone** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:31 am

looking at the first 2 pix i thought u had black rims til i saw the close up and saw gunmetal.Nice mods ya did looks like u guys were busy!

by **cklinh** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:15 pm

Just thought of something... it's a 1.5" difference between in height with the new rims. I didn't take into account that the new rims are slightly smaller than the stocks...

After some quick math, that's almost another quarter of an inch... so about 1.75 inch drop...

by **cklinh** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:30 pm

Hm... I may be wrong again... looking at the Tein website... the Tein SS lowers from 2-3 inches.

So, I'm assuming that the Teins will settle in a little more. For now, let's just call it a 2-inch drop

by **FreakinJARED** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:00 pm

wow...i'm diggin it man!

by **rollaevo99** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:51 pm

looks good! nice set up!!

by **cklinh** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:08 pm

TheTamago wrote:Tein SS's has an all in 1 setting which is good enough. Hard is better so that the rebound rate is lesser. Soft increases rebound rate. If u can understand, since i'm a Gen1, your weight settings are different from mine but I know exactly wut my front damper settings are which is @ 3 clicks from MAX Hard. Look up your part on Tein's website for the instructions unless you have one on hand for better setting details but I think I got it covered from what I just said.

Tamago,

Just curious, but do you know what your rear settings are? Higher? Lower?

by **WTF??** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:39 pm

daaaam cklinh, you got a shootload done this past weekend while my azz sat around watchin movies

lookin good tho man!

by **TheTamago** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:46 am

cklinh wrote:
TheTamago wrote:Tein SS's has an all in 1 setting which is good enough. Hard is better so that the rebound rate is lesser. Soft increases rebound rate. If u can understand, since i'm a Gen1, your weight settings are different from mine but I know exactly wut my front damper settings are which is @ 3 clicks from MAX Hard. Look up your part on Tein's website for the instructions unless you have one on hand for better setting details but I think I got it covered from what I just said.

Tamago,

Just curious, but do you know what your rear settings are? Higher? Lower?

Sorry, I haven't had time or maybe too lazy to goto Sears and pick up a decent tool box with sockets and a socket wrench to work on the back end to access my rear properly to tweak the settings. For I all I know, my original settings on the front were @ 7/6.. U can find my horror story about the 7/6 in the Gen1 aftermarket forum about my installer issue. I'm guessing my rear might be around those click spots 6 or 7ish maybe more or less from MAX HARD. You're gonna need to test drive a lot to figure out your likeable settings. I just gave a quick test shot at testing at 3 clicks from MAX HARD and well, I just hit the sweet spot on the first try. From what I had reported in my post about my horror story, the installer did ok on the rear settings.

On the height settings, those clamps clearly set the height as I doubt the car would settle down that much unless your damper settings are really gonna stress the damper springs with the crazy bouncing.

http://www.solaraguy.org/viewtopic.php?t=22071 Just a link to my recent pics of my outer Tamago shell

by **NVDIS1** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:08 am

Wow everthing looks great! Keep it up

by **cklinh** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:05 pm

Doh!

I totally forgot that I also removed the "SLE" "V6" and "TOYOTA" black pearl emblems too... yeah, the ones that took so freaking long to put on because I taped off the exact location of the stock ones... Don't have a clear picture of that either.

If the Toyota "cowboy hat" emblem wasn't on a raised surface, I'd remove that too and fill in the holes (I'm very partial to the "Solara" though)...

If anyone has any bright ideas for the "cowboy hat"... I'm listening...

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