lol your flaps are on the ground! Thats so awesome. I got rear flaps right now and i cant find any fronts, Im pissed my car didnt come with em. I dig your ride, lowered with flaps is the ****!

 

Yeah and my mud guard's dont hit eaither.

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thats crazy...my buddys got an EF hatch thats slammed with mudflads and theyre wearing away

 

Sick dude...what size tires? urs looks like same height...those si's are clean as hell...i need fog lights lol yea thats sick dude way clean

 

well to go any lower youll loose your MAX turning ability! to prevent crushing your fenders and if you have access to a welder just weld on some hardened nuts and use some hardened bolts threaded into it as a BUMP STOP.... that way you can slightly adjust it to go just about to touch the fenders but not quite touch it!

thats what i plan on doing when i swap suspensions from my 99 to my 96. i love it low!
this is how low it can go very easily...
tho the fronts are riding on the bump stops and inner liners are still in the car. so id have to do some modifying to drive that low infront.LOL



and this is how low i have it set to drive daily...



i now have mudflaps on it and had to cut the fronts with a razor blade so that when i drive forwards they wouldnt act like a shovel and try to be rip themselves off

i want to get some oem SI wheels for my 96dx. tho getting some money back from my nice 17s will be tuff..... maybe next year around tax time they will be easier to sell localy. i love them BUT for being slammed i want to have more sidewall tire....

 

LoL! Now you did it!

You made me put the Si rims back on my ride! Here's a snappy...

'99 Si rims - OEM lugs/locks - 195/55-15 ZE-512 - 1.75" front - 1.5" rear - 4" clearance



This is a DD - wouldn't want to go any lower...

 

How does it feel with those "55 tire's,my friend want's to run 195-55-15

Im running 195-50-15.

 

195/55-15 Falken ZE-512s ride like a Caddy (smooth & quiet) if you put enough air in them - I run 50psi - good rolling resistance too for hypermiling! At normal pressures they *feel* mushy, IMHO.

Here's the official site: http://www.falkentire.com/xhtm...ire=5

If you'll notice...

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...and that's no joke! I'll bet they haven't taken back many ZE-512s because of poor ride quality.

On the other hard, I prefer 185/65-14 Pirelli Cinturato tires on lightweight HX rims - very accurate & unforgiving - make my ride *feel* like a go-kart. Just don't take your eyes off the road for too long or you'll be into the median!

Short history of Pirelli Cinturato: http://www.longstonetires.com/...o.php
Sooo... it all depends on what you want...

 

I got a ej and i am tuckin all the tire in the front and back. All i did was roll the fenders, and trimmed the small tab thats inside the front wheel well. I have 195-55-15. I only scrub when i am makin sharp turns.

 

my DC is slammed on work equip knocks with offset ET 10 lol on some streched 195 50's i just pulled my fenders, and rolled them as much as possiable with a baseball bat and removed inner fenderwells and running -4 degree camber all around . looks sick though


daily driving height on the ET10 offset


dumped on the ET10's at -4degree camber and pulled and rolled fenders


my boy dj's EF dumped so hard the front mud flaps are rubbed in half

rite now iam tucking tire just showed the pic above to show the off set and the rolled and pulled fenders


Modified by turbo97coupe at 3:17 PM 11/12/2008


Modified by turbo97coupe at 2:19 PM 11/13/2008

 

What do you think i should air my tire's up to??

195-50-15

For best gas milege and smooth ride?

 

about 5 psi lower the the max psi rating on the side of the tire always works for me thats def not a good psi if u plan on cone killing or doing tqistys or str8 line of coarse but haveing fully inflatted tires does help gas milage and will help the ride quality just shoot for what i run between 5 and 8 psi lower then max rating works perfect for me on and thats on streched tires which are 195/50 Bfg Kdw's on a 7.5 inch rims

 

Keep the 17s man! Stance looks nice the way it is. Well IMO Not many Honda's can pull of that look, but props to you for doing so

 

thanks. i do love those wheels... took me a year to find them and buy them but id like to get some SI wheels so i can have a more comfortable ride....
but if i cannt get 700bucks for the wheels i wont sell them. i spent like 1200bucks on them and babied them since day one. and they are not even that old or show any wear.
ill keep em before i take any less..... heck ill keep em for just car shows.....
i do plan on painting my 96dx this winter, a gunmetal color that should match my 17s close enough....
my project 96dx. 99-00front end swap. (bought the car wrecked infront. so the front end update cost just as much )
and yes it wants dropped
i recovered this wreck from a ricer [racial pejorative] ditch.... tow yard sale after wrecked and never picked up after 30days. sucks for them good for me!



either way i wont be able to buy the SI wheels till tax check time.
im buying them brand new.... im a bit of a cosmetic freak and all used ones i see are curbed.


Modified by addiction2bass at 5:05 PM 11/12/2008

 

Yeah, I agree... sort of...

The Falken ZE-512s say 51psi max on the sidewalls, so 46psi is okay.

The Pirelli Cinturatos say 44psi max and 39psi sucks! I pump them up to 50psi anyway.

Heh!

BTW, that's one of the 'secrets' of getting good FE with a B16...

 

yea oriperly inflatted tire pressure and propperly alinged toe angle helps ALOT for FE

 

Damn did I open a can of worms or what? jesus

 

its honda-tech whatd ya expect lol also added 2 picks of my dc on lowoffset wheels and my boys ef which is stupid dumped go up a few posts to my first post on this thread on page 2 for the pics


Modified by turbo97coupe at 2:46 PM 11/13/2008

 

 

you need to go lower u arent even tucking those 50 series tires at all lol

 

i know...i need coilovers... when i got it i went the cheap route threw some kyb Agx struts an some skunk 2 lowering springs...i just figured everyone else was throwin up pics of their cars with Si wheels that i might as well to... ...lol

 

bring em on it dont hurt i dont mind lol . my white dc i posted up a few posts up i wasnt dumped in that pic either but the tire shot shows its dumped now lol

 

I would never personally sacrifice "tire" for "look." factory is 195/55/15, I perfer 205/50/15's.

And I don't know who the hell recommends running 50psi of air on a passenger car. that's freakin ridiculous. not really sure how SAFE that is either. Most tire manufacturers don't recommend going past 35psi. Some truck and offroad tires can go way higher, but they have a higher ply rating and is set up to run heavier loads and what not. I don't know of any passenger tire to have a high enough ply rating to require 50psi. That would make it ride like a brick and handle even worst. This is just my opinion and I sell tires for a living.

 

were talkin bout fuel economy not handling evidentally the tires the guy was reffering too has a max rating of 51 psi not sure i know all my tires are rated at low 40's for max . ud have to ask him what tires say 51 psi max thats not what this thread s about anyway .... so.

 

Falken Ziex ZE-512 195/55-15

Check it out: http://www.falkentire.com/xhtm...ire=5