19" Stock Rays wheels powdercoat project

Phimosis

In the second picture, f you look at the bones at the knee, they are in anterior veiw. The lower leg is in lateral view. For lack of a better term, it is the anterior view, it's just mangled. The lateral view wasn't very good because soft tissue was folded over more soft tissue and it hid the detail.

fly yellow

That looks so much better on the car then I actually thought it would, and +1 rep for helping out a fellow motorcyclist.

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RCZ

I think you have convinced me about the spacers! Car looks great Phi.

joshj808

Those x-rays looks just slightly worse than mine did but i didnt have nearly that much tissue damage. Got hit at an angle by a woman in an SUV on her phone. She put me in a wall and my left leg got trapped between the bike and the wall. Only took 3 surgeries and 1 yr to walk slightly normal again. i got to keep the leg but the ortho surgeon said with was a 50/50 shot for a while there in the trama ward. Also, I had on full gear so nothing else was damaged except for a broken toe, ankle and hand. Helmet took the full brunt of the damage to my noggin. If i hadnt had it on along with my armored jacket i would have had the skin on my head, face, back and chest pealed off. Paints a nice picture! I had tons of good Samaritans like you stopped or stopping for me. People like you make me proud. I thank you for your efforts to helping that guy.


Oh, and the powder coating on the wheels looks friggin awesome.

Phimosis

Got the wheel caps, turn signals and badges back from the pinstriper!

Phimosis

Last video was in the dark. Finally got a day time one.

tbonesteak

Dude car looks great. I can see some copycats emerging soon. Plus rep for you. I admire people that have the type of courage to help others. If there were more people like you in this world, it would be a better place.

rufio11

Car looks good, if I had a Pearl White I would do the same, only make the orange BLUE. About the x-rays, did the tibia go all the way up to his butt? Cause there should only be one bone up that high in the Leg

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Snakebite202

Now this is what tuning is all about - Good job man!

wstar

Nice looking ride man. A little too flashy for me personally, but it looks awesome

I wanted to pick your brain about the tire size setup though. How does the sidewall on the 275/35's look up front on the 9" wheels? And in general, do you think either end (the 275/35 on 9 up front, or the 305/30 on 10 in the rear) are feeling loose in a hard corner, like they would roll over too much?

I'm still debating tires and tire sizes with myself for my upcoming 18x9.5 + 18x10 setup, just looking for insight into how much oversize is doable without affecting the tightness of the car on the road, if you know what I mean. On the conservative end of things I'm looking at 265/35 and 285/35, but you're making me think I can be less conservative if those sizes are working well for you

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Phimosis

I'll post a couple of pictures of the fronts only at the end of this post. A good deal of the ammount of rolling over the edge of a tire you get is determined by your camber. When the car was stock, I would roll over the edge of the 245 front and it would understeer under hard cornering, but the camber was -1.1 degrees. When I lowered it and put sway bars on, I had -2.2 camber and it didn't really roll over the edge, but it would still understeer. It was just too much weight for that compound of tire, car weight and tire width. Then, I went to the 275 width and kept the camber and toe (+.1 degree) the same, the understeer went away. The steering is still very crisp, but it does wander a bit more over pavement grooves. I don't feel any sidewall movement compared to the 245. It's just more grip. Also, the 275 width is still within the recommended range for a 9.0" wheel. The 2010 Camaro uses a 275 rear on a 9.0 inch wheel. The 305 rears are out of the recommended range (10.5" minimum recommneded), but still look fine... no bulging....See page 4 of this thread. I don't feel the rears wander at all either, but I'm running 2.2 camber there too. The car with 305 rear and 275 front is a beast compared to how it was directly before the tire change. I ran the same setup on a 2006 Corvette Z51 and had the same results. Rear tire spin was less, able to get on the throttle in corners earlier and understeer all but went away (hard street driving). That car has 9" front, 10" rear with 245 and 275 Goodyear F1's stock, which I changed out for RE050A's 275 front, 305 rear.

In looking at these pictures, remember that the tires have a recessed bead to save your wheels from curbs. The tread on the 275 is still not a wide as the wheel.











Oh, one last point. You can see how far out on the edge this tire has been scrubbed, and this was after a hard canyon drive yesterday. If you watch in the video below you can see mid corner steering adjustments, but it is because of slip angle, not double apexing. The video doesn't give you the sense of speed, but the slowest point in there is 3,000 rpm in 2nd gear which is 28 mph, despite numerous corners with 15mph recommended speed and with blasts up to 75 mph between corners.

RCZ

Look pretty good sir. + rep on the tire size info.

wstar

Yeah thanks for the info. I'm definitely not going 265 on 9.5's up front then

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BanningZ

Hadn't seen your thread before. Excellent work on the Z. VN!

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