FD\'s with stance!

[BenLewisMav]

FD\'S WITH STANCE! - PLEASE KEEP WORDS ON THIS THREAD MINIMAL!
If you want to discuss stuff (coilover settings, camber, etc) please post here; http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63212

So there seems to be a lot more people now on the forum that are concerned with wheel offset and ride height (aka \'stance\')... :Thumbsup!

Just incase you don\'t know what \'stance\' actually is (-except a trendy buzz-word), check out HellaFlush for some -often extreme- examples.

So let see some pics!

ENVYD\'s Orange beast


Mattywhitt\'s Red FD;


Christoffer\'s swede FD;


My banana -before \'track-spec\' 17\'s and ride height!;



SiH\'s on Panasports (could do with going a bit lower - but still mint);


SiH\'s on MS-01\'s :cheers (the only 10j\' ms-01 ever?!);



Mark Riccioni\'s (Max Power mag) old satin black beast;



And Ricci\'s beast before satin vinyl + track-inspired bits;

[ENVYD]

new stance
 
wheel: 17x9.5 et12 + 10mm spacer = et2
rubber: 235/45/17R, 225/45/17F
 

[Speedworks]

Mine

93 Montego blue R1 Touring Euro spec

9,5x18 Rota Torquedrifts Offset 35 all around
Koni yellow shocks with Ground Controls/eibach coilover kit. Customized with additional Eibach perch springs. No fender work

Fr: 235/35/18

Rr: 255/40/18

Current mods in progress. GT40R single conversion and 99 spec front

:wiggle

[Swanny_UK]

Got stance, or a little too conservative?

[dthebuk]

witha bit of luck, mind will be on here after easter

[rickw06]

18 x 11 et 0:yes
 

[batman]

the silver and the orange fd are the only ones what id call stance think this is turning into an fd picture thread lol

[dthebuk]

i\'d say that stance is more about the angle that the car sits and the difference in wheel offests at than the wheel fitment in terms of how close it is to the arch and stretch.

In which case the black fd with green wheels before it went stealth is the winner and i reckon sih\'s white one is very close behind. and the yellow one might have it, but you cant really tell from the picture.

notice, the main car with stance are the ones without lairy bodykits

[nuki]

18 x 11 et 0:yes
 

What wheels are these? Also how hard would it be to achieve this wheel install on an FD?
thanks.

[ENVYD]

i\'d say that stance is more about the angle that the car sits and the difference in wheel offests at than the wheel fitment in terms of how close it is to the arch and stretch.
 
In which case the black fd with green wheels before it went stealth is the winner and i reckon sih\'s white one is very close behind. and the yellow one might have it, but you cant really tell from the picture.
 
notice, the main car with stance are the ones without lairy bodykits

 
see, i would say the black FD has no stance, low with (i am sure) 18" wheels and skinny rubbers with spacers on the back and week offset on the front.
 
also sih\'s rex, would say with the panspeed alloys, it looks to high, and with the ms-01\'s they dont seem to have a good offset at front and from a stright on view you will not be able to see the wheels
 
but thats just my view!

[neil_jdmr]

Anything bigger than 17\'s is on stilts imo
 

[BenLewisMav]

the silver and the orange fd are the only ones what id call stance think this is turning into an fd picture thread lol

Heres Hellaflush\'s definition of Stance
http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009/11/13/guestblog-mark-arcenal-gt-gt-hellaflush-the-definition.aspx;

Mexi: When the offset of the wheels are off by a lot and are poking out of the fender. You see this a lot on low riders, lots of new 240 and ae86 owners, sometimes boro car owners in japan, and on 1970\'s vans for some odd reason.

Flush: Perfect Offset. Lowered but not slammed. Most people in our community refer to these as daily drivers. About a half inch fender to tire gap. Lots of drifters are flush just cause any lower,  you\'ll be dragging body kit as seen on Matt Powers and Mad Mike in his RX8, which we\'ll use to defined the term Hellaflush.

Almost: is exactly that, Almost. Almost perfect offset. Almost the perfect ride height. Super close but not quite there yet.

Hellaflush: Perfect Offset, Super Slammed and Driveable. Most owners scrape over everything and it doesn\'t bother them. Its a lifestyle decision that many people don\'t want to get out of and conform to.

Tucked: Seen on a lot of VIP and bagged cars.


So by definition I would say most of these are Flush, with a couple that are maybe \'Almost\'

[ENVYD]

i would say i am/was flush, going ito hella, as i will have to watch out for small pop holes lol!

[SiH]

I\'m with Ben here - Stance is a combo of so many things - and good stance is never practical. That\'s not what it\'s about.

I\'m flattered with the piccies of mine being included, but I wouldn\'t say it\'s got stance The Panasports were almost perfect offset, but as said, the car sits too high. The MS01s\'s look a lot better for some reason, as they fill the arches more, but the ride height is still the same. It\'s going to be a similar story on the new hoops as well. Until I sort the ride height with height adjustable suspension, it won\'t have the stance I want.

It\'s subjective too - to me stance is a combo of ride height, tye width and profile, rim width, and offset. I personally don\'t like to see too much of the tyre chopped by the arch, but I love a bit of poke (fnarr). I\'d uploaded a load of piccies for this thread but PB failed hard on me and I couldn\'t be arsed to do it again.

There are deffo cars in this thread that I\'d say don\'t have \'stance\', but that\'s just me. For me it\'s cars like Chester\'s old black FD, Christoffer\'s, and Mark\'s that really push my buttons.

I think this thread needs a primary rule: Don\'t put up photos of your own car - it\'s a little conceited

And for all the haters - yeah, a car that sits really well is a compromise, but isn\'t everything? My solution is simple: 2 sets of wheels

[ENVYD]

I belive what your saying is true, that\'s why I am getting a range of difo sized spacers and always adjusting my ride hight!
And the moment with the 10mm spacers on ther back, its only the tread pattern that is under the arch as I hate it when all you can see is the rim! My next shot is going to be 15mm spacers on rear making my ET -2 so that should be a fair bit of poke!

Plus I only added picks as someone else did first, amd just showing change from the original piccy!

I am also not botherd about how easy the car is to drive either, that\'s why I want a unpractical good stance! If a fook the car doing so, I will just have to fix it! Lucky for me I can do that myself! Would be a diffo case all together if I could not do the work!