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Originally Posted by alkemyst
I work 12 hours a day? hmmm don't think so....I work a fairly loose 9-5, 1 hour lunch type deal. I have an office, I pretty much come and go as I need to here. I am a professional, not a worker bee. The point of my education was I can do research. I tried to research this but there is a lot of bogus info. There is another thread with the same assh0les here and a guy with SSR's he just bought in the wrong size due to coming to the wrong conclusions based on searching and advice here.
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I am sure you can do the research, anyone can, but your problem is you don't know what to do with it. Do you think we are all on crack and that we are making this stuff up. I posted 3 links to each wheel width you wanted. You should be able to get a general idea on offset. From that you have to guess whats best for you. The only way to find the absolute perfect offset is to buying each and every offset and test fit them at your settings. I showed you 10.5s on Ace's car and you started laughing. You obviously don't have enough thinking power to figure out that it won't fit w/o rolling and pulling or lots of camber, or crazy stretched tires. You never posted what you plan on having you just are looking for every person with coilovers and 17x9 17x8 or 17x10.5 wheels to show up in this thread with diagrams on how they fit.
With the other thread of the guy that bought SSRs, he found the info, but just like you couldnt figure it out. He did not get thoses sizes from here, he got it from where he bought them. Don't blame his choice on us when he clearly stated that he got his choice elswhere.
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Originally Posted by alkemyst
For the record I am basically positive you have nothing good to show for anything, just an armchair expert talking about the day his big check comes in and he can actually buy something. You just leave droppings galore and occasionally give y0 that's so JDM tite shout outs on things very extreme...which is fine, but most of us are probably trying to build great street cars, not banged up canyon runners. Not that anything is wrong with the latter....I do plan on having a weekend only vehicle myself...just that I have no desire to have that be my daily driver as well.
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It's easy to be positive when you are blind to what we are complaining about. I do spend my money on my car, but I actually drive my car. Its easy to have soo much money that all you do is buy stuff that other people tell you to buy. I actually spend time trying to figure out what I need after I drive my car. I actually use my car for more than a trophy, it has been to every drift event in my area, not much but I work with ClubFR to bring more. I prefer not to buy thousands of dollars in parts in a car then not know what to do with it. My car is not a banged up canyon runner and is perfectly comfortable for a daily driver. With all your money I am suprised you don't have more than one car.
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Originally Posted by alkemyst
I am able to have as MUCH freetime as I want. I just choose to spend it elsewhere. The point where you are so wrong is I, like other's, have searched. The information is not that clear unless 18x9+7 and 18x10+11 is the choice and I don't see many running that, just armchair racing again.
It's not about being lazy either...I understand searching and researching things first and then posting....hell my website was a lot of work and I really got zero input yet the thing is getting tons of hits. There is only so much time in a day and you have to pick the battles you enter.
Just because 100, 1000, 10000 posts come up on something, it doesn't mean it's applicable. There is very little on S14's and very little given as far as the complete picture (offset, tire size, width, fender mods/problems, coilover clearance, etc).
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There is plenty of info on S14s, S14 owners seem to chose those sizes a lot more. Mainly becuase S13 owners are 4 lug. If you look people do post thier tire size, fender mods are easy to see. Rolling might not be but what does that matter, it just looks flusher without damaging anything. If they rubbed coilovers they would not be driving on them. If you need more info like an exact measurement you could PM them. The info is out there, glad you realize that, now use it next time.
Thanks for making the website, never said it was useless, makes things a lot easier for people looking to buy coilovers.
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Originally Posted by alkemyst
As far as seeing the same stuff over and over, I hate to tell you this but that is the way a discussion forum dedicated to a single item is. You are going to have only so many things (coilovers, turbos, headers, brakes, wheels) and then each has a lot of variety. Like the HE's can cause problems other coilovers don't with tire clearance.
Best advice you can get and with 4k posts you really already know is that each post here is not always directed at you for comment. Your attitude is the same that drives those that want to burn books, their weak little minds cannot keep them from avoiding them on their own.
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The point we are trying to make is that wheels choice is easy, especially when dealing with 17s. It will more than likely clear big brakes. There are plenty of different offsets posted with tire size out there. You have to learn to think for yourself.
And even if you were going to make a post about it, you could have been a lot more specific as to what you want. I have asked you numerous times what kind of wheels, what kind of brakes do you plan on running, what tire size do you want. What alignment settings do you plan on running? What do you plan on doing with the car (but the way you mention street car it seems as if it will never make it to a track). You know the variables but you want us to read your mind and figure out what mods you have, then tell you that this and that fits. You will never get an exact answer wutgiyt give a detailed question.
Either way we will answer your question in the same manner that those pictures answer your question, it is just that I have seen most of those posts and put together an understanding on how certain wehels will fit.
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