I spotted this on the fatlace forums and had posted it on my local Mazda 3 board but after looking at it and looking at it again I decided I should post it here as well. At first I was not a huge fan of the 3 spoke wheels but they really grew on me.
The wheels are Super Advan SA3’s and upfront they are 18×8.5 with an offset of 28et after spacers and out back they are 18×9.5 with an offset of 35. All 4 tires are wrapped in 215/40/18 Federal 595ss tires.
The wheels and ride height give this car a really solid looking stanceI always like how similar the body styling of these cars is to the regular 3I really need to pick up some spacers and dial out the camber on my car for the upcoming seasonClean and to the pointThis car looks very very hungryParting Shot
I probably won’t post again until tomorrow so have a safe New Years Eve everyone and be sure to have a designated driver or use public transportation, I’d like to have all my readers and potential readers make it into the new year uninjured!
Today’s Winter Wednesday pic is pretty much on par with the weather we have been having here in the GTA. Small amounts of accumulation and a lot of slush and gray. I’m not really complaining but it’s not like I am stoked on it either. Anyway this 510 owner decided to have a little fun with the snow on his car.
I like 510s, infact I like them a lot. In a perfect world I would own one of them along with hundreds of other cars, too bad the worlds not perfect. This Banzai flag however is pretty perfect for being made out of snow on the hood of a car, maybe snow hood designs will be a new trend of winter 2010?
That 510 in the background looks like Anth's from buildthreads.. could it be?
Hopefully it’s dry enough today for me to wash my car, it’s filthy…
I first saw this Subaru posted on Noah’s blog but until my friend Dave sent me the link to the picture thread on NASIOC I had not seen any photos of it in action. It’s good to see the owner uses the lift as it would have been a shame for him to build it just to get under the skin of people like myself and the crew over at HellaFlush.
No need to worry about speed bumps......with this much ground clearance you could run over a small animal and not even noticeI bet the HF guys got a chuckle out of thisFlexinMonster truckin!
I respect the owner for going against the grain but it sort of seems like he took his hate from one extreme and went to the other as it looks almost as silly as this.
However I will admit it looks like a lot of fun drive in the mud. Thoughts?
The concept of theme Tuesdays here on Stance Is Everything is simple, every Tuesday I pick a theme and post a collection of vehicles with that theme that meet the stance criteria (modified suspension that suit the vehicles intent). This weeks theme Tuesday topic is: Race Stance
There is a definite breaking point when it comes to stance and when it becomes more of an aesthetic modification over a purely functional one. I have discussed my thoughts on this before so I won’t go into large detail about it again but I feel that as long as the owner is happy other people shouldn’t get too upset. However I think that we can all agree that these cars look great and perform just as great.
This Porsche is looking serious on a set of workse30 m3 touring/dtm cars are works of artPainted wheels and polished lips are nothing newTuckin' front and rear with a super low splitter, gotta love itI swear if any other car had this color I probably wouldn't like itThese Saab's looked a little funny in street trim but down right mean like thisImagine someone running that wing on the street? It would be unacceptable, works on the track thoughTrack flares > Ricer widebodyI like how this class of racing retains little things like the door handles and tri star emblemI'm not the biggest Ferrari fan but I can't hate on thisFlush, low, fastI know a few of my readers are Miata owners and will know way more about this one than meIs it just me or does it look like the one in the rear has a bit of over steer kicking in?I love the early 90s touring series cars always had nice stance and nice center lock wheelsVolvo touring wagons get nothing but loveNo M bumpers or lips hereAnother Volvo this one is getting a little looseSpark it or park it!
Race stance can prove as inspiration for street stance so hopefully some of you wrenching over the winter got some ideas.
Being the holidays I’ve been at my moms place the past few days and therefore away from Stance H.Q. I didn’t have much time to be bouncing from forum to forum and blog to blog looking for new content nor did I feel like cluttering up her computer with photos of cars she won’t appreciate. So I made due with what I had (my iphone and creativity) and figured that perhaps some of you might be interested in my latest model car project that’s been hiding in the depths of my moms basement waiting for me to finish. Hopefully this will be the year I actually finish…
My dad got me into building model cars fairly young since he realized it was a great cheap way to keep me out of his hair for hours at a time. As I got more hobbies and my 1:1 cars started to consume my time I started building less and less and slower and slower. Regardless of how much time I might have I still buy kits that catch my eye and store them away for when little bits of time make themselves available.
This 1955 Chevy Nomad is one of those kits. I chose the Nomad because I’ve never built a wagon before and I liked the fact that this one came with nice (but somewhat over scale) wheels and a nice stance. I figured it would be something I could build fairly easily and ad some custom touches along the way, if I recall it was under 10 bucks too so the price was right.
The very first thing I did to the model once I got it out of the box was chop the top, I decided the stock roof-line was a little to mundane for the wheels and ride height of the car and that a slightly lower top would help it all flow better. This is my first chop top so it’s a cool challenge, I eliminated some pillars and scratch built some others, while I was working on the body I decided to get rid of the door handles and emblems as well.
I've still got a lot of sanding left to do but automotive spot putty is working really wellI like the new roof-line, makes it look a little more aggressive
The interior and chassis are getting normal treatment, with nothing over the top just adding detail where I can and how I can. The brake setup was done with red calipers while the rotors got some detailing so the look cross drilled and slotted. The interior is going to be tan with silver accents once complete, and I am also looking into building, or finding a tank and some hose to simulate an air ride set up but we will see if that actually happens.
I had more or less finished the chassis since the last time I worked on itI used some textured plastic paint I had to simulate undercoating of the floor of the vehicleI spent a while detailing the motor, caliper, and rotors the next kit I build I want it to have photo etched piecesI still have to go in with a fine brush and clean up a lot of the edges of the interior but most of the base colors are downIn reality this car probably could not turnThere is a firewall garnish missing hence the gaping holeWhile I was workin on the Nomad I brought my s10 and highboy down for some repair after falling off shelves
Once the Nomad is done and the s-10 and 32 Ford are fixed back up I plan to get my Bryce Casselman on and shoot some creative shots of all of my slammed models. I’m back at home now so you can expect more 1:1 scale content tomorrow.
Or should I say Happy Holidays? I’ve never been too polictally correct, but I am going to assume that none of my readers are too uptight about which vernacular I use ;). Today’s a day to be spent with family and friends enjoying the spirit of the season so I hope everyone is doing just that. To those of you who have found the time to stop by here today leave a comment and I will send you a free set of S.I.E. url stickers of your choosing. Happy Holidays!
Man I love TransformersI know it's a small gift but it's the best I can do 😛
I’ve been meaning to compile a list of some of my favorite automotive blogs for awhile now and sadly this idea for the ’12 Auto Blogs of Christmas’ hit me after I could have done it for the twelve days leading up to Christmas. But I decided to not let a little thing like time stop me and went ahead and compiled a list of the 12 auto blogs I visit regularly in no particular order.
I’m not really sure how I originally came across Noah’s blog but chances are pretty good that it was via the blog roll of one of the the other eleven blogs posted today. Noah has a diverse hatch fetish that causes him to post cars that I have heard of or seen before in addition to cars I thought no one else liked.
Noah is also a really down to earth person with a big heart who is using his blog as a way to raise money for someone in neeed. Check out the Melissa Project and lend a hand if you can it’s a great cause.
Who else but Noah could find a pic of a sick looking Yaris?
It’s always cool when worlds collide (unless your last name is Costanza) and that’s what happened when I found Full-Lock. Logan and I both ride BMX and love cars, the difference is that unlike me Logan is just as crazy behind the wheel of his car as he is on his bike.
When he’s not sliding his car or blasting airs on his bike you can find Logan writing about awesome cars of all sorts on: Full-Lock.
Slamburglars is a crazy crew out of Santa Barbara who like their cars low and live by the handbook. A few rules from the handbook should give you an idea of what these guys are about: 1. Shock travel is for bitches. 14. We like our girls how we like our cars, HAMMERED. 29. The home of bad taste and poor geometry.
While not for everyone I dig this crew and their blog.
Up-Shift.net is written by the working class car nut for the working class car nut. Written by a group of authors with years of industry experience Up-Shift is the place to visit for industry news, product reviews, and car recommendations.
In 2010 Up-shift is going to launch on a new platform to match their new content (which can currently be found here), personally I am looking forward to the ask an officer column, who else has that?
Ever known a photographer who’s work you can’t seem to get away from? They are just so good that their photos are posted on every local forum you visit? That’s Chris.
Chris is an amazing GTA based automotive photographer who uses his connections in the scene to shoot a unique collection of cars and events. Being winter here in the GTA updates have slowed a little but expect big things this spring.
Chris went out the the 09 Rally of Tall Pines event and true to form took some great shots
Meg is a die hard car girl who happens to be married to a car guy, between the two of they they have three cars two of which belong to her and are big followers of the function follows form school of thought. This doesn’t mean that their cars look bad though, it means is that the cars in their family are equal performers and lookers.
Meg is currently in the middle of a SR20DET swap in her 240 and has promised that when it’s done stance and flush is next on the agenda in the mean time she writes in depth thoughtful posts from her perspective as a female tuner.
The Chronicles is a big, big, reason why I started my blog. I was jealous of the fun it seems like Joe is having with his. Joe noticed something missing in the automotive blog sphere (a Honda/Acura focused blog) and capitalized on it and I am trying to do the same with a stance/gta based blog.
Being a freelance writer for a few Honda publications also allows Joe to do things like go to SEMA, shoot cover cars, and have a large audience diverse audience willing to listen to him talk about Saved By The bell, lucky.
MotorMavens is similar to Up-Shift in that it’s written by a collection of car mavens (connoisseurs). The MotorMavens crew sure do get around since their event coverage and featured cars are at a level that which can only I hope to one day achieve.
They also do an excellent job of combing the internet for unique rides to post in their “webmining” category while I check this blog daily I have yet to see any Canadian content, a bit of a bummer, but hey that’s where I come in.
I don’t really know much about Phil as his blog contains no about page. But from what I can tell from reading his blog and the fact that he named every car in a WTF Friday post without batting an eye is that Phil really knows his cars. His short to the point posts are always a pleasure to read.
Lancia Delta Integrale! Not too many people talk about these, Phil does though
Before I found Buildthreads I used to spend a lot of time hopping from board to board looking for long in depth build threads wishing I had the time and money to do one myself. Now that I have found Build Threads I spend less time looking and more living vicariously through others.
I can relate to Anth in the fact that he’s a guy that just wanted to blog about something he enjoys and the fruits of his labor have paid off since he recently got featured in Performance VW , awesome.
Next to The Chronicles HellaFlush was probably the second biggest influence I had to create this blog, it’s just a really awesome, well designed, well done, and well run blog that posts flushed (and occasionally slammed) cars from all over the internet. Getting mentioned on this blog means a lot to me and I’m proud to say that I have not done it once but twice.
This car is so G, if I was dapper I would drive this
It’s been a long time since I have played any version of Need For Speed but that doesn’t stop me from liking speed hunters. Another combined effort Speed Hunters is similar to Motor Mavens in that it covers “the car culture at large” everything from Rally to Lead Sleds can be found here and if you respect and enjoy the car hobby you will easily lose hours of your day at Speed Hunters. I am hoping to one day be able to contribute to this blog somehow… fingers crossed.
Well that’s it for the 12 blogs of Christmas but that’s hardly it for my favorite Automotive Blogs, I look for new blogs almost daily since each new blog I find helps make S.I.E. better as each inspires and motivates me differently. So expect another post or two like this in the future as I find new blogs everyday.
Have a safe and happy Holidays and if you have a chance drop by tomorrow, it will be worth it 😉
Adrian and Will are two friends (and S.I.E. fans) from Tucson, AZ, Adrian whips a slammed Accord while Will pushes the dropped bug on phone dials I posted in one of the first readers rides. The two of them got together to do a photo shoot sent the snaps my way via twitter. When I asked who’s lower it seemed the topic was up for debate between the two but a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone.
So many good things going on in this picture, I dig the sticker the lower sticker clusterAccords are pretty hot right now and Adrian's is one of the reasons whyAdrian says depending on where you measure from he is lower, Will says he is, looks about even to me I need that boobies sticker, and the cheap wheels one
The concept of theme Tuesdays here on Stance Is Everything is simple, every Tuesday I pick a theme and post a collection of vehicles with that theme that meet the stance criteria (modified suspension that suit the vehicles intent). This weeks theme Tuesday topic is: Pictures with attitude
To me this picture says 'I know you think this is wrong and I don't care'
As soon as I saw this photo I knew that I had a theme for all the cool photos that I had sitting on my hard drive that immediatly stood out to me but I was not sure what capacity to post them in.
All of these photos have great looking cars but what these photos really do is caption the passion and attitude of the car, club, scene or event and cram it down the viewers throat.
Another sparker that took the internet by storm last week, shouts to stanceworks/fluid motor union
Sure his car probably still stinks like burnt rubber but somewhere in there the owner is smilingI love that sticker, doesn't hurt the owner is getting awesomeImagine walking down the street doing some mundane shopping and seeing this?Sure you guys can hop in but my girlfriend gets shotgun, note the rubber chickenThis s2000 is amazing, nah mean?This e30 looks like it's on the hunt for slower vehiclesOne day I have to go to a Stateside minitruck show, these dudes get looseWith this shot I assume she is the owner, you should tooI've always liked M1s so to see a picture of one given er on the track is a treatYou know I have still never seen this in person?Few quick runs then it's off to the grocery store, I love a car that can do bothLooks to me like a lot of fun was had at this shootAlways fun to roll with similar car owners, I'm sure the van owner wonders if he drove onto a race track by mistake
I enjoyed this one, probably going to start collected for ‘Pics with attitude part 2’ tonight.
I’m not really sure where I came across this Mini but I’m glad I did. This Mini is wears a set of CCW rims and wears them quite well. CCW rims have to be one of the more popular wheel choices of 2009, I’ve seen them on almost everything and I’m not mad at that.
I'm not up on my Mini knowledge but I'm sure there are some aftermarket tricks in that bumper What I would do for a rig...
Our tower is bigger!This car looks mean as hell and yet fun as hell at the same time
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