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Pearl '92 LS-L 179K (Historic 1st 5-speed SVX) Mods: 5-speed, 4.11's, Group-N motor mounts, dual Magnaflows, cone air filter, Kenwood MP-228 CD/Receiver, white-faced gauges, '97 grill, custom window tinting. Ebony Mica '92 LS 80K Oct 2002 - Dec 2004: Victim of theft. She served me well. You can tell the lack of craftsmanship by the wrinkles in the duct tape. |
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I got the strut from Subaru Parts.com. I just got a single strut and had it overnighted. The only problem is the guy who said he'd do it for me today, couldn't. So I won't have the strut intsalled until Monday now. My question is. Do you think its alright to put the new wheels on the back. And keep the old wheels on the front. I'm only going to drive it abou 5 miles total on monday to get the strut on and the alignment. Then I will put the new wheels on the front. I just want to put the wheels on now, to see what the look like. The new ones are 18's and the ones on the front are the oem 16's.
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wheel size isn't important, but rolling radius of the tire is VERY important.
here's how to set it up regardless of what a tire guy tells you: set EITHER the front, or back, tires at the pressure you want. then adjust the air pressure in the tires at the other end so the distance from ground to the middle of the wheel is the same. So in my car with 225X50X16 Fulda tires I have the back set at 30PSI. The I adjusted air pressure in the front until the distance measured at the middle was the same. Turned out I need 41PSI in front. If you really wanted to be up-tight about it, you could chalk mark the tires and adjust pressure until they rolled the same number of revolutions (in a straight line of course). The point of all this is to not put pressure on the AWD section from trying to drive wheel/tires of different rolling diameter - and that's all that matters, not width or wheel size, or even tire wear. The Subaru recommended tire pressures are for the OEM tires. The stiffness of another brand/type aftermarket tire might be enough to render their recommendation faulty (on my tire brand it IS). |
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I got my car from the acura dealership, by Gilboy. They moved now to the auto mile. I was looking for a new car and saw it sitting there, I wasnt even going to stop about it b/c i thought it was going to be alot of money. I went car shopping all day then my boyfriend decided to call the dealer and find out how much it was. It was resonable, so I test drove it and loved it. I put a down payment on it and came back to the next day to get it.
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Mychailo :: 2006 Silver Mitsubishi Evolution 9, E85, 34 psi peak, 425wtq/505whp DJ :: 1995 Laguna Blue SVX L AWD 5MT (sold) Visit my locker SVX Mods: ND iridium spark plugs, Impreza RS fpr, afr tuned to 13.2:1 using a custom MAF bypass, custom exhaust, WRX 5MT w/ STi RA 1st-4th gear & stock WRX 5th gear, Exedy 13 lb flywheel & Sport Clutch, STi Group N tranny & engine mounts, urethane spacers in rear subframe, rear diff mounts, and pitch stopper, SVX Sport Strut Springs (185f/150r), custom 19 mm rear swaybar, urethane swaybar mounts, Rota Torque 17x8", 225/45-17 Proxes 4 tires, Axxis Deluxe Plus organic brake pads. |
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