510freak Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Says the guy that used to drive Ford explorer SUV.. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :w00t: 1 Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 WOW. that is some of the scariest back yard engineering I have ever seen. Someone go park that at Walmart where it belongs. With any luck it will be stolen! Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 With any luck it will be stolen! Or destroyed by its own horridness Quote Link to comment
510freak Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Or destroyed by its own horridness I think it was before the flush started Quote Link to comment
freetheoranges Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 How would one do this to a dime? Quote Link to comment
shacks510 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 How would one do this to a dime?Unless you're living in Thailand, don't even think about doing that to a dime. Quote Link to comment
Fat510 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 ]2eDeYe" post="1148494" timestamp="1412005003"] that would be wicked if the wheels were under the car Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 How would one do this to a dime? Easy. Every dime that has ever been lowered does this automatically. You can't not camber a dime when lowering. The question is "How can anyone who lowers a dime not know how to do it right?" Quote Link to comment
smoke Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 , flatbillers, :rofl: Ah....the new version of the dunce cap. 4 Quote Link to comment
paradime Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 The evolution... or should we say de-evolution of Camber as Cool. Here's the thought process behind this phenomenon; Lowriders are cool, I want to lower my VW bug so I can be cool too. Holy shit, look what it did to my wheel. Oh well, this is the price I must pay to be low and therefore cool. Kid in a Honda Civic sees the dub roll by; Holy shit, look what that VW's wheels are doing. I want to be cool like him, because massive camber is cool. An interesting thing to note here. This idea of massive camber as cool simply stems from an otherwise unwanted byproduct of slamming certain cars with independent rear suspensions. aka the tail wagging the dog. Quote Link to comment
shacks510 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 The excessive camber fad will die out soon enough. I have a little bit of stock camber in the rear but that's it. Quote Link to comment
yellowdatsun Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Good, that shits frickin stupid anyways. Automakers spend a shitload of time using really espensive machines, to get every little thing right so your car can handle well.Then someone takes the vehicle that far from it's original design, it's going to handle like crap. And not just crap for the driver, but dangerous for the rest of the driving community. A little camber on a street car is fine, and a little more on a track car is fine, but this shit on the streets needs to stop. Quote Link to comment
smoke Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 The evolution... or should we say de-evolution of Camber as Cool. Here's the thought process behind this phenomenon; Lowriders are cool, I want to lower my VW bug so I can be cool too. Holy shit, look what it did to my wheel. Oh well, this is the price I must pay to be low and therefore cool. Kid in a Honda Civic sees the dub roll by; Holy shit, look what that VW's wheels are doing. I want to be cool like him, because massive camber is cool. An interesting thing to note here. This idea of massive camber as cool simply stems from an otherwise unwanted byproduct of slamming certain cars with independent rear suspensions. aka the tail wagging the dog. it's the swing axle cars that are really goofy when dropped, the irs cars (after 68) you can drop down without it being too bad and many guys go way out of their way to not have neg camber. Of course, on the front of a beam car, the only way you're going to get goofy camber from lowering it would be if you have something bent. Yeah, I'm old and all, but I just can't see how having a car that looks busted is cool, then again, when I was in school, only the special ed kids had a flat bill on their hat, because they got it off the shelf and shoved it on their mellon, without knowing any better. 1 Quote Link to comment
bananahamuck Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 i remember when i was a little kid, my older brother drove a 4door 57 chevy 210 (painted Weyerhaeuser yellow as my dad knew a guy in the paint shop) that had to be jacked up 3-4 feet in the air to fit the Posi-trac 60 series polyesters,,, bro.. That thing used to literally bounce down the hiway .. He and his friends all did it ,, most of them lived . I think like it or hate it it boils down to,, everybody has got their own trip ,, i would rather the kids today learn to drive a crazy ass hoopty ,, than be a what is considered normal and never enjoy being weird . 2 Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 I think drag cars went through a short period of having the front ends like a foot higher than the rear. Street cars in my town like that were a dime a dozen. I think the idea was weight transfer to the back on hard launches. The trouble was it made the car very unstable. By the time I was driving it had reversed and a shackle kit to raise the rear was the 'in' thing along with 'wide oval' tires on chrome reverse rims. 1 Quote Link to comment
Guest Rick-rat Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 They police don't need camber gauges, can just use (gaydar) for that ugly look :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 My 'rule of thumb' is if you can see camber it's too much. 1 Quote Link to comment
paradime Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 I think like it or hate it it boils down to,, everybody has got their own trip ,, i would rather the kids today learn to drive a crazy ass hoopty ,, than be a what is considered normal and never enjoy being weird . I support Weird>Normal any day. Theme of my life actually. I would rether my kids drive a car that was show>go. Simply because I know what I did with a fast car. That was way more dangerous than a camber monkey clown car that can't get out of it's own way. 1 Quote Link to comment
bananahamuck Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 By the time I was driving it had reversed and a shackle kit to raise the rear was the 'in' thing along with 'wide oval' tires on chrome reverse rims. That was the end i was referring too,, i think my brother had at least 6 inch shackles,,,,,, at least... and air shocks from hell . :rofl: Quote Link to comment
smoke Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 I think most of us lived because we KNEW our cars were a pile of shit and drove them accordingly. 4 Quote Link to comment
Mattndew76 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Idiocracy became reality Quote Link to comment
paradime Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Reality is subjective, BTW, Welcome to Costco, I love you. 2 Quote Link to comment
paradime Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Smoke, I was that guy who thought his pile of shit was the Millennium Falcon and drove it un-accordingly. I have no idea why I'm still here. Quote Link to comment
tr8er Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Yeah. My moms Corsica might as well have been a Lamborghinni how I drove it. 1 Quote Link to comment
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