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It's been several months since I posted last, but I had it lowered with the Hotchkiss springs a few weeks back, and I just had Toyo Proxess 4 tires put on yesterday, here's a pic

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and one more pic

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Looks good.. and clean! How do you like the ride with the Hotchkis' so far?

Thanks, just polished it today, just in time for the rain I was surprised at the ride, it actually isn't THAT much different, rides really nice, feels much sportier but not too stiff

Looks great!! I agree the ride isn't that much worse than normal.

Very sweet looking, nice vibe. Just wondering, what kind of rims are those? They look very good on your vibe and i love the tire shine. awesome vibe!

Thanks guys, the rims are 17" Enkei CDR-9 wheels. here's one more pic, I also changed my headlamp and fog lamps to Silverstar super whites.

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the Silverstars are much whiter light than stock

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Quote, originally posted by GT_King »the Silverstars are much whiter light than stockThey are also going to die out on you in like 6-8 months, so don't get too excited about em.Your rims are pretty sweet though, and the car looks really good all cleaned up and shiny.

Quote, originally posted by GT_King »It's been several months since I posted last, but I had it lowered with the Hotchkiss springs a few weeks back, and I just had Toyo Proxess 4 tires put on yesterday, here's a pichow much drop?? did you put a camber kit to put back your wheels straight?look awesome by the way!

It dropped it 2" in the front and 1.5" in the rear, and when I took it to get aligned, they said if I wanted to do a camber kit I could but it didn't seem neccesary.

GT_King, your ride look very sharp and clean.You did great job and keep it up good work...

Wow that painjob looks awesome.

Why do they come from the factory so high?It looks awesome, That's my next major.Did you do it yourself?

For the older people they first marketed it for. They offer factory kit to lower, aswell.

Well, I didn't do all of it myself, I did help though. It's pretty easy actually as long as you have a spring compressor, took 2 hours.

Sweeeeet

Actually yes I did have to have a camber kit installed, drives much better now, was pulling to the right at freeway speeds.

Looks really good! Nice looking Vibe BTW!

Thanks!

What does a camber kit consist of?

Quote, originally posted by 4X4CHICHI »What does a camber kit consist of?U know? I'm not exactly sure, WHAT is actually in a camber kit, I do know that when I lowered it, it took away the ability to align camber and castor on the wheels thus making it pull to the right, so the camber kit was $80 installed plus an alignment, goes real straight now.

Nice lookin ride. The wheels look a little larger than 17" Guess it's just the style

Looks great! What part of PDX are you in?