View Poll Results: Do you think Vip tuning will get popular here in the states?
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Vip Tuning! (help)
#41
The Opendeck was the only bB I saw that comes with hubcaps. The very same ones we get here minus ugly Scion logos. I think xB should just come with Alloys anyway. Car rides better but every one is cheap to get them.
#42
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i hope this isnt a stupid question, but im going a slightly different route than i had planned with my xB (mild VIP) and have a question for VIP guru's. im getting a set of 17x7 wheels. i dont want to say what just yet, but less than a handfull of people have them. so if i get these 17x7 +25 wheels and am lowered 2" now (coilovers in my future) would it look stupid to run 3 degrees of camber or so even if i dont need it?
#43
it would look ok
the front is easy to do, camber bolts or camber plates
the rear is not so easy
but might be soon, a few companies are getting these products ready for US manufacture and distribution
and next time, try Tread&Butter
the front is easy to do, camber bolts or camber plates
the rear is not so easy
but might be soon, a few companies are getting these products ready for US manufacture and distribution
and next time, try Tread&Butter
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yeah i figured tread and butter after i posted it 4 hours of sleep sucks. but yeah, id need spacers for the rear anyway so i wouldnt mind bolting up some camber plates w/ toe correction.
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#48
Originally Posted by starrwulfe
Originally Posted by Tsuihousha
Hey man, im seriously trying to plan a trip to japan but i dont know where to go or what city to land in and where to stay. I want to visit mostly the automotive scenes there and see the drifters and stuff. I dont speak a word of japanese either so i dont know. Could you possibly help me on ideas on where to stay and stuff like that, because i dont know anyone there either, but i just want to go, its been a dream since i was little. Thanks!
sorry to veer off track for a moment. But seriously-- Id say either Osaka or Tokyo for your first time out. You can't go wrong in either place.
Hey just outta curiosity, what did you major in to get your masters there in japan? cause at this point your my idol! lol
#49
Originally Posted by Tsuihousha
Hey just outta curiosity, what did you major in to get your masters there in japan? cause at this point your my idol! lol
International Journalism, and Japanese were my majors there. The aforementioned broads, booze and cars were my minors.
I just found out over the weekend I passed my Foreign Service exam for the State Dept. I may be back in Japan in another year or so!
I can have 1 car shipped to my posts for free-- That'll be funny, an xB in bB land. police will surely sweat me, "Do____e handle ga hantai gawa ni imasu ka?" (why's the steering wheel on the other side?" Car lovers will love me, "Kakaoi naaa! Yankee bB!" (cool huh! )
#50
Originally Posted by starrwulfe
Originally Posted by Tsuihousha
Hey just outta curiosity, what did you major in to get your masters there in japan? cause at this point your my idol! lol
International Journalism, and Japanese were my majors there. The aforementioned broads, booze and cars were my minors.
I just found out over the weekend I passed my Foreign Service exam for the State Dept. I may be back in Japan in another year or so!
#52
I take pix of everything! Im a photojournalist, remember ;)
I got a few already, just not that many of bBs (unless you count the first 2 I took in this thread)
People there must have thought I was crazy because I'd see a car or train i've never seen before, and go pavarazzi all over it!
I got a few already, just not that many of bBs (unless you count the first 2 I took in this thread)
People there must have thought I was crazy because I'd see a car or train i've never seen before, and go pavarazzi all over it!
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#59
now thats a hot link! It never ceases to amaze me the way they do super widebody kits and swoopy spoilers in fiberglass and polyurathane over there. Wish I knew someone with those skills here for an idea I have (nothing as dramatic as those pix though!)