A thought on "stance"

[James Crivellone]

Your MT1 is perfect daily ride height, if it was a weekend garage queen it would look ten times better a bit lower with some vintage proper BBS RS. Now you can say I am wrong etc. That is what the amazing thing about cars...they are personal and reflect the owners style.

I agree on the wheels, although if I went with RS's or whatever they would have a proper tire with zero stretch whatesoever.

On the front being lower? Really? ten times better? I just stared at my car for a few moments and I think it would look terrible. I don't understand tucking front tire on a street car.

[Onizukachan]

^ what a bunch of fags over there at bf.c

I lurk there now that I have a 5 but wish there was another active e34 forum!

ah, the homophobia...

the place certainly went downhill since i sold the touring and a lot of the OG's also departed 3 or so years ago.
but if you have serious questions, just ask. i still remember quite a lot, and all my DIYs and FAQ are still up.


some of the stance works cars are nice some of the classics that are lowered on larger diameter wheels but pretty stock bodies are appealing to me, most i do not care for personally, even considering I was a mini trucker back when there really was no adjustable suspensions and static drops with 1" of clearance were "IT". Never liked stretched tires and "hell flush" fitments myself, been there, done that 20 years ago.

hell, you could even say my 74 CB MGB was "stanced" back on enkei 8 spokes in the late 90s if under 2" of ground clearance , tucking rim, classic wheels (flush enough to require cutting out the fender lips) etc are the qualifiers.
personally I was just pushing the boundaries of practicality and possibility on that chassis at the time.

[Rsully70sev]

Stance is the new rice.

You're an idiot, get out.

[Vivek]

Stance is the new rice.

You can't just say that without an argument to back it up...how are the two similar? Last time I checked properly widened and flared fenders didn't look the same as an unpainted generic body kit.

[tooslow]

Stance is the new rice.

[ZekeTheSneak]

Look I'm off roading. I drive this baby errrywhere with no problem

[ZekeTheSneak]

So far the arguments I'm seeing against stance are:
-looks dumb
-doesn't handle good
-undriveable

Looks are subjective, so I won't touch on that.

Doesn't handle good, compared to what? I'll admit, there are people that throw a cheap set of coils on and don't even align the car after, but that's not to say that the car can't handle well. Most all of the good quality coilovers out there will likely out handle stock suspensions, even when lowered to the point of "stance". Granted, it's not the best possible handling setup, but they are driving on the street after all. In an e30's case, I would put money on stretched tires handling better than the stock 195/60's.

Undriveable, we seem to get around ok ;) granted speed bumps aren't the most fun thing in the world, but I have driven my car over 30,000 miles all up and down the east coast with less than an inch of ground clearance, I wouldn't consider that undriveable. Bagged people have it even better.

Couldn't agree more, Sucks to roll hard.

[randomsv650]

stance has always been "in." I think its just blown up on the interweb with places like stanceworks and the fit garage etc. When i was in highschool, it was all aobut lowered pickup trucks, so thats what i was into!

Hot Rod guys have been doing the stance thing forever though. My dad's '65 GTO was tuckin' tire and still handled well. Our neighbors '32 ford was on the ground. These guys have been doing this stuff forever.

Yes, i really dont understand the stretched tire, "sick lip" mentality, but i also dont understand why people thing a '93 civic hatchback deserves $1500 BBS rims and a turbo kit, but who the hell cares?

The pics above are a major win, though!

[irish44j]

compared to me, almost everyone on this forum is "stanced" :/

lol

street....with a full set of heavy wheels/tires in the trunk:


hard braking and still wheel gap!


chillin


flossin....

[FunfGan]

I actually realized that after posting those. Man, the Shak's looked good, but I did that whole car wrong ahahah.

[lambo]

Your car made such a transformation <3 <3

[FunfGan]

I'll just leave this here.
From stanceworks...

The point that covers this has been said many times; any type of car style is going to draw idiots. How about you link the thread, and see how much that guy was called out and insulted by almost every member. I know that wasn't your point in doing so, but I want to clear that up.


Also, this is how my old setup looked. Now, the front poked too much for me, but I auto-crossed on this setup and won my class. Again, is it optimal? No. Was it better than stock? Yep. Beat my friend on H&R's and 225/45 Hankooks as well.






And oh hey, somebody said tucking tire front and back is bad? :P

[Mr_Tripp]

What happened to you guys, the way I learned it was a real car enthusiast respected other cars for the amount of work and attention to detail the owner put in. Not the direction you chose to take with styling

[AirplaneBuilder]

i'm 23 and i don't understand dubstep either.

gtfo

+1

[RUFFLZ]

I think banderson's sig wraps up this dispute the best.

"I might get crucified for this but, I honestly believe that people who hate on other automotive sub-cultures are not real car fans."
- Paddy McGrath via Speedhunters.com.

tybg