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nice rims good see a different style..... remember the pics!!!

Quick phone pic for you all. Rims and tyres (275/70/17) are fitted with no lift at this point and am getting away with it on the street. Had to give the lower corner of the bumper a little bit of love with the angle grinder at the tyre place but nothign major. Should be sweet with a little lift. Offset with tyre size is ideal Tyre tread is just inside the flares. Bulging siewall is slightly outside but not likely to draw attention.

Nice .........

I like your rims.

very nice. I reakon if you come up the driveway bit too quick you may touch those front mudflaps.

you should have got a set of chunky muddies with those rims.....would have looked great, not that it doesnt dont get me wrong.

cant wait to see the lift pics.

Am hearing you re the muddies. They certainly look the part. Was very tempted but to honest would have only been purchased for the look, and the price to pay for that is inferior grip, less wear, higher road noise etc etc. So had to be real about it and get a tyre that suits the actual usage of the car. In the past i had a double locked, lifted, V8 powered hilux and used to do all the hardcore bush tracks, but not really into that anymore. This one should get me where I need to go and can always roll the dirtbike off the back for the thrills!!

Bit of lift now done on the front. Now we know where we finished up will be fitting new leaves to the rear tomorrow.



Started out with a car looking like this 3 weeks ago...

Looking good mate.....I like that grill......maybe pwdercoat that rear spoiler black aswell since everything else is black?

mmaaxx wrote:Looking good mate.....I like that grill......maybe pwdercoat that rear spoiler black aswell since everything else is black?

Thanks Maaxx. Is possibly still some more colour coding in the wings. Have a TRD rear bar coming. Then just deciding on a hard or soft rear tonneu cover. That might affect what I do with the rear bar and possibly the side steps, but there might be some powder coating happening. But near enough to finished. Now to find time to get bush in it.

darkside wrote: Now to find time to get bush in it.

Did you mean to get "bush init" or to get it "in the bush" ? 2 very different types of Bushes your talking bout here....just want to make sure which one it is coz if its the wrong one....I dont think you can post pics of that on here.....LOL hahaha

I couldnt help meself

your a real character max, good 4 a laugh darkside your rig is looking tough m8 good work

Maybe a bit of both maaxx...the looks might help get the bush in it and the performance mods might help it in the bush.

That looks tuff as love the wheels, and the grille really suits!! Is that the new trd grille? i would like to get 1 for mine

love the grill & the headlights where do you get a set of those and how much? Looks awesome!!

darkside wrote:Quick phone pic for you all. Rims and tyres (275/70/17) are fitted with no lift at this point and am getting away with it on the street. Had to give the lower corner of the bumper a little bit of love with the angle grinder at the tyre place but nothign major. Should be sweet with a little lift. Offset with tyre size is ideal Tyre tread is just inside the flares. Bulging siewall is slightly outside but not likely to draw attention.

mmaaxx wrote:

darkside wrote: Now to find time to get bush in it.

Did you mean to get "bush init" or to get it "in the bush" ? 2 very different types of Bushes your talking bout here....just want to make sure which one it is coz if its the wrong one....I dont think you can post pics of that on here.....LOL hahaha

I couldnt help meself

Mmaaxx, a bit like getting "into the scrub" or "into a scrubber"?

ha ha ha lmao oh yeah very similar

And lets all hope we dont end up in the mud or up the dusty track....

275x70x17 BFG for the Lux with a 2 inch suspension lift and new xox front and rear bars hopefully no dramas will update soon
On 9inch wheels with 15 mm offset.
Thoughts any one?

gareth99edwards wrote:275x70x17 BFG for the Lux with a 2 inch suspension lift and new xox front and rear bars hopefully no dramas will update soon
On 9inch wheels with 15 mm offset.
Thoughts any one?

Hi gareth99edwards,

How'd you go?
Any dramas with that setup above, just wanted to make sure, I'm about to do the same setup with 0 offset wheels though.

I'm also looking to do the 275/70/17 on a 17x8 wheel around 0 offset, would be interested if anyone has tried this yet.
Only suspension mods thus far is 2" OME lift, currently running 265/65/17 stock wheels and gobs of fender gap

Jimbo868 wrote:I'm also looking to do the 275/70/17 on a 17x8 wheel around 0 offset, would be interested if anyone has tried this yet.
Only suspension mods thus far is 2" OME lift, currently running 265/65/17 stock wheels and gobs of fender gap

Well... if anyone was curious, I got the new wheels and tyres fitted yesterday and they rub a lot on front bumper and wheel well liner