Going to ACM Tomorrow...

Dannyboy · 03-21-2014, 12:10 PM

...to have them install an H&R touring cup and new strut mounts. They seemed very helpful so far, I called 2 days before my appointment to ask about strut mounts since my car has 77k miles on it. They were able to recommend me a place that can have them to me in a day without extra shipping.
Am I correct in assuming installing the strut mounts shouldn't add to the install time? I figured they would have to xfer those parts anyway.

Anyway, looking forward to getting this done and hope all goes well!

If anybody has any experience with this place, feel free to chime in!

Heres a before pic:

BAL278 · 03-21-2014, 12:21 PM

They are the best in the area hands down, great group of guys and they do incredible work

Dannyboy · 03-21-2014, 12:24 PM

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They are the best in the area hands down, great group of guys and they do incredible work

That's great to hear! I may need some work making my tire sizes work with the drop. Do you know if they do fender rolling? I'm pretty sure I'm going to at least need the rears rolled a bit.

BAL278 · 03-21-2014, 12:34 PM

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That's great to hear! I may need some work making my tire sizes work with the drop. Do you know if they do fender rolling? I'm pretty sure I'm going to at least need the rears rolled a bit.

what are the wheel and tire specs?

Dannyboy · 03-21-2014, 12:46 PM

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what are the wheel and tire specs?

Continental DW 235/40/18 265/35/18 with VB3 18x9.5 et 33 front and 18x9.5 et22 rear. The springs are the H&R touring cup.

BAL278 · 03-21-2014, 12:53 PM

yeah, you're going to run into rubbing issues with that aggressive offset in the back.. you should be ok in the front

Ps was that photo taken in Fair Lawn? Looks just like the townhouses that are right by ACM

_shim · 03-21-2014, 01:16 PM

New strut mounts will make the process go by faster, if anything.

Less downtime having to disassemble your oem struts.

Dannyboy · 03-21-2014, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by BAL278

yeah, you're going to run into rubbing issues with that aggressive offset in the back.. you should be ok in the front

Ps was that photo taken in Fair Lawn? Looks just like the townhouses that are right by ACM

Yeah thats what I was thinking. I was hoping to get the roll done there too.

Thats actually Berkeley heights!

Dannyboy · 03-21-2014, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by _shim

New strut mounts will make the process go by faster, if anything.

Less downtime having to disassemble your oem struts.

Thats good to hear! Thanks!

_shim · 03-21-2014, 02:14 PM

Np.

Dannyboy · 03-22-2014, 04:37 PM

Update:

ACM did a good job. They were pretty busy, but managed to get out of there in 3 hours! I got to hang out with Brutis the pit bull, which made the time go by.

Lots of nice cars in the lot, made my car look like the ugly duckling LOL.

All in all a pretty painless experience, I'll post some after pics in a bit, if anyone is interested.

EuroSpec27 · 03-23-2014, 10:45 AM

ACM FTW!

Dannyboy · 03-23-2014, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Dannyboy

Update:

ACM did a good job. They were pretty busy, but managed to get out of there in 3 hours! I got to hang out with Brutis the pit bull, which made the time go by.

Lots of nice cars in the lot, made my car look like the ugly duckling LOL.

All in all a pretty painless experience, I'll post some after pics in a bit, if anyone is interested.

Update after pic:

_shim · 03-23-2014, 12:16 PM

Good to hear it went well.

Give it a week or two to settle and it'll sit nice.

(Just noticed you have lci headlights btw, cool)

Dannyboy · 03-23-2014, 12:36 PM

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Good to hear it went well.

Give it a week or two to settle and it'll sit nice.

(Just noticed you have lci headlights btw, cool)

Thanks!

Couldn't stand the stock halogens with the orange stripe.

It's already rubbing in the back on big dips, I'm afraid it'll just gets worse as it settles.

I'm heading back to get an alignment done next week, hopefully they can take care of the rubbing. I think I may have to roll the rear fenders.

BAL278 · 03-24-2014, 09:27 AM

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Thanks!

Couldn't stand the stock halogens with the orange stripe.

It's already rubbing in the back on big dips, I'm afraid it'll just gets worse as it settles.

I'm heading back to get an alignment done next week, hopefully they can take care of the rubbing. I think I may have to roll the rear fenders.

At least the stance looks good! maybe with the alignment and a slight fender roll it'll be perfect! you can always take a baseball bat and roll the fenders yourself

Dannyboy · 03-24-2014, 10:13 AM

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At least the stance looks good! maybe with the alignment and a slight fender roll it'll be perfect! you can always take a baseball bat and roll the fenders yourself

I saw that done on you tube!

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