Stanced cars...love 'em or hate 'em?
 

So what is CP's general opinion about stanced cars? Saw my first well executed one in person today and ......(well I will put my opinion in a post)

So what say you gear heads of CP?


Examples of well executed cars below (there are tons of terrible ones. feel free to post them in the thread)

http://www.stancenation.com/wp-conte...14-640x426.jpg

http://www.stancenation.com/wp-conte...10-640x426.jpg

http://media.fastcar.co.uk/wp-conten...4-rotiform.jpg

http://prolifik1.files.wordpress.com...allenger-2.jpg

Depends on the car

Wow, what a ****ing joke. I sincerely hope every one of those idiots rips their oil pan off or gets stuck like a see saw on a neighborhood speed bump.

So, yeah, I think they are ****ing ridiculous.

Not taking that little ****er elk hunting or pulling my motor toys so useless.

Yeah. Not my thing.

Yea, way to much high riding shit on any street to even think about driving something like these.

Ok, my opinion. If they aren't sports cars, I don't really give a shit. They can chew up expensive tires to their hearts delight as long as they're not driving slow in front of me.

If you do this to a sports car, then you deserve to be castrated, electrocuted, water boarded, and then die in an AIDS tree fire.

Also, the Challenger and Charger R/Ts are not sports cars.

Dumb as shit.

Yup. There is ZERO advantage for these idiots to do this except for "style." You **** with the aerodynamics, you ruin your tires and you like like an idiot... all while reducing overall performance.

It's ****ing stupid. It's for dumbass kids.

Would love to see one go over an unmarked speed bump.

It's more suspension geometry. But yea, I agree.

What's kind of ironic is this stuff came from racers. If you slightly increase negative camber, the car will turn better. Going overboard like this is dumb as ****.

The well done ones are done by adults. It is expensive as ****.

Those cars look like they each have four flat tires.

"Went in to the parking garage the wrong way, eh, Bob?"

Why wreck an E46 M3? Bastards!!

Wow. Perfectly good cars ruined.

There was some kid driving one of these during one of the big snow storms we had this winter. He got stuck and bitched about his tires not having enough traction.

****ing love stanced cars.

However, every example you posted is someone going too far. The line between good and bad is thin.

What I like to see is the correct offset rims, right sized tire (little or no stretch/correct dimension) for whatever wheel gap your suspension is set too. Do so you dont have to run way out of camber~


Right:

http://cdn.stanceworks.com/wp-conten...-lozzz-126.jpg
http://www.dieselupload.com/files/1/zr1kit-003.jpg
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7404/21270069.jpg

Wrong:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N3XbN2AsCy...0/mercedes.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...KKjStOXUsyWuZe
http://www.motionautoshow.com/images...d_scion_TC.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/10/amuda2yq.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/10/umepume8.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/10/jusuzama.jpg

You would really say no these?

Cray cray

Do not understand, but I feel ghosts are involved.

Lowered is not stanced. Stanced screws with the camber and offset.

You learn something new everyday

IMO your right examples are lowered and running a higher performance suspension. It doesn't fall into the stanced category until you start messing with the offset and camber.

Just looking at these pictures is making my blood boil, and steam is shooting out of my ears.

The M3 is slightly lowered. Looks ready to run on the track (aside from the awful hood).

The Vette looks like a body kit.

The RX7 is also lowered and probably running coil overs with stock suspension geometry.

In hometeams "right" pictures, I would drive the shit out of the bimmer if they removed that awful hood. Very good looking car.

V8 M3? Who wouldn't drive that?

http://nolegsarms.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/8efc.jpg

She wouldn't.

Well played sir. But....that bitch needs to quit making excuses.


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I think they look better like this:

Yes, those are nice but I'm more of a city kid.

Depending on the car and how extreme. Some of these in the thread are straight up reeruned.

Hmmm. Didn't know that. Now that I know this......it's reeruned

Stanced: To decrease the overall performance and day-to-day livability of a car while simultaneously making it look worse and decreasing its resale value by a considerable margin.

Kids should be putting their effort into driving cars with low mpg.

Even when your in the city the end of the pavement is never that far away.

I don't know much about cars, but this seems like a huge waste of money. At least based on some of the examples I see here.

I guarantee the next thing these morons do is put a hydrolic suspension on them. They are little more than high performance low riders.

http://www.thewordofmatus.com/wp-con...donk-car-2.jpg

I like those "stanced" cars about as much as I like the "Donk" car fad, which is not at all.

Donks...I liked some of the Boxes as long as the tires weren't really huge.

What the **** is wrong with their tires and wheels?

Somebody would pay good money to have their car look like a group of drunk monkeys did the tire change?

Stupid is as stupid does I guess.

Uh, yeah... your opinion on all things is valueless...

You love gay ass full-chest cheesy ass jungle Chiefs tattoos on your chest, as well.

Pretty much everything you think or do, is wrong. Start over.

Would this count as stanced?

http://www.virtualtuning.it/images/p...8_12099_02.jpg

No. It would count as a shitty photoshop though.

This. I detest most body kits. If it doesn't have good lines from the factory, I'm probably not interested in it to begin with.

So you have one?

I'd take a good low rider all day everyday over these pieces of shit.

65 SS Impala with white guts FTMFW

Like this pic but the light blue finish that some of them had.

Wow, that's really stupid looking, too.

Does it bounce, man?

You're a Mammericks fan. Your opinion doesn't count.

I used to run 15 x 7 in the front & 15 x 8 in the rear Torq "D's".

I needed new rubber & a buddy had the same wheels with 8.5" for the rear. I wanted wider on the rear than the current 255's. A cyber buddy told me the 3.75" backspacing of the 8.5" would work with a 295.

Anyhoots I chickened out since the 295s' were like 2" shorter.

The 275s' completed my intended stance.

Dumbshit that I am, this is the only stance I know of. Also commonly referred to as "rake".



BEFORE:

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...ps2a91162e.jpg

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...ps13356284.jpg




AFTER:

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...pse655b6b6.jpg

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...5-08152900.jpg


http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...s/3354035c.jpg

sweet ride
My nova had HUGE shackles on when I bought it
"rake" was an understatement

That is one hella sweet ride.

That's MY car. except it's a 66 and not a low rider.. and blue..

http://image.motortrend.com/f/279144...rtible-top.jpg

Doing this kind of shit to a classic is a ****ing sin. They look like shit and it ****s up the steering and handling aspects.

I have been changing the "ride height" on my cars for over 40 years, and I have dropped my Challenger 2 inches, the right way by changing the struts and springs.

I see these rice burners with them dropped down like that without correcting the camber, and I bust out laughing. I was sitting next to one of those things, a scion at a light a week ago, and the two guys in the car couldn't figure out why I was in histerics in my car.

That being said, I voted awesome, because at least they are doing something mechanical to the car instead of just bolting on a fart can muffler and stupid bi-plane wing.

Exactly where the **** do you expect to drive this expensive piece of eye candy?...

That's more like it.

According to the license plate shown in one of the photos, the owner clearly expects that females will actually be repulsed by the appearance of his vehicle...or maybe just him...or both.

I would like to see the homes some of these stanced guys live in.

I don't really like the cars, but the Audi in the OP has inspired my next license plate.

almost the dumbest thing ever

I find the term "stanced" kind of amusing and have been reflecting on all the terms through the years for changing the cars "stance" from stock. That is why I find it hard to criticize these cars, but they are amusing.

In the 50s, they "lowered" or "Dagoed" (front end low, back end high) them, and I did that to my 57 Fury in the mid 60s.

Then in the 60s, to emulate the "gassers" and "funny cars" at the drag strip, we "jacked" them, usually with the front higher than the rear.

I was poor, and remember putting a piece of 2x4 between the rear end and frame before I could swing a set of "air shocks" for the back of my 64 Barracuda. I cranked the torsion bars all the way up, and the car rode like crap .
It was also cool to paint the wheel wells and running gear white, with little light bulbs up in there to show it off at night.

Then in the 80s, it started to become cool to "slam" them and that is what I would call most of these pictures, SLAMMED. I had my 10 second Barracuda slammed as much as possible, and still have the ladder bars work.

Fun stuff, and I know some of these cars have air ride suspensions so they can raise them up when they are going to actually go some place.

Dude. :drool:

Is that a solid axle under the front end?

Yeah that is sweet!

I agree, probably the most appealing 59 Caddy I have ever seen.

Hang on, there was a sweet '59 Caddy at Greaserama last year. I'll see if I can dig up the picture.

Found it.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2yn2tmx.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/5dv6u0.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/30utq9i.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/312fgh2.jpg

While driving to work this morning, I was behing some 2 door M3 BMW...and holy shit it sounded HEALTHY. I'm talking a combo of Covevette and Ferrari. Got on the highway; we were around 60mph, he changed lanes and punched it - gone. like, 'gone' in a quick way.

It sounded even better when we turned on to the on-ramp. No idea what kind it was. Had sort of a bump on the hood; kick ass big (not reeruned big) wheels; low profile; dual-quad-tipped exhaust.

man.....I spent the rest of the drive wondering what it would be like to have a car that bad ass.

Hometeam nailed it. There is a difference between Classy stance and ricer stance.

Classy stance leaves a little fender gap, isn't cambered, and can successfully drive on the street. Ricer stance can't go over a speed bump.

I would like to see more of that Jeep, whatever it is, that is in front of the Caddy.

that. I would totally love a car like that for cruising.

That is a 60 I believe Radar, not a 59.

......is that Donked out 'Vette real? ....please god let it be photoshopped.

if it's not, the car deserves to be set on fire to put it out of it's misery.
lol @ the classic side pipes.

I have seen several cars done that way, truly a head scratcher. If 20s are cool, those have to be cooler, right?
A man moved in down the street from me with an early 80s Crown Vic, with what must be at least 26 inch wheels. I grin every time I see it, and glad it is his and not mine.

Now that you mention it I think you’re right. Shorter fins, different tail lights.

Which picture are you looking at?

I’m guessing that’s a “trar”, car body on 4X4 truck frame. I’m not a fan but that one is particularly heinous.