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Title: My new 18" wheels
Post by: Anonymous on June 7, 2004, 10:19

Just fitted my new 18" wheels on my MRS, its coming along quite nicely, bodykit arriving next week for it, watch this space...

A picture can be found at m http://www.whifbitz.co.uk/whifsupra.html (http://www.whifbitz.co.uk/whifsupra.html) m

Thanks
Paul

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Post by: markiii on June 7, 2004, 10:22

coming soon, the new thread, "My New Fillings" :-) :-) :-)

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Post by: Anonymous on June 7, 2004, 10:24

Nothing wrong with the ride at all

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Post by: markiii on June 7, 2004, 10:25

what tyres are you runnig?

I'd be expecting something ina 30 profile on 18"s

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Post by: Anonymous on June 7, 2004, 10:25

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Post by: markiii on June 7, 2004, 10:26

go on, the rest of teh spec is?

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Post by: Anonymous on June 7, 2004, 10:27

215/35x18

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Post by: markiii on June 7, 2004, 10:27

all round?

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Post by: Anonymous on June 7, 2004, 10:28

Yep

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Post by: markiii on June 7, 2004, 10:31

well thats bigger than stock in terms of rolling radius which will slow you dowm, but I dare say teh Torque fo teh turbo will nullify that.

I assume thats why?

but running them all round, no offense but have you driven a midengined car like this hard? thats going to be oversteer city without a front to rear stagger.

If it's for show only then fair enough, but if your planning on driving it hard be careful. that profile rubber won't give you much warning when it wants to go, and it is going to want to go.

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Post by: Anonymous on June 7, 2004, 10:35

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Post by: markiii on June 7, 2004, 10:37

same profile all round wasn't my point. same width was.

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Post by: GSB on June 7, 2004, 10:49

Got to agree, this car doesn't like the same width tyres all round as standard, with a turbo I dread to think how livley its going to be, but suffice to say you wont be getting the best from it. Still, they should wear out pretty quickly, in which case you can re-apply the 20+mm of extra rubber to the rear end to balance things out again.

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Post by: Anonymous on June 7, 2004, 11:12

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Post by: markiii on June 7, 2004, 11:14

well I've no idea of how hard you drive your car Perry, but be careful, I hate to see you dent it after all that hard work :-) :-) :-)

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Post by: kanujunkie on June 7, 2004, 12:47

nice wheels mate, but what spec are the 3 birds at the bottom???

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Post by: Anonymous on June 7, 2004, 18:20

Seems fine to me, chucked it round a few corners over the weekend without any problems.

Thanks for the good comments, cant wait to get the kit on there now, that'll really transform it I think, nothing over the top, nice and smooth, thats the way I like it, pictures will be along soon.

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Post by: Slacey on June 10, 2004, 08:34

<MOD> Split posts as they were way off topic; see new thread 'Charge cooler' in Performance. </MOD>

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Post by: Anonymous on June 12, 2004, 10:43

I hope you won't drive it in the rain with those wheels on.

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Post by: Anonymous on June 18, 2004, 11:55

Quote from: "kanujunkie"nice wheels mate, but what spec are the 3 birds at the bottom???

They look at least 18s

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