R2D2 aka MK4 Gt Td

i like this game

One word.

Spare.

Cars looking good mate, Cant wait to see it with the other wheels on though.

Looking good Max, nice healthy drop.

Wheels are gonna be pretty epic dude, you can just tell.

billybug wrote:

2 words

duck tape

Win.

thermal wrote:

max wrote:

2 words.

slow puncture.

2 words

Tyre Weld.

thought that was just for temporary fixes?

are you not running temporary wheels?

thermal wrote:

are you not running temporary wheels?

temporarily for like a month and a half

at the moment i have a 12v electric tyre pump in my car so i wont get stuck anywhere but its just a bit of a pain

tyre weld will be fine for that long man

Dont use tyre weld dude, its proper manky stuff, and will obviously be all over your wheel when you take that tyre off. i know you cant see it when you put another tyre on but still.


Go to a tyre place and ask if it can be replaired, aslong as its not on the sidewall or really close to it, they can repair it.

matty, not meaning to tread on your toes but i really dont care about these wheels, there just my shitty standard 15s lol

To halfrauds!

thats fair enough then m8, ive used it before on s**t wheels. just thought id mention it thats all.

max wrote:

matty, not meaning to tread on your toes but i really dont care about these wheels, there just my shitty standard 15s lol

To halfrauds!

im working tonight dude if you need anything else paint wise etc.

Lupton_20vt wrote:

max wrote:

matty, not meaning to tread on your toes but i really dont care about these wheels, there just my shitty standard 15s lol

To halfrauds!

im working tonight dude if you need anything else paint wise etc.

I need a rivet gun mate!

I have one you can borrow tomasssss you need some rivets for it though.

right after spending my lunch going to the stealers 2 days in a row now they sent in the wrong pipe. so after a bit of huffing and puffing i got one of the guys to come out and pointed at the pipe.

he brought it up on their system and they wanted £65 for a f*****g rubber pipe no longer then 2 1/2 foot. absolute joke!

so in light of my recent funds im just going to bodge it because i really dont have that sort of money spare at the moment. not a happy bunny

finally got the time (and the space in the garage) to try out which centres i should put on which barrels.

first time round i tried the low et's on the front and higher et on the back. the backs sat too far out and the front barrels sat on the coilover arms. so after a quick switcharo i fitted the higher et centres up to the 8.5 barrels and the lower to the 9.5s. Both stick about 15mm out of the arches, will be more after the adaptors

heres some pictures


Rim on the sus arm (not good)


final front wheel poke


final rear wheel poke


and another


sneak preview


obligatory wheel shots





and finally where i have/will spend too much time...



the centres in the picture have now been stripped, sanded flat and are now in the process of getting painted so will start building them up in (estimate) about a week

so they are gonna poke more than that allround with adaptors, or is that after adaptors?

P.S. they look like 8s and 9s to me too

matty_mk1 wrote:

so they are gonna poke more than that allround with adaptors, or is that after adaptors?

P.S. they look like 8s and 9s to me too

before adaptors mate, the rears will probably be out just over an inch which is fine with a bit of stretch. Ive got a set of 225/45/17's sitting im my shed at the moment so as long as they go on ok i'll be a happy bunny.

as for the sizes, im cool with it whatever they are

looks rude

that yellow primer kinda looks good against the green too man

225/45 will be fine m8 will be abit big for the front though imo

thermal wrote:

looks rude

that yellow primer kinda looks good against the green too man

i kind of thought the same thing when i put them together. maybe i should leave two in high build and two in black

if i dont like how they end up i can always take them apart again and spray them up. its so much easier on split rims

why not do them gold?

get a harder n bigger cutting wheel n save yourself loads of time max, then a nice big climax wheen for buffing, mirror dishes ftw cant wait to see them all done and on dude

max wrote:

before adaptors mate, the rears will probably be out just over an inch which is fine with a bit of stretch.

You'll need a fair amount of stretch to get it sitting low on a wheel that pokes over an inch out of the arch. You'll probably find you might want to run some araldite/hard compund resin on the underside/inside of your arches. Just a very thin layer.
This will help to stop the tyres from pulling your paint off if they scrub at all (which they most probably will).
Mine scrubbed so often that some of the paint was flaking away on the underside of the arch.

Also, get your fronts rolled asap.
You'll need it

Gonna be so sick when done fella

You, Chris and I are gonna have to hook up for a shoot. Two whoresome mk4s