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Louder, yes, raspier and crappy sounding, yes.

 

Don't listen to this guy though, he's been through countless exhausts and the one he settled on is still rubbish

Louder, yes, raspier and crappy sounding, yes.

About 10.5/9.5 back, front, 18 and 17 et is roughly flush.

So, with et of negative something for 9.5/8.5 would be flush.

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After all that, you got varrstoens Shocking

18s are indeed cheaper for tyres, but if you're considering them for track work, you really cant do any better than RAYS, lightest wheel you can get, bar Enkei RPF01s i believe.

If money is no object, WORKS Wheels every time

 

Works are heavier than the rays as far as i'm aware. Works aren't that expensive either.

 

Correct, Most of them are not Forged either.

 

Volks FTW (or Varrstoens )

Even volks aren't baller enough for me now ian Oh dear, all the wheel hoes coming out

I need to see how your r34 is coming along.

18s are indeed cheaper for tyres, but if you're considering them for track work, you really cant do any better than RAYS, lightest wheel you can get, bar Enkei RPF01s i believe.

If money is no object, WORKS Wheels every time

Works are heavier than the rays as far as i'm aware. Works aren't that expensive either.

Incidentally there are some silly expensive and light magnesium wheels, just can't remember the name.

Why are you going with cheap, heavy wheels for the track?

Buy some rays.

My trouble is that I see so many people pouring £5K+ into the car to make it heavier and slower by adding all the pretty bits, and that makes me die a little inside

 

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Tbh it's not exactly that quick in the first place. I'm not sure it's a car well suited for being tracked, just due to the weight alone.

OP, have you done front and rears in the end? You do tend to notice having standard pads at the rear.

Too much power........?!

You can have too much power?!

Besides, the zed isn't exactly quick, m3 wasn't that quick either. Need something quicker

It's quite clear to me he got a landy confused with this

On a side note, I run on falkens and they do lose grip fairly suddenly, michelins or bridgestones for me next. Yes ekona, I sort of agree with you

imho it's still very predictable and easy to control without tc interfering.

Rays are powdercoated iirc, should be fine. Personally though it's best not to let them get to that state.

Incidentally it would be rinse with water to remove surface dirt, spray on hot rims, brush and rinse off.

+1 except I use a Zymol sponge

I bet they're both pretty much eggcrate foam

Anyhew, feels odd to wash with even the dodo sponge, wookies fist is just

Just asking what has everyone got against sponges....

 

I make sure the sponges are clean, as well as the bucket before I touch the car with it.

 

I have always been using this method, and not have any problems. I have used it on my landcruiser which is 17 years old and she still looks brand new.

Nothing at all.

http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/dodo-juic ... sponge.php

So I say yes, yes, yes to a sponge But I still prefer the wookies fist for most of the car.

I guess that answers my question then! People dont care about driving considerately, even when they could potentially put the life of an innocent baby in danger with their driving. Sad really.

Surely they don't care about whose lives they put in danger, the fact there's a baby involved is neither here nor there.

I'd have thought so long as you drive sensibly, whether you have a sticker or not should make no odds?

I certainly wouldn't treat anyone different on the basis of a baby on board sticker, you can't blame bad driving on having a baby and what other difference does it make apart from rescue vehicles possibly?

Hope attak doesn't post

Too late for doc

To me those look quite similar to the Avant Garde M368.

Those are lovely But to me they don't look like the enkeis, closer to work cr kais tbh, but faaarr nicer

Shame about the calipers behind them though

Wonder where our resident wheel hoes are

(Looks like you've got taste )

Not seen those Enkei's before thanks for the heads up, the wheels on the Voltex car are AME TM02's

Looks like they're discontinued for starters and they look to me identical to the enkeis?

http://www.enkei.co.uk/acatalog/Enkei_L ... heels.html

Kit for me is a bit But maybe tarmac could get hold of it for you?

I really like the ones on the Kia!

The tyres are wayyy too fat on them, though they do remind me of volks.

I'm really liking all three styles you showed but waiting until later in the year could prove difficult!

 

To give me an idea, what do the 18" ones weigh in comparison to Rays?

Heavy

Even really light volks/advans struggle to get near the weight of the rays, rotas will be heavier.

I know, but at that point I was phoning every fortnight or so. They had paid out for at least 4 cars to be valeted and god knows how many houses to be repainted from the crap that was thrown up too.

I actually ended up getting English Heritage involved as I thought the house was falling down from the buses. It was physically shaking everytime one went past

 

What, actually sort out the "Road of Death" thats had traffic issues for all of the 25 odd years Ive lived here? Dont be silly, what they want to do is build another 150 houses in Linton without touching the roads. Like they are going to.

Hear your car every day you go through the village BTW, sounding and looking good (you drive right past my bedroom window )

I can't help but think buses going up the high street causes big jams and going down that part of the high street.

I think it was at the same point they resurfaced the a1307 going into linton from abington, that was fun dodging the massive potholes every day uptil that point

Why they can't just stop a bit further down the high street, say near the dog and duck and not go further up the high street, rather than cause big jams joining the A1307 I don't know.

"Road of Death", I just love that, the number of times I've seen just utter morons trying to cause accidents, it's not the road to blame, it's the sheer amount of morons who don't understand what a slip road is

It needs a bit of a clean and I'd like to at least get the aerosync bumper, but I'm not sure whether I want to spend any more moolah on it currently

sure - many would spit their dummy out, but they'd get over it after a couple of weeks, just like the rioters in the summer. Eventually it would sink in that going through life just expecting others to pick up the tab isn't on...

I thought the riots were because they wanted everything for free?

I really just don't buy it, council tax is a fraction of other taxes we pay to support many lowlifes up to a degree, there are however, many people who don't abuse it and have been put into an unavoidable situation and end up needing it.

I wonder whether it would be practical to evaluate whether people could work physically and mentally, then kick them out of their homes and take away their benefits if they were in a suitable shape to apply for a job, but hadn't.

Imho, the only people who had a problem with poll tax, are the people that didn't like the concept of paying for the services they used.

 

Having just looked at our local councils website, our district has a population of some 80,000 people. Yet my council tax makes up 1/10,000th of the total council tax bill. Yep - seems fair to me. Our house of two people clearly must be using the council provided facilities four times as much as others.

 

Is there something fundamentaly wrong with expecting people to pay for what they use?

I think there are some exceptions to this, like social services for example.

There are some cases where legitimately people couldn't afford, nor expect social services to have to intervene in the first place.

Maybe planning because they have more space to plan for?

As stated, the potholes in the "highway" outside my house were repaired no less than 7 times last year, and about the saem the year before, causing shedloads of tar to coat my car and house and potentially structurally damaging the house too - its a listed building on a bus route and shook every time one came past and went through the potholes.

Ive also noticed my commute to work go up from 25 minutes each way to 45 minutes each way due solely to traffic congestion. So yeah, I do use them but they are crap.

 

EDIT: Ricey's on the money

I think they actually repaired them properly last time, only took about however many previous gos before they got it right

They're pretty rubbish about maintaining the roads and gritting anyways.

You saw the traffic counter near the lights on the high street? Maybe they'll do something positive for once, maybe even get rid of those stupid lights outside the school which cause huge jams.

Waste disposal centres are also a joke.