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And sold

Ive got some that Im selling, Ive just put the thread up on here but imagine it needs a moderator to press the button. One wheel has some slight kerbing but the other 3 are mint, looking for £350 if youre interested?

Errr ......... no, you are massively over thinking this. As Ive said, I didnt like mine with 5/20mm spacers but loved it with 25mm, your best bet is to put them on and see how you get on with it. Creating bespoke suspension setups so you can run your wheels 20mm wider is madness, the chances are you wont even notice the difference in the first place. I lowered my car 55mm, put 2 inch wider 18s on the front and 3 inch wider 19's on the back as well as adding 25mm spacers all round and the car handled noticeably better, no question, you may be pleasantly surprised and even if you arent remember you can always take them off .........

From my 350Z, I used them mainly as fronts on my driftcar so they havent seen a lot of action in a while :wack: Fronts are 18 x 8.0 ET30, rears are 18x8.5 ET33 and they are pretty much mint apart from some slight kerbing on one rim (pictured) Tyres are nearly new 225 Toyo T1Rs on the rears and worn but legal 215 Acceleras on the front, Im after £375 delivered.

My 350Z handled better with wider wheels and 25mm spacers, no question, and on my old S13 I wouldnt be able to tell you whether the spacers were on or not. They dont actually alter any geometry, why should it be any different fro using a wheel with an additional xx mm of back spacing on it?

I think its the harder compound but it wasnt as good as DO-1J, R888 or RSR's, they rears are becoming very sensitive to rain now as well. I dont even think they are that old, have prob been on car for 18 months, maybe a bit more. They are good, just not as good as the others IIRC RSR's are the least durable of the others, I might try some DZ03's next time round but definitely going MPSS for winter.

Did a track day at Rockingham on NS2-R's on my 135 at weekend. They were good, predictable, hard wearing ......... but didnt grip anywhere near as much as Id hoped even when up to temp, arguably only as much as an MPSS does. Top marks for durability but not so much for grip

Work Emotion XD9 mate, Driftworks are the official UK Importer these days too

Corrected that for you

Hes just said it is, he will clear it later but email if youre in a hurry

If you need me to relay a message then let me know, Ive dropped him a line on failbook to let him know though

Nope, thats Cambridge and its pretty indicative. TBF Ive been having a long running discussion with a cyclist mate and we have both agreed that Cambridge is an anomaly, they are absolutely mental round here. The same mate was kocked off his bike by a taxi last year and came out of the deal a kidney lighter, even if the cyclists are at fault (and he wasnt) they are always going to coem off worse if theres a problem, hence this status quo of who is worse. Fact is there are bad cyclists and bad drivers, but the drivers cause more carnage.

Alright dude, welcome to the "Ive moved on from rusty jap motors" club Give it about 10 years and all of DW and SXOC will be on here I reckon

Hmm, Id say 350 wins on noise too, its more predictable in the chassis then the M3 but less communicative. M3 brakes are @*!#, really @*!#.

And yet mine gets humiliated down a country road compared to my mates lotus Elise ! I find Elises to be mobile roadblocks on track though, weird isnt it?

The car is also less likely to launch itself off the rollers and into something solid, hub dynos are portable too.

On track a Zed is a damn quick car, it has to be said - surprises a lot of much more expensive metal, I think the key is how accessible it is

I stopped after "theres always a lot of wheelspin on a dyno" and "tyre deformation ......." If you have wheelspin on a dyno then it gives incorrect figures, you just end up with a with a big lump in the middle, and tyre losses are tiny, most decent dynos have adjustment to remove them entirely. ETA: You might have 1hp less between hub and wheel Bodyboarder, but a slight difference in temperature or atmospheric pressure would have the same effect so its irrelevant at the end of the day

@octet, no he didnt, apparently you lose 20hp between your wheelnuts and the tyre surface

It does say OPL in the blurb, sounds pretty decent actually. I think I may stick myself in for this one, just want to check Spa days first so it doesnt clash

Since when has hub and wheel horsepower been different? Why do you get less at the wheel then the hub, is it a property of the alloy its made of or maybe tyre deformation?? Flywheel horsepower is at the flywheel i.e. if the engine (rather than the car) is on a dyno, wheel horsepower is that with transmission losses. I think you are taking "at the hubs" a bit too literally my friend

I was there to watch that lap ......... as was everyone else within a 20 miles radius of la circuit de la Sarthe, I dont think even for the start the crowd was as big. The car is an icon, and was great to see and hear giving it (nearly) full chat, if you ever get the chance to see and hear a 787 or 767 in the metal get it done, you wont regret it

Dont know actually, having seen video it was only a little bomb, apparently hidden under a motorcycle. Didnt look anything like the Muslamic bombs Ive seen recently, more like a pi**ed off student or something

No, none of the turbos have problems, 996 or 997 - the GT3's dont suffer either

Whoever started this "GTR's drive themselves" thing is one hell of a marketeer ............ If youre driving a GTR, turn everything off, remove your brain and give it to a friend to look after, then do things you never thought were possible. Repeatedly. The feedback and all that are just as good, youre just going a shedload faster. The only thing Id knock it for is weight, if feels markedly bigger and less unwieldy, but that hardly unexpected.