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Offline murraymint

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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3! *new car pg21*
« Reply #330 on: 04 May 2012, 19:37 »
Quote from: rcsammy on 04 May 2012, 19:08
cheers guys  :smiley:



Gunna look awesome with a fully smoothed bummer   :cool:
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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3! *new car pg21*
« Reply #331 on: 04 May 2012, 19:41 »
this just gets better all the time :)
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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3!
« Reply #332 on: 16 May 2012, 18:48 »
spacers are on, 15mm thick
i spaced the hub rather than the wheel as i could make them myself, cost me just over £10 for the material and bolts
wheel pokes just a little bit  :)







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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3!
« Reply #333 on: 16 May 2012, 18:58 »
that's such a good idea, would never have even thought of doing that :P

once you get those rust patches sorted this will be a seriously tidy looking car :D and i'm not a mk3 lover aha
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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3!
« Reply #334 on: 16 May 2012, 18:59 »
Nicely done!
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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3!
« Reply #335 on: 16 May 2012, 20:15 »
very nice sam. stub axle spacers ftw
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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3!
« Reply #336 on: 16 May 2012, 20:23 »
Nice to see a bit of initiative used once in a while although i'm intrigued as to whether this way of spacing the axles out is any stronger or safer than the conventional way of using spacers between the wheel and disc face. Obviously you had to use longer stub axle bolts, i hope they were high grade one ie. 12.9 as i should think the forces against them have just been increased considerably.
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Offline Junior74

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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3!
« Reply #337 on: 16 May 2012, 20:28 »
That is very cool...  :cool:
Love when there's an update on this car, wicked!!!!
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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3!
« Reply #338 on: 16 May 2012, 20:39 »
Quote from: thai-wronghorse on 16 May 2012, 20:23
Nice to see a bit of initiative used once in a while although i'm intrigued as to whether this way of spacing the axles out is any stronger or safer than the conventional way of using spacers between the wheel and disc face. Obviously you had to use longer stub axle bolts, i hope they were high grade one ie. 12.9 as i should think the forces against them have just been increased considerably.

Sound advice :afro: needs to be high grade bolts as you said.
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Re: Sams Scruffy Mk3!
« Reply #339 on: 16 May 2012, 21:13 »
the bolts are 'BZP' high tensile steel, i was advised that they would be strong enough, opinions welcome though?

i decided to space the hub rather than the wheel because it was a lot cheaper and also i wanted to use my current wheel bolts

the spacer options were either a 15mm bolt on type spacer which the cheapest i could find was £120 for a pair, or the standard hubcentric type using long bolts which were around £60... but i then had to run the crappy looking bolts and also had to pay £30-40 for a set of longer locking bolts

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