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Offline VR6-Joe

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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #800 on: 26 January 2010, 20:34 »
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Offline LazyLunatic

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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #801 on: 26 January 2010, 20:40 »
I cant wait!!! my favourite alloys apart from the schmidt revolutions, which are a little out of my price range.

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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #802 on: 26 January 2010, 21:30 »
m8, love it!!
i went off the look with the bonnet, but everytime ya go off a little, ya pull things like the borbets out of the bag...
pics when they are on m8... my fav wheel of all time!!


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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #803 on: 26 January 2010, 23:17 »
will do! yeah i have tendency to do stuff that make people hate, but its changes so often!

this time im going for a good look, mint condition! I want it to look as good as it goes :)

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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #804 on: 26 January 2010, 23:57 »
I want it to look as good as it goes

In which case you're going to knock a fair chunk of how good it needs to look by fitting those rims.

Stretch = less good handling as the sidewalls are out of shape, so can't deform, thus the tyre won't perform properly.  It won't grip as much and will let go less progressively.

Wheels that wide are totally unnecessary on a car of that weight and power.  You'd be much better with a set of 16" 7" wide rims and something like a 205 width tyre in ~50 profile.  This will give you a lighter rim, so better suspension compliance etc and a pretty reasonably priced tyre.

Driving-wise you'd be better off hunting down a 'box with a Quaife fitted, which will make things far more interesting and fun than spunking money on some over-blown rims.

Are you building the car to drive and enjoy, or look like some gangsta tw@t?
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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #805 on: 27 January 2010, 00:11 »
Borbet As always look sweet but avoid white centres with black lips! It looks so rubbish that the  :sick: smiley doesn't do it justice. Have a search over on vwvortex and see for yourself, they look atrocious! Another shape wheel maybe but not the As, the dish looks awful hidden in black and then the position of the white centre looks retarded. Besides, why go deep dish only to hide the dish?  :undecided:
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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #806 on: 27 January 2010, 09:22 »
ahhh, there going on and i cant wait!!! I know what your saying DH and i have thought of that already and already looked into the quaife + new box....

ok ok all white!!! :)

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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #807 on: 27 January 2010, 09:41 »
lol @ dh -
see where your coming from m8 but i think it will look good!
i think a little bit of stretch is good on the right car, but always think over stretch is scary, lol!
how much arew ya gonna be stretching them ll??
agree about the black rims though!!


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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #808 on: 27 January 2010, 09:44 »
I like! Yea I can understand what DH is saying, and I know your car is a lot more powerful than my 16v was, but I used to thrash that around corners etc.. And that griped better than any car I've ever had. That was however with 7.5" fronts and 9" rears. I had 195/40/16 front tyres and the rears were 195/45/16. Never any problems there, I'd just say buy quality tyres and keep an eye on them for and tears/bulges.

Will look sweet mate :) Deffo do them all white or something, wish that mine had never been black tbh!

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Re: LL's MK3 20VT SLEEPER [Rims revealed!]
« Reply #809 on: 27 January 2010, 10:45 »
not going to be stretched a lot, tyres are 215's. not sure on profile.

i know what he is saying, he always says stuff like that lol. sometimes you gotta throw the book out the window