Author Topic: Dubster2 - '91 16v with hot interior :) (Read 58407 times)

Dubster2 · « **Reply #70 on:** 16 May 2011, 09:34 »

At the Sussex VW Owners club show last August:

At the Beach-Buggin show in portsmouth which was the last show that I went to before the new wheels were fitted!:

Dubster2 · « **Reply #71 on:** 18 May 2011, 10:01 »

Well I bought these 16" RS008 and RS009 in 7" and 8" back March 2010, so started getting on with these! -Strip-down, sold the ally lips that were in good condition, used the bolts & nuts on some RS001's that I sold and got the centres sent to Jeff Payne to do the welding and re-drilling job.

Dubster2 · « **Reply #72 on:** 24 May 2011, 10:13 »

Here's some pics of the centre's being welded, turned and re-drilled by Jeff Payne (taken with Jeff's camera-phone):

Dubster2 · « **Reply #73 on:** 30 May 2011, 11:19 »

Centre's back from being painted in original BBS straight silver at Lepsons in Gillingham: http://www.lepsons.com/

I had the barrels done black as you don't see them and they get covered in brake dust & dirt straight away which you can't get to clean without taking the wheels off!

One of the 2x 2"x16" stainless lips from a seller called Scene wheel parts on ebay (also got 2x 1.5"x16"): http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BBS-RS-16-x-3-stainless-steel-rim-NEW-/220675028242?pt=UK_CarParts_Acc_Wheels_tyres_Trims_Car_Rims_ET&hash=item336141b512

Wurth RTV sealant, thread lock and 136 stainlees RS Bolts and nuts:

Let the building commence!

Dubster2 · « **Reply #74 on:** 11 June 2011, 21:51 »

First one nearly done-the bits of blue tape were so I knew which bolts had been torqued up:

First one done! Never knew they'd been 5x112 before eh?!

With centre caps with nice red & gold badges and plates placed on:

2x205/40x16 Falken ZE912 tyres-not easy to get hold of and only found one place that could get them!:

Getting the tyres fitted:

First two done!:

Dubster2 · « **Reply #75 on:** 17 June 2011, 21:28 »

I only put the 2x 8â€ ones together first as I didnâ€™t know if I was going to use 8â€™s or 7 Â½â€™s on the front, so thought Iâ€™d try the 8â€™s (that were going on the back) on the front to see how they fitted:

Although they just about fitted on the front, they were very close and as I wanted to lower the coilovers, which there would be no way I could do with the 8â€™s on the front and I didnâ€™t want to cut the original G60 wings/G60 wing liners & arch trims or go for tyres that were more stretched, so decided to go for the 7 Â½â€™s on the front and keep the 8â€™s for the back.

Dubster2 · « **Reply #76 on:** 27 June 2011, 12:10 »

Now for the 7 1/2"'s!:

One even needed no weights at all for the balancing!

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and the 8â€™s with 205/40x16. Forgot to mention that I also fitted short-stem stainless valves:

Dubster2 · « **Reply #77 on:** 04 July 2011, 11:57 »

This was my first trip with the 16" RS's on on the No-rice Guildford to West-wittering run on the August bank holiday Monday. I won some cleaing products in the little show & shine as best condition/detailed car!