Will keep an eye on this, really looking forward to the results, hope they take you under 14s mate

Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

Will keep an eye on this, really looking forward to the results, hope they take you under 14s mate

Same here.

The way it's going the Fabia mkII VRS quarter mile times could soon be better than the mkI...

Time to go mk2 hunting in Dundee then

Time to go mk2 hunting in Dundee then

stage 2 vs stage 2 :moon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDxf1HN0ncw&context=C4b49031ADvjVQa1PpcFN_A_JGdYPeP6J5TNw8KQmUPqLQ_wM7G2w=

haha! ill keep an eye out. come to crail at the end of the month!

Tyres turned up yet bud?

not yet :-( i ordered some soft compounds but they are having trouble with them so i got my order changed to medium compound. should be here mid week. ill post the oblijitory pics of them fotted asap!

Woopa!

They look awesome bud! Can't wait to see the times!

Need to make sure im not going down the strip at crail against you at the end of the month, my tires are down to about 2mm at the front so i have no grip at all:(

Interested to see how those tyres perform.

Just weighed the wheels on some not so accurate bathroom scales and the wheels fully fitted with balancing weights etc comes in at 15kg... Strange that the tyres weigh so much compared to the wheels which were just over 5kg!

Not sure how heavy the original wheels are but when I take them off ill stick them on to see.

Well they're on ready to get a bit of a scrub before sunday. Not the greatest picture ever but ill try and get better ones later on during the week.

The rains slowed me down a lot but I got to test out my new impact wrench too. Amazing. Bolts come off in seconds!

em....not sure what to say about that lol. Looks like milk bottle tops for wheels lol

hahaha! i know... they looked the tits before they were on the car... just for the track so not so bad lol.

strange how my 15' steelies looked so aggressive etc and these are the same size but look so. umm...

Good thing about those wheels is the rear brakes dont look sooo pathetic anymore

The fronts look crazy huge

Look awesome bud!

got a 13.97 with the tyres. will post a bigger update tomorrow about the tyres etc.

Thats a result mate. If you pop your current spec and timing sheet in the 1/4 mile thread ill move you up the board. Thats the fastest Fabia time as well

I like the rims - might look small but they look ready for a fight!

That's a freaking awesome time bud! Congrats!

For my 1/4 mile / trackday / McDonalds showing off I decided to buy some light weight alloys and semi slick tyres.

Alloys

Team Dynamic Pro Race 2. 5x100 15 inch. Weight Approx 5.5kg ( Skoda center caps dont fit)

I choose these wheels because they met my weight requirements of 6kg or less and they were 15 inch. I wasn't all that fussed on the looks as these would only be for use on the track but I might get rid of my white steelies and swap the winter tyres and semi slicks during there off seasons.

They are a 5 spoke design with a Matt Black finish.

Tyres:

I spent a long time researching tyres. I wanted some that would be as cost efficient as possible which basically threw out all the "major" brands ala Toyo R888 which were £100+ per tyre.

I found a company called Maxsport who do remould competition rally tyres which are EU approved for road use when I was looking to get winter tyres, so I looked them up again and they do a few ranges of slick tyres, the RB4 and RB5. They are highly praised from subaru track day users along with time attack who are on a budget.

For the vrs I choose to have 205/55/15 tyres which are as close to the original rolling size as possible. 2% or so out.

Each of these tyres come in a few ranges of standard sizes, as well as three choices of compound. Soft, Medium, Hard. Due to a lack of stock I opted for the Mediums after ordering the Softs. I'd of been waiting for them now as I type this!

These were picked up from JJC Race & Rally for shy of £80 a tyre.

A word of warning, these tyres are very noisy on normal roads. It's off set with the amount of grip you have though, even at normal road speeds you have supreme grip.

The tyre tread

Fitted

Parked up waiting for the SC.N guys from Aberdeen to head through Dundee for me to join on the convoy. I ended up leading cause they werent too sure of the way there! haha!

Thanks for the info - hope to do something similar the next time I get in the track.

By the way is it me or you got a crease on the arch just above the front tyre? what happened there?