Let's be honest - we're talking about a family saloon with a nippy engine, not a funking Caterham...

Edited 24 July, 201312 yr by Babs

Well you'll love my car lol

Staggered wheels on a fwd.

3 piece split rims so will no doubt fall apart.

5x130 - 5x100 hub adaptors.

cheap tires which are stretched.

Stupidly low cheap coilovers.

Geometry all over the shop.

Bottom arms sitting about 45 degrees to the subframe.

Minimal ground clearance. Haha

But I'm well aware that these factors make its handling worse but then even if i had kw v3 coilovers and the stickiest tires it still wouldnt handle well at the height i run so its irrelevant,plus in 10 years of ownership I've not span off the road in a fireball as a result of its handling or a bodged on wheel falling off so I clearly drive to the road conditions and the wheels are pretty well held on

Plus as it's not a track car and it never will be it doesn't matter about its handling and to be fair the octy isn't what you'd call an ideal track car anyway so if that's what your after you've probably bought the wrong car.

And I'll happily call my car a bodged up heap and not bothered if people think the same as I built it for me

But calling anything on lloyds car a bodge is so far from the truth,it's probably one of the cleanest and best looked after cars on the forum to be honest and would not feel uneasy as a passenger on a track just because it has hub adaptors fitted

Damn, forgot about split rims! They must be really dangerous and a bodge of the lowest quality!

I think someone should have told Porsche not to put split rims on the GT3...

I bought 19 x 8.5 inch ET 35 rims from Wheelbase Alloys in Liverpool and they came with 235 x 35 x 19 tyres.....which on standard suspension caught on the back, every time I hit a big bump. So I got some 215 x 35 x 19 tyres fitted and they didn't catch on standard suspension, but then I lowered it on Weitec coilovers and almost all of the time, they were fine......but when I hit a big bump they'd scuff just ever so slightly on the inside of the rear arches.

 

Due to the wife kerbing the hell out of my wheels (215's leave the alloys standing proud unfortunately) I've now swapped to 18 x 8 inch ET40's with 225 x 40 x 18 tyres (Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2's.....bloody good tyres....especialy in the wet) but because my wheels are very dished, they weren't a straight fit because they hit the standard calipers. Worse on the back than the front actually. So I had to use 10mm hubcentric spacers.....making the wheels ET30's effectively......but they only scuff on the rear on the most monstrous bumps and only when fully loaded.....by which I mean all of the family in the car and enough camping equipment for a small army......plus a fully loaded roof box

Oh.....forgot to mention that I'm currently in the process of ruining my car some more, by having a Quaife ATB LSD fitted by Jabbasport at the moment. Should get it back this week.

What's going on! Why does everyone keep saying my name?

 

 

I heard Jimmy Savile used wheel spacers.

 

Just saying..........

And look how long he got away with everything....

Leave my adaptors alone

They are fine

Lloyd..  you need to clean your calipers boy!  lol 

i did look at that when the pic popped up lol

Next time the wheels are off i think i need to do some scrubbing

Although i'll just rip the fronts off when i can and have some shiny green tarox bolted on

That's if they don't fall off on there own in the mean time with your bodged on adaptors lol

Just hope no one spots my camber shims

Lloyd seen as your king bodger I have a job for you..........

I need a pair of hubcentric 15mm spacers with bolts to "bodge" my rears down to et15

And a pair of 5mm spacers to "bodge" my fronts down to et25

Bolt on ones tend to be 20mm bud

Only bolt on stuff ive known be less is the porsche pcd adaptors bud

15mm tend to be bolt thru, h&r supply extended bolts but then u got to source lockers. , and thats long ol' bolts mate

I'll text u some findings

Is it 5x100 or still 4x100 on mk3s

Is it a 57.1 hub bud ?

Guys, girls, this is the Mk1 Octy section we don't lower ourselves to petty squabbles.

 

 

 

 

Increase da peace 

 

Respec...

Uh oh its the higher powers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BxBs4f4RIU

Lol this thread is amazing been like the old days ha ha

Lloyd the bodger ha ha

Its got ur stickers on too lol :p

How about some "bodged not bought" stickers?

Bodged not built

Hehe im calm to do so behave you toad

Bodged not built!!!! :D :D :D :D  that is a fecking must!! who knows any good sticker making people i need that lmao

Bodged not built!!!! :D :D :D :D  that is a fecking must!! who knows any good sticker making people i need that lmao

I do but he's away at the min........damn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BxBs4f4RIU

 

Pure Class old skool cool.

 

I Bow down.      :love:  :love:      :love:  :love: