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I can hear everyone going, "Oh ****! What's he doing now?!"

Well, simple really. Take two 14" steels. Clean them thoroughly, mask off the tyre & valve with newspaper and tape. Not much to see at the moment as the wheel has had a basecoat of silver hammerite only, which has dried evenly with no drips. When the weather improves over the BH weekend, I hope to apply a coat of diamond silver and start the same process again on the other steel.

Thinking about pumping them up to 40PSI and running them to Germany and back. Rough calculations tell me the fuel saved might well fuel a lap of the ring - plus there's the novelty value (not AROUND the ring of course, thats just dangerous ) 100mm less rubber on the ground at the back as the tyres are 165/70 R14, plsu pumping them up might mean even less rolling resistance. (and less resistance to cornering oversteer as well....)

Hoping for a dry monday [fingers crossed]

These going on the back i take it???

As they deffo wont fit front

These going on the back i take it???

As they deffo wont fit front

You take it right.

Plus having them as steering tyres would definitely be asking for an early grave. They are usually on the back of my car when I go down the pod - I just fancied painting them.

Is your fabia not tail happy enough :eek:

I agree with the drag racing thought, i have some extra long polo Tdi springs to put in my rear end for 1/4 miles etc and some 14inch steels too, just need tyres now.

but surely the extra weight of carrying 2 more wheels will outweigh any gains from reduced drag?

but surely the extra weight of carrying 2 more wheels will outweigh any gains from reduced drag?

Not if he fills the tyres with helium.

that wouldn't make any difference at all.

I think the rolling resistance will play as big a part as the weight of the car itself. I would be either sat on 4 alloys with a steel in the car, or now it's 2 steels on the car, and 2 alloys in the back.

Offset it earlier this morning anyway - my LPG tank is now out the spare wheel well, so that's the back end lightened by about 25 to 30kg!

you not running the gas now then?

you not running the gas now then?

Experimenting with Ultimate Diesel / V Power without gas, due to my race injectors being fitted, when using full throttle on propane, it was smoking VERY VERY bad, and it still smokes a fair bit when not on gas. The clues are there that the car is fuelling plenty enough with the race nozzles alone, so am seeing how it goes.

Need to speak to Allard after the ring trip to go through remapping and what they recommend. Could well be I end up ripping out the propane kit and just having the fuelling supplied by the uprated nozzles. Certainly cut back on weight. Economy on race nozzles alone seems reasonable too. Looks like my current tank is heading for a rough 50mpg by the time I fill it up.

lol Jason your insane! lol lol but i like it lol

This is the "spray booth" as of now. Good weather for it today - Not too sunny, but a little breezy which isn't helping the spray pattern out the can.... [looks down at silver figertips...]

My brother recently did something similar as one of his wheels needs to be refurbished, so the steels needed to go back on for a while. However, they were rusty, flaky and generally looking rough ...

He decided to paint them so first he sanded them down ...

After masking them up and putting on his finest chav garms he got the primer out ...

Tucked up inside ready for painting ...

And they were done ...

Why?

Him and his mate made some sort of deal ...

I don't know

My "primer" is hammerite smooth silver "straight to rust" and it's going on nice. The skoda paint is more liquidy, so would not be suitable to apply straight to the steel. It's going on nice on top of the single coat of hammerite though. Proving to be a good match for skoda silver, so I might get another can as it's a lot cheaper than Skoda paint and a lot tougher to use as a basecoat.

Reminds me, I think the steel which has had 2 coats of skoda silver is ready for some clearcoat!