New wheels

[Harryoz]

Never really happy with the Coupe4 wheels. They looked great and fitted the kit, but just werent wide enough at the rear and the fronts needed to run with spacers.

So I measured up a set to take the biggest rubber to fit under the arches.

Ended up calculating 19x9 +10 in the front and 19x11 +30 in the rear. Had them made up by Image Wheels and they turned up a few weeks back. As she made it home on Thursday I had the chance to get them fitted over the weekend.

She's currently running 245/35 19 on the front and 285/30 19 on the rear as they've still got life left on them. The rears were a bit of a stretch to fit though and looks like they'll happily take a 305/30 on the rear when these wear out.

I love them as they really fill out the arches, and the matt black looks great. Was even able to recycle the HSV centre caps!

[S800VXR]

Your just forcing me to mini tube aint ya! 11"!!!

[007 VXR]

nice

and they are very light ..

[Harryoz]

S800VXR said:

Your just forcing me to mini tube aint ya! 11"!!!

Oh yes! Go baby.

Managed to fit some Hoosier road slicks I had lieing around to them as well 295/30 to check they fit. Oh yes....not sure they're great drag tyres, but cant hurt!

Edited by Harryoz on Sunday 13th September 22:10

[Tempy]

Nice to see you've cleaned her Harry. Was looking a bit sorry for itself up at Monkfish last week. Beautiful loking car though. I do like the yellow. Dark wheels with the graphite Wortec stripe.....very nice.

Does this mean you can make the meet on Sunday?

Edited by Tempy on Sunday 13th September 22:20

[SimonV8ster]

Certainly looks mean.

[Boosted LS1]

I think you may have to be careful with the Hoosiers for road use as they may be lacking the steel reinforcement or are cross plys. I'm fairly certain something needs checking, could also be speed rating.

ETA, does look good though.

Edited by Boosted LS1 on Sunday 13th September 23:31

[essexhsv]

Sorry Harry but those wheels dont look good.

Thats not a good look for a Ro Im sure you can give them away to someone if you try lol

Slicks are cool for the drag strip and going around corners fast

[Andy Sargeant]

Don't forget when you go wider you also go taller, think 305/30x19 going to be a tad to big, you will soon find out though.

Andy.

[Harryoz]

Boosted LS1 said:

I think you may have to be careful with the Hoosiers for road use as they may be lacking the steel reinforcement or are cross plys. I'm fairly certain something needs checking, could also be speed rating.

ETA, does look good though.

Hoosiers not legal for road use, just for the track