Alloys At Last

[Joel]

Huraaah - found some alloys at last.

 

4 Speedlines with good Falken tyres for £150 from the scrappy. (and an ex-volvo scissor jack thrown in too)

[Guest rizla]

well done joel,looks great and youve even updated your to do list for the winter,guess the next is the hood then

[Guest Tim Norman]

Smart............ but aren't your bonnet louvres facing the worng way. I thought they were supposed to have the opening facing rearwards, or is it just a trick of the light.

 

Bobsmate

[Guest rizla]

ive seen joels car in the flesh,he has one vent on one side facing forward and the other side facing backwards

[Joel]

That's right, it was a tip from someone at Donnington (possibly Mitch?) to reduce the under bonnet temperature and get more cool air to the carb. It works too

[Guest Tim Norman]

Well shut my mouth!!

[Big Jim]

Very much doubt that it's Mitch, but sorry, they are wrong that way round. You want all the air to come through the front, then out via the louvers, if you really want to get cool air to the carb, you could duct it there as Andy Sparrow has done.

you need to change the 'faulty' one around.

 

jim

[Guest ash]

very cool joel,

what car are they off?,ford or peugeot and did you need spacers?

 

ash

ps what size wheel/tyres are they?

[Guest brummy-ade]

joel i see you got rear spacers on your site where from and what cost? as they look well made!!

oh and where about you live? im sure I have seen you driving about?

ade

[Joel]

Jim,

I'm sure Mitch will accept my sincerest apologies if I slandered his good name by suggesting he was handing out duff infomation at Donnington.

 

Someone suggested it, and for what it's worth it appeared to do the trick, but if it's causing an inherent airflow problem then you're right, it needs changing.

 

Ash,

I took them from a Sierra, so it was a straight swap though I might need longer studs as the thread isn't coming all the way through the nut. They're 15" wheels, and without checking I can't be definate, but the tyres are something like 195/50/R15.

 

Ade,

Spacers were from Trackstore. They're machined to fit the Ford hub, rather than the usual universal type.

All 4 stud Fords (eg Escort, Cortina, Sierra + Ford based kit cars) 

24mm spacers bolt to hub using existing studs (nuts supplied). Spacer has studs built in to locate road wheel using your existing nuts. 

pcd 4 x 108, centre 63.3mm 

 

617FD: 24mm- 4 stud spacer kit complete (pair) £38.00

 

I live in a village on the outskirts of Coventry.

[swan]

Joel

saw the car at jigtec last week and it looked good then but looks even better now.

With regards the longer wheel studs, from my own experience I would certainly

say, do it sooner rather than later as we had a stud shear on the way to newark last year .The only reason we knew it had sheared was that it flew up and hit my passenger on the arm when we were driving to the show on examination we found a second one sheared. We did not build the car but there was only about 12mm of thread in the nut .

 

HTH swan

[Guest brummy-ade]

I work in cov so that would explain it then I work all over as I work 4 the law and they keep me busy over there

I bought my hood from a guy in cov

[Guest Bob Rowell]

Car looks good Joel. Is that the standard RHE blue or a special colour?