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The not so filthy beast, wheels, nuts, tyres CAI & VAFC

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Post by NafemanNathan » Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:32 pm

Looks great Alex :) The wings will look great left carbon against the black as well 8) (Never sure about carbon fibre wings against other body colours, unless Racecar).

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Re: The not so filthy beast

Post by A1ex » Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:34 pm

Rhys who had the car before Dino did the box. The wheels are a 45 offset so pretty standard, think they'll look ace with the wings :-)

The box is great, I do find it has some strang noises tho. On throttle it's fine but it has a bit of a rattle on overrun in higher gears at lower rpms. Think it's down to the FD but don't really know.

Just need to bring the power down the rev range a bit too. My lude was making 185 at 5500, whereas this is quite sedate by comparison until the vtec wakes up. Will see how dropping the vtec effects the power curve on the dyno day
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Post by A1ex » Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:37 pm

Cheers nath 8-)
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Post by A1ex » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:35 pm

Soooooo, my wheels arrived today. Had to get them on to see how they look even tho I haven't got any tyres yet.

IMO, they look very 8-)

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Got to decide on tyre sizes now, got a feeling with the change in offset (55 down to 45) that standard 215's may be too wide :think:

Also done a bit of fibre work;

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Post by craig_jdm » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:39 pm

looks good man advans are swweeett :D could you do a carbon bit like that for me almost exactly the same?
I hit the limiter in my h23 vtec still didn't kick in

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Post by wurlycorner » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:49 pm

A1ex wrote:Soooooo, my wheels arrived today. Had to get them on to see how they look even tho I haven't got any tyres yet.

IMO, they look very 8-)

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Something missing there, but I can't quite put my finger on it?

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Re: The not so filthy beast Advan wheels, lots of pics :-)

Post by A1ex » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:37 pm

Carbon fibre wing?
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Re: The not so filthy beast Advan wheels, lots of pics :-)

Post by A1ex » Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:54 pm

It's been a busy couple of weeks, got the vafc installed;

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Made a cai from some left over aluminium pipe;

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And got tyres fitted to my new wheels with new wheel nuts too;

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Pushed the boat out in the tyres too, the first set I've bought new in about 3 years :-)

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Re: The not so filthy beast, wheels, nuts, tyres CAI & VAFC

Post by W1ggz » Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:32 pm

The wheels look great man really nice. Liking the CAI as well

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Post by NafemanNathan » Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:50 pm

As said, the wheels look great Alex :)

But where are these carbon fibre wings?...

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