Sam's Proper MX-3 - LT Turbo project *Parting out*
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@70d3adac50=youdirtyfox:
Alright folks, next mod up is these 25mm wheel spacers
I bought off ebay.usa,Wheelspacers on the rear for this application… OK... barely.
On the front? Of a turbo FWD car? Don't do it. Your handling will be buggered, the torque steer will be nasty, and don't start me on bearing loading.
Pushing the centre of the tyre contact patch outboard any more than 10mm on a FWD car is a recipe for disaster. Spacers are hateful devices, purely made for Barry aestethics.
If you want to push the tyre edge out 25mm, do it right - buy an alloy with the same ET offset, but is 2 inches wider than your current wheel. It is my (currently untested) belief that the MX-3 can cope with an 8" rim all around with an appropriate tyre (225, possibly 235). If you really have to, I'd increase the stock ET by no more than 10. If you're increasing the rolling diameter of the tyre, then you can go a little more, but you'll soon create a foul somewhere and have to be very careful.
Someone here will surely tell you the envelope they have pushed to - there are a number of 17 (and 18"?) rim users here, I believe?
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@ee935e9fe6=Venari:
If you want to push the tyre edge out 25mm, do it right - buy an alloy with the same ET offset, but is 2 inches wider than your current wheel. It is my (currently untested) belief that the MX-3 can cope with an 8" rim all around.
Someone here will surely tell you the envelope they have pushed to - there are a number of 17 (and 18"?) rim users here, I believe?
I'll let you know soon bud, my new wheels are 8 inch wide :wink:
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Ive used spacers before Venari so no offence,
but Ive heard it all before.I'll let you both know tommorow if your arches need rolling!
:wink:
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The results are in! :D
With an 8J rim ( mine are 7J rim 195/50/15 tyre with an et35 & 25mm spacer)
you are outside the arch without some negative camber.
and only just in with some negative camber.
So without some stretched tyres, negative camber or arch rolling
the tread will probably be outside the arch with a 8j rim, wich is an MOT fail!
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Needs more Camber :twisted:
Looks good tho!!! :wink:
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@7768a75aa2=HammyGlos:
Needs more Camber :twisted:
Looks good tho!!! :wink:
I'd go more lower before thinking about camber, the wheels need to be tucked right into the arches for the camber+stretch look to work.
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How much lower can your car go? Was it 3 turns you did on the coilies?
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@c6f7dd4e5d=HammyGlos:
How much lower can your car go? Was it 3 turns you did on the coilies?
Ive probably got about another 30-40mm to play with lowering wise.
Do not want to bottom out my coilovers though,
and any more lower is going to become a bit impractical for a daily driver,
but would look nutty 8)Not sure Im bang into the broken suspension look though,
sure going to hammer the tyres in no time…Going to look into arch rolling or turning the spacers back a bit :D
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I wish i could afford Coilies…. :cry:
I'd love to go way low!!! :lol:
btw. bases are in the post bud!!
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One day I will fully deck it, for the track :D
Thanks dude, gimme something else to tinker on :oops:
Right result on the rear set of spacers, its just in
at the top 8)
Taken the front ones off for now till I decide what to
do about them
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7J rim (ET35) +25mm spacer is the same as a 9J rim (ET35), not an 8J. ;)
Stock V6 rims are 6JJ x 15 ET45 as far as I can tell from the intershizzle.
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Yes. Im using 7 inch wide rim + 25mm spacer wich is imitating an 8inch rim.
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car looks sik ! fmic behind that grill ! also projector lights like SstennizZ
what u fink ?
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Thanks Jay,
Mmmm projectors, still not 100 percent on them,
wouldnt mind the brighter light, but
think the stock headlights look better on a red '3,
but if I ever get the car painted white then
black ones fo sure 8)
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Found somewhere that will flare my arches
from 45 quid each :D
http://www.iridiumengineering.co.uk/arch.htm
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Got my new mirrors today :D
wrong base plates, but you get the idea :wink:
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@7d63d243f4=youdirtyfox:
Got my new mirrors today :D
wrong base plates, but you get the idea :wink:
Interested to see what these look like on the car, I still want some Ganador mirrors :( but don't do them for the MX3 :cry: (would be a big job to make them fit as well and costing over £200, I wouldn't like to try).
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@0417bcfad5=youdirtyfox:
Found somewhere that will flare my arches
from 45 quid each :D
http://www.iridiumengineering.co.uk/arch.htmGo ghetto arch rolling with a book and a hammer :wink:
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I have various assortments of hammers yes :lol:
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Another little project I'll be working on
for this car, is these escort recaros my mate
donated to me after selling his saxo they were in :
Going to need reupholstery and a new bolster,
but apart from that they are pretty mint not to
mention very comfatable and great for holding
you around corners :D
Luckily the missus has just bought a sewing machine
thats capable of doing leather, but I quite fancy Alcantara :D