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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by jtbo » 08 May 2009 02:00 am

It is only metal, bigger hammer will do :lol:
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by 340GLT » 08 May 2009 03:21 am

Whats the offset on the front lotus wheels dude? i'm sure a solution can be made the offset of the mini wheels is wrong though on decent size tyres, Dish and volvos does work, just need cleverly designed wheels with normal offset and dish....
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by volvosneverdie » 08 May 2009 07:21 am

340GLT wrote:Whats the offset on the front lotus wheels dude? i'm sure a solution can be made the offset of the mini wheels is wrong though on decent size tyres, Dish and volvos does work, just need cleverly designed wheels with normal offset and dish....
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My 15 in wolfraces had about 4in of dish and were 7j. Iirc. Fitted like a glove.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by magnumpi » 08 May 2009 12:47 pm

Adam- not sure what offset the Lotus rims have, shall check later.

Could go all JDM style, run the Lotus up front with Minilites out back? * Edit- No was thinking they were also 13's for a minute there, which they aren't :? :oops:

Still think banded steels would look sh*t hot though.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by volvosneverdie » 08 May 2009 01:18 pm

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Still think banded steels would look sh*t hot though.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by magnumpi » 08 May 2009 02:59 pm

Funnily enough, i was looking at those the other day, being skint though can't really do the outlay at the moment.

Got some stuff for sale on RR so may end up frreing up a bit of spare cash, will have to wait and see.
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Post by volvosneverdie » 08 May 2009 03:07 pm

magnumpi wrote:Funnily enough, i was looking at those the other day, being skint though can't really do the outlay at the moment.

Got some stuff for sale on RR so may end up frreing up a bit of spare cash, will have to wait and see.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by magnumpi » 08 May 2009 03:48 pm

Some Celica Supra alloys, Williams manifold, as per on here, thats it at the moment, got some low profile Yoko's going to make their way onto there too at some point.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by volvosneverdie » 08 May 2009 03:49 pm

magnumpi wrote:Some Celica Supra alloys, Williams manifold, as per on here, thats it at the moment, got some low profile Yoko's going to make their way onto there too at some point.
dibs on the yokos if theyre the new ones man. :D
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by magnumpi » 08 May 2009 03:55 pm

No sadly not, they are staying, it's the old low profile ones i took off, well 3 of them anyway.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by SteveP » 08 May 2009 04:13 pm

I always hoped Celica Supra alloys would fit a 300, but alas they're 4x114.3 aren't they?
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by magnumpi » 08 May 2009 04:55 pm

I'll pass on that one, can't remember, but no they don't fit.

I know i had a pic of them balanced in front of the fitted wheels somewhere and they would have looked amazing but i can't find it for the life of me, been all through my photobucket and all my old posts on here, alas no luck.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by xtrmjks » 08 May 2009 07:50 pm

volvosneverdie wrote:
340GLT wrote:Whats the offset on the front lotus wheels dude? i'm sure a solution can be made the offset of the mini wheels is wrong though on decent size tyres, Dish and volvos does work, just need cleverly designed wheels with normal offset and dish....
Adam
My 15 in wolfraces had about 4in of dish and were 7j. Iirc. Fitted like a glove.
Offset mungus.

Unlucky with the lowering probs dude.
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I got 8x15, et15 Compomotive ML's and LOADS of camber..and fit well. :D
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Still think banded steels would look sh*t hot though.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by magnumpi » 08 May 2009 08:20 pm

Yeah your car looks ace on the 15's, hell the whole car is amazing.

I was going to try to keep to 13's as i've just got new tyres but i'll have to see now i think.
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Re: The Battleship, Williams, lowering dilema??

Post by SteveP » 09 May 2009 03:59 pm

I did this really crappy Photoshop a few years ago...

Mk1 Sacrilege as some would say!

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