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[cheeky_chops]

just sent speedline an email re wheel weight - not that i dont trust your bathroom scales Sam!

[mags993tt]

I hope those scales are wrong. They were next on my mod list but I thought there would be a lot more benefit

[Thorney]

I was told they were a 'little' heavier than the Turini's which are 7kg's.

[cheeky_chops]

I was told they were a 'little' heavier than the Turini's which are 7kg's.

a little?? At the moment they are over 50% heavier

I will be well fcuked off if they are, i dont want to go rallying in pig iron boots

[Whiteboy]

oops

[SPLAM]

I don't know if my scales are correct or not, maybe it was because i had to put them on at an odd angle. Anyway i have just fitted them and done about 15 miles in torrential rain, all the way back from work on what is normally a very good fun B-road but it was about two inches deep in water. First findings are that the steering is ohso direct at about 30mph, thats about all i could gauge, could be wrong though as i was griping the wheel so tight waiting to float off into a ditch. Piccy when it stops raining, but for now here is my delivery van.

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[clipping_point]

Cool car!

[cheeky_chops]

Cool car!

What makes it even cooler is having a set of 048's in the back

[SPLAM]

Cool car!

Well it has stopped raining so here are a few piccys, i havn't put the centre caps on yet as they need the black treatment along with window surround, lights, fuel filler.

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[SPLAM]

Another.

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[SPLAM]

One more.

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[SPLAM]

All i've got to do now is learn how to drive it.

[SPLAM]

Cool car!

What makes it even cooler is having a set of 048's in the back

I asked the tyre people to fit em to the mini, i thought he was going to hit me.


Then i was waiting to in there waiting room, a bloke comes out and says to me there is something wrong with the wheels, so i follow him to where they are and he picks up a wheel and says you have no chance getting them on your Lotus.

[Ratspants]

i havn't put the centre caps on yet as they need the black treatment along with window surround, lights, fuel filler.

...and black rear badges (to match the VSE) and then a black, de-badged front V!



Will be interested to know how getting the bits coloured black goes as I've been intending to do the same thing for a while. The black V wasn't to hard, black badges were easy. Windscreen surround could be tricky and fuel filler surround doesn't come off despite the screws suggesting that it ought, looks like it will have to be sprayed in-situ.

Ben

P.S. ...and smoked side repeaters, but don't bother with the black, turbo lights as i think it makes the car look squinty. The silver in the headlights gives them definition.

Edited by Ratspants, 25 August 2004 - 02:10 PM.

[trescoman]

All i've got to do now is learn how to drive it.

and turbo'd

[Marco Polo]

Windscreen surround could be tricky and fuel filler surround doesn't come off despite the screws suggesting that it ought, looks like it will have to be sprayed in-situ.

No, the Fuel Filler Ring can be removed... A kind of a seal is put between the clamshell and this ring that may look like the ring is glued... That's not the case...

Just pull..... Softly !

[SPLAM]

Cheers for the tips. Bletch have you recieved your wheels yet, if so can you get em on your scales.

[Chuck]

So far the weights I have measured. AO48 Front 8.5kg tyre only Rear 9.8kg tyre only Speedline Wheel Front 10.7kg wheel only Rear 11.2 wheel only I shall be fitting them on Sunday, so will measure tyre on wheel weight and orignal VXT wheels.

[speedyK]

I don't know if my scales are correct or not, maybe it was because i had to put them on at an odd angle.

Er... you did weigh them by subtraction I hope?

Your weight = W

Your weight holding a wheel = Y

Therefore, Y-W = weight of wheel

If you just put a wheel on the scales by itself it will be far less accurate.

Chuck's measurements, if done this way, are a big disappointment. Compared to the Lotus light weight hubs and Speedline multispokes, the VXR set up would be still struggling with a serious unsprung weight disadvantage.

N/A stock front 9.8kg, N/A stock rear 11.6kg

Speedline VXR Wheel front 10.7kg that would be heavier than standard, wheel Rear 11.2kg
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