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Excellent link mate, thanks!! I was surprised to read about the subaru tyre pressures.. hang on i'll quote; *chin stroking*

good point, if I machined them they prob would be too close to the the AP calipers. in that case, I might get the 215/35/18 tyres and see how we go. I guess you'd use spacers for more offset, but new wheels for less offset

jees.. name and shame I say. save the rest of us the bother, should we encounter him.

John, so as per oobster, you should have had 225's on yours? maybe nothing is necessarily so, ay.

The technical description of offset is the sticky-outeyness of the wheel ! how much it 'sticks' out. or to put it another way how much it sticks 'out'

nice one - I've heard those tyres are great! ahhhh! i've not heard that before! where are these 'rules', because I never got a copy so can I put 215's on my current rims?

that turbo is tiny not much bigger than that shotglass Oh.. wait.. thats a PINT glass! wow, nice turbo.

I'm very excited now about my next mod spree - the handling!! whoo hoo! but one problem I need to get sorted is the arch grinding on the tyres after a sharp dip in the road or a landing after a rise - escpecially if the car has passangers. I've had them ground right back so its not as bad as it could be, but still there. I wanna be able to get air on this thing not baby it. and escpecially when I get the new coilovers its gonna sit lower too. firstly; I got the superleggera's from peter fai17 (ie a newage) so the offset is probably out a bit for a classic. So has anyone ever heard of machining the wheels to take the Offset back a bit? If so what do you know about it? second; I wonder if I can safely change the tyre size on these wheels and if that is likely to help? They are 225/40/18 just now. Does anyone know If I could put, say, 215/35/18 on the same rims and how that would affect the handling and the grinding? I'm looking to get the goodyear asymmetric eagle f1's and don't want to rip em up on the arches! Hopefully I'll be all done by the time Knockhill 15th June comes around!!

will be good to see it running mate!! thats surely not enough time to learn your new set up... LIKE YOUR STYLE!!

swweeet mate!!!!!! looking forward to seeing that at knockhill!

Ahh, its you!! I was at SW motorsport dropping of my scoob yesterday and steve was talking about this conversion, its gonna be all ready and waiting for you when you get back from Iraq.. you lucky b433742d!! Top guys, I spent a bit of time just looking round all the cool stuff going in other peoples cars.. and his brother stuarts killer scoob.

EEK! my god, that looks horrific! glad nobody is hurt..

Needin some new rubbers soon, so just trying to find out something; What exactly is the deal with changing the size of your tyre? I still get a bit of arch rubbing on some cornering or landings, and I thought it was the offset of the alloys, but maybe a smaller profile would help? also - can you change the width of the tyre? surely that depends on the wheel?!? what are the effects of changing the width / profile of the tyre you use?

autotrader gets a lot of exposure. I can guess why nobodys mentioned it, but in my experience it works. as suggested on another thread a cheap simcard would be a good thing to advertise your phone number, cos you tend also to get lots of exposure from overseas conmen. If i didn't already have my scoob i'd have it off you mate, its lovely.

nicely laid out question my friend.

can you ask him for his details, judge his reaction to your question, then you'll get more of a feeling about him. If he's genuine he won't have a problem, and will understand your concern. If your worried after that then yeah, i reckon keep it somewhere else for a wee bit.

Enjoying the thread, and learning a lot!! Everything looks so shiny .. and you're making it look so easy!! It makes me want to try and tinker with my engine, but then it passes.

good on the guy ! buy it, thrash it, fix it, thrash it, fix it, thrash it.. better than - buy it, garage it.

do you have coilovers or anything? or did you just go for the arb, alk, dr's? My car is a blank canvas as far as suspension mods go, so wondering how to first approach it.

done done and done bought the box off Snet and getting sent straight to SW motorsport so should be kerb crawling again in a week! I mean, er, ....

THERE'S SOMEBODY TRAPPED INSIDE!!!!! I've just bought some engine degreaser and a clay bar in an attempt to lick my wounds!

yeah I was, but there was some kind automatic bidding system on it so didn't get it.. And the snet guy hasn't got back to me, so i'll try him again now.

wowee - now thats a scooby! sheee puuuurty

peter, thanks I have my eye on that! and cheers sefar for posting.. I've got a plan though, and it could work out exceedingly cheap if it works. I'm going to buy an identical box that has 2nd gear busted, for dirt cheap, and I mean dirt cheap, and get SteveW to work his magic to make one good one. I wouldn't lose too much if it doesn't work and THEN i'll probably just buy that one from snet snot. I've pm'd the guy anyway on snot to say that I could be interested!

lol the good news is just relentless! thanks for all your help today mate! i've learned a lot.