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No good to me. Would've been interested if they were all 17 x 8 like you originally said.

What brand are the wheels?

Bugger. Hit quote instead of edit.

No budget limits ya reckon? Ok, for starters replace all rubbers and trims with brand new Nissan bits. Obvious. Complete respray, probably not in a factory colour but something not too lairy. Kinda like the BMW metallic blue/green. Hmmm. Good set of lightweight, forged wheels, 18 x 8 all round. Standard looking, apart from being slightly lowered. Handling, not looks is king. I wanna drive the fusker. Carbon body bits where practical, which would probably mean just bonnet and boot (painted to match the rest of the car). Chassis bracing. Front and rear towers obviously but some extra as well. Maybe a half cage. No back seats. Stuffit, I sit in the front. Stereo, ABS, battery and anything else possible located where the back seats used to be, under custom panels upholstered to match the rest of the interior. The idea here is to improve the F/R weight balance and keep the CG as low as possible. Keep the little RB20 just for the hell of it but fit a six speed box. Mildly work the donk (ports, etc) and change the turbo (GTRS or similiar?). Aim for 200 atw. Water/air cooler for a nice, short inlet tract to help throttle response. While I'm at it may as well cryo treat the buggery out of everything. Full titanium exhaust (weight). Polish everything under teh bonnet and add some coloured coatings. HICAS long gone, natch. Fit an ATESSA controller. Upgrade brakes to Porsche ceramic (unsprung weight) with decent calipers to match. Carbon driveshaft. Oh yeah, standard suspension arms redone on either chrome moly or titanium for less unsprung weight. Same for every other bit of steel I can think of. Full carbon undertray with diffusers for teh stealthy aerodynamics. Braided brake lines. Can probably add fifty other details to this list as well. Basic aim is to keep teh little 2 litre for sentimental value, have it looking just about bowling club stock and not too loud so da oinkers don't bug me, get rid of every bit of unnecessary weight, set the bastard up to handle like a go kart and give it a nice little power hike. Simple. EDIT: Oh yeah, a full sized spare wheel. No space saver crap. Plus if there's no budget limit, get a Zonda for a daily hack.

Grab the Top Secret V-12 Supra. You should be able to pick it up cheap now that the show's over.

Ok, teh beast is an R32 GTS4. Front wheels: 18 x8, offset 29mm. Rear wheels: 18x9, offest 35 mm. Tyres F & R: 235/40/18. No mods to fit. However, once the car is lowered and a camber correction kit fitted the rear guards will need lipping. Could be run lowered with excessive camber ( was when I bought it ) but that's dumb anyway. @ subie: You'll be f**ked on the rears, mate. Guards will need lipping at least, judging by my car. Dunno about the fronts but don't like your chances. I intend to change to 18 x 8 all round.

This is simple mate. Like T187 said the RTA will only let you go 15mm bigger in overall diameter without getting an engineer's cert. If you want to do the calcs on any wheel/tyre combo it goes like this: 1/ Start by converting the wheel diameter to millimetres. I'll use my car as an example (R32 GTS4). Stock size is 16 inches. Multiply by 25.4 to get 406.4 mm (yes I know the .4 is stupid but bear with me). 2/ Work out tyre height. Stock width ( 205 ) multiplied by profile ratio ( 0.55 ) multiplied by 2 = 225.5 mm In this example 55% profile is the same as 55/100 which is 0.55. Times 2 coz tyre height is added twice. 3/ Add the wheel diameter to the tyre heights to get stock overall diameter of 631.9 mm. Cool? I'm now running 235/40/18's. The numbers for this combo are: Wheel: 18 x 25.4 = 457.2 mm. Tyre: 235 x 0.4 x 2 = 188 mm. Overall diameter: 457.2 + 188 = 645.2 mm. 645.2 - 631.9 = 13.3 mm more diameter than stock = no worries. Speedo error = 631.9 divided by 645.2 = 0.9794, so at 100 k's the speedo will read 98, assuming it was accurate to start with, which it probably wasn't. Bugger all difference though.

Rim width and offsets?

Are you prepared to ship the wheels or is it pick up only?

Meh. Slack effort. If you're going to stack a Veyron you ought to do it properly. Endos at 350 k's FTW.

Well maybe it might come from there^^^^^^^^

Well if there aint no wire there you're going to have to put one in aren't ya? How about seeing an auto sparky or a tuner that chips ECU's? They'd be able to sort it for you.

Yeah but make sure you install an R32 tacho. If you install an R32 taco the salsa will run all over your instruments and drip in your crotch.

Well by the time all the people who said Houghy should be kicked in the face have posted their apologies here this thread will be quite long methinks.

What he said.

Had sex with a syphilitic goat by the light of the full moon whilst tripping on acid.

Hey, I'm familiar with Wiseman's. Are you? Because we're not talking about cutting a few donuts in a car park. Let's get this straight: his stunt was king size stoopid. End of story. Yeah I've done some stoopid things in the past but 1/ I don't boast about them, 2/ I learnt not to repeat them and 3/ I wasn't endangering anyone else. All the kid had to do was say "yeah, I made a f#$kup. Will know better in future" and everyone would've been cool. M3GTR: take one chill pill three times daily with meals. If symptoms persist see your doctor for a reality check. Peace, love and mung beans.

He didn't say any of those things. You just been dumped or something? Ease off on the sake dude.

Different situation. If you're on the Wangan by yourself at three am that's your business. Doing skids in the middle of Wiseman's on a busy day is just stupid, doubly so if you can't control the car properly.

Big time. I didn't see the vid but going by that description you need your arse kicked Alex. Lose the f#ckwad attitude before you get into real shit. You're not doing yourself any favours pulling stunts like that.

Sticking pins in the testicles is also very persuasive.

Arseholes. It should be legal to put contracts out on people like that. Best possible use of the 5 grand. Hope you get your car back.

There's a Ford Anglia with a worked SR20 in it running around NSW. It's a Ford (keeps the olds happy), they weigh about 800kg and they look so granny standard that no one is ever gonna take it seriously. Power to weight ratio is insane. I've also seen an Anglia with a worked Ford 4 litre six in the front. Major firewall mods needed but it went like a rocket and handled too. This second one would definitely keep his olds on side but realistically I don't think any of the projects mentioned in this thread could be done for 5 grand. If you can prove me wrong though I'd love to see the results.

My 2c: this is the best idea yet. Max sleeper doofus grandpa value, cheap as f#$k, good engineering.

I reckon just go with what you like and stuff everyone else. Ya can't please all of the people all of the time.