LY 200 EDC Wheel Option 2

[Knuckles]

lol I'm lost. Do you refurb wheels or are you a machinist?

 

[Ricardos]

lol I'm lost. Do you refurb wheels or are you a machinist?

Neither, for some reason the engineering shop have that sign on the wall. I'm paying a company to machine the centres for me. I've DIY painted a few wheels over the wheels and I'll paint these ones too, only if they work out on the Clio otherwise I'll just sell them on

 

[Knuckles]

Neither, for some reason the engineering shop have that sign on the wall. I'm paying a company to make kine the centres for me. I've DIY painted a few wheels over the wheels and I'll paint these ones too, only if they work out on the Clio otherwise I'll just sell them on

Ah! I see. I can't wait to see them done. Turinis look epic on everything. Did you say they're going white?

 

[Ricardos]

Ah! I see. I can't wait to see them done. Turinis look epic on everything. Did you say they're going white?

Thats the plan, I think they'll look good in white against the LY. Something different but not lairy in colour.

 

[Jekyll]

They'll look great rich!

 

[Ricardos]

They'll look great rich!

Cheers Mark, I get the feeling I might need to drop it a bit more on the 17s.

 

[Christopher]

Proper job. They'll look awesome Rich.

 

[Ricardos]

Proper job. They'll look awesome Rich.

Appreciate that Chris, so in a round about way it seems the 8J works with the offset by asking a company on FB who are selling Turinis in 18".Trouble is I'm tempted to go up to 18s now! So my 8J with ET49 could work on paper..... Fingers are crossed still

 

[Ricardos]

Typical, they're done but it's lashing down with rain so I'll try them tomorrow.

 

[-Jamie-]

Mega! I would stick with 18s though

Even on my Megane I've went down to 17x9s for track

 

[Ricardos]

Mega! I would stick with 18s though

Even on my Megane I've went down to 17x9s for track

As they came on 17s std and I'm lowered on Cooksports I think I could get away with it... But yeah I am tempted to go 18s

 

[Ricardos]

Excuse my French, but f**k me they're close!! But work! So there's a 45mm gap between the rear strut and the inner part of the wheel. Up front there's a 13mm gap between the strut and the wheel, the 8J brings the rim closer to the strut so there's absolutely no tolerance for them to go in any further, thank god they don't need to!

The back has always been more critical than the front so I started with that first, it literally sits inside the arch, literally! To be fair it's borderline. Up front I'm more concerned about the gap between the strut as the wheel sits in the arch a bit more so I'm happy with that, the fronts will work.

Now I know the centrebores have been machined spot on I've taken the other 2 to the engineering company. I've also asked them to skim the backs by 4mm to give me more tolerance on the rear, I know they work but I'll be much happier with them tucked in a tad more and for £10 each to be skimmed it's worth doing while they're having the centrebores machined.

I know I know, quit with the waffling and dish out the pics!

 

[-Jamie-]

As they came on 17s std and I'm lowered on Cooksports I think I could get away with it... But yeah I am tempted to go 18s

Sorry I meant stick with 17s lol

 

[Ricardos]

Sorry I meant stick with 17s lol

Lol I did wonder, at least the tyres will be cheaper.

 

[Sir_Dave]

Look great to me!!
One thing that id be concerned about is the 13mm gap to the strut though, thats without a tyre remember, & the tyre will add width!

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

Looks ace so far. Can't wait to see them fitted properly.

 

[Knuckles]

Stick with 17"s
Keep Slight lows
And Fit a cup racer spoiler.

But as dave says, you might need some slight poke on the front after tyres are fitted

 

[Jekyll]

But.....

They look fantastic and so good in gold on the LY!!

 

[Ricardos]

Everyone's raving about them looking good in gold with the LY.... I just don't get it, well I don't see it, maybe I'm missing something. I was all set to go white with them but now tempted to put a tyre on the wheel then fit back on again to see what's its like.

As for tyres I might go with a 205 width which is what's on at the moment but a 45 profile. I get the other 2 wheels back today so the set is all complete.

 

[Jekyll]

Rich, there's a chap on FB that does tyres cheap and I think in your size too.

 

[Christopher]

Silver. The gold looks horrific against LY.

 

[Djw John]

Yeah gold and ly does not work at all. The wheels do but they would, they're Turinis on a Clio.

 

[Ricardos]

Silver. The gold looks horrific against LY.

Like I said earlier I must be missing something or getting older as EVERYONE is saying stay GOLD. It's like I'm the only one not seeing the biggest trend out at the moment.

I still say white but knows what will happen. I'll paint one, put a tyre on and fit them... And hate it, there's nothing worse than trying to pre empt a look. I did it before with funnily enough your old RB, I bought a set of OZ tarmac rally wheels in white then painted them dark anthracite. Had new tyres put on, fitted them to the RB and instantly hated them and wished they were white with the original OZ graphics on.

 

[Knuckles]

I'm with you on the no gold thing. Doesn't work with ly

I considered looking at a yellow r27 with ly wheels before I bought mine. It looked horrific

White ftw

I was going to do my speedlines white, but ended up buying a litre of BMW space grey with my mate for £40 so chucked that on them, I was quite glad I did as the photoshops and other pics made anth speedlines look crap.

I got lucky that space grey matches the decals on the r27 very well so I think that helped

 

[Jekyll]

Thing is, it's only paint.

You could always just buy a few different colours and give them a very quick spray and fit them tyreless to the car to see the difference and/or what you prefer. That's way it's £7ish for 3-5 different colours and a bit of time. Haven't even got to sand them down, just colour them.

Wheels and colours can really make or break the car as you know.

I like the gold, but it could look different from your pics to the them in the flesh.

Silver, white or anthracite are the ones I think. Silver would look fresh, white would look more racey and anthracite would look oe and match your grey parts IMO.

Oh the choices!!

 

[Ricardos]

I'm gonna try white first, it's the colour of choice I wanted to go with based on the above cup racer photo and the white cup race car on white Turinis. 99% in my mind it works the other 1% says a clash with the blade and side trims.... We'll see, half the fun should be in the working out.

 

[Christopher]

Personally, I'd go for silver with yellow Speedline Corse decals.
Enough of a hint to make them different, but not chavtastic.

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

The colour is a tough call. Definitely not gold. White could look brilliant or awful. I'm unsure but it will be interesting to see. Silver or anthracite are safe but both will look good.

 

[Ricardos]

Personally, I'd go for silver with yellow Speedline Corse decals.
Enough of a hint to make them different, but not chavtastic.

I've seen the stickers on E Bay, again colour choice is key. Worried something like yellow would look a bit like colour marking the tyre make name in white. They do the OE Speedline blue, black, grey which could be a choice

 

[Knuckles]

I'm gonna try white first, it's the colour of choice I wanted to go with based on the above cup racer photo and the white cup race car on white Turinis. 99% in my mind it works the other 1% says a clash with the blade and side trims.... We'll see, half the fun should be in the working out.

A bit of white vinyl will sort out the blade and side trims

 

[Ricardos]

A bit of white vinyl will sort out the blade and side trims :smile:

Why are you lot doing this to me lol! Actually not a bad idea.

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

I think white vinyl on the car would look awful. If it was a race car maybe, but I wouldn't do it on a road car. I think white body work details on a road car instantly make it look like it's worth about 50p

 

[Ricardos]

I'm soo busy but absolutely itching to spray a wheel now just to get an idea!

 

[rs 1an]

White wheels need to constantly cleaned

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

I'm soo busy but absolutely itching to spray a wheel now just to get an idea!

Do it. Then we can see too lol.

 

[Ricardos]

Oh well, here goes 🙈

 

[Ricardos]

A dusting of white primer this evening, hopefully if I have time I'll trial fit on the Clio this Sunday to get an idea of how it looks

 

[NorthloopCup]

You know what colour would work, and work quite well? Liquid yellow. There, I said it! The black of the tyres and the red from the calipers would break it up enough to pull it off I reckon. And pull it off well.

 

[NorthloopCup]

Just look at the way the light is hitting the gold in this pic - it's got a very liquid yellow look to it near enough imo.

Fortune favours the brave. :wink:

 

[Jekyll]

Richard is so undecided he text me a final pic last night of he's choice of wheel colour.....

This way it caters for all needs and decisions.