My Inferno on Trophy Wheels!

[MARK A]

Here a few pics of my 182 cup having been treated to a set of shiney new Trophy wheels. Cheers to maz for the advice on sorting them and Jaybee Renault for doing such a good deal! How many other Infernos are there about with these wheels?? any idea??

 

[mas]

minted, looks ace mate... now lower it!

 

[Tom_E]

nice mate, always wanted to see one with them on. quite tempted.

get it slamed!

 

[Scott 172]

looks spot on that mate

 

[dannyboy172]

looks fantastic!

 

[Gaz]

minted, looks ace mate... now lower it!

Like this one

 

[Blue4Ever]

Looks awesome, ride height is like mine...needs lowering desperately...hope my apex come tomorrow.

 

[philmots]

Im liking the look of that mate. nice one!

 

[darren_rallye]

Hi, Mark..

 

[Ali]

By god that needs lowered..

 

[GarethM]

nice fella looks like a trophy, needs lowering

 

[mas]

here you go, light tints, coilovered...

 

[al]

Looks fantastic mate!! Really does.

Ignore the others, DONT lower it!!

Renault probably spent thousands developing the cup suspension and setup, for someone to say aaaahh f**k it!

 

[mark.k@GDI]

Looks fantastic mate!! Really does.

Ignore the others, DONT lower it!!

Renault probably spent thousands developing the cup suspension and setup, for someone to say aaaahh f**k it!

so did every other car manufacturer wen developing there cars!!

bung some ledas on it and ave them set up properly and jobs a good un!!

 

[M1TCH]

Ignore the others, DONT lower it!!

Renault probably spent thousands developing the cup suspension and setup, for someone to say aaaahh f**k it!

says it all there....lol


looks nice, but not sure I prefer it to the standard wheels.

 

[al]

PMSL!! ^

Looks fab now.........as is!

 

[Chili Red]

Looks good! Your car looks very dark orange in those pics though, they look better when the sun hits them.

 

[Kirsten]

really like it!

 

[Steviant]

Looks fantastic mate!! Really does.

Ignore the others, DONT lower it!!

Renault probably spent thousands developing the cup suspension and setup, for someone to say aaaahh f**k it!

No 'aaaahh f**k it' is what everyone says when the OE cup rear shocks fail.

Coilovers is the way forward.

 

[Peperami]

Your car looks sweet wrc!

 

[Steviant]

cheers rex!

i really like the inferno colour with the speedline turinis. Looks wicked.
A set of Eibach sportlines would make it sit just right.

 

[Maz]

Mark the car looks stunning .. would love to see it in the flesh .. nice work and no problem about the advice .. glad you got a good deal

 

[MARK A]

Thanks for the comments guys, glad you like her! I really liked the standard wheels when I bought the car and still do really, I just think that the Turinis are more suited to a cup model. The idea of the cup is that it's lighter weight and and stripped out. The old wheels were 9.5kg each and the Turinis are 8.3kg each! Thats quite a weight saving. The fact that they look better is a bonus!

I don't subscribe to the idea of lowering the car for the sake of it. I think it looks fine as it is and TBH it's performance that is my main concern. I will use it on the track from time to time but most of my driving will be on the good old British B-road. Compromising the suspension travel and stiffening the spring/damper rates is not something that appeals to me really. I think the standard set-up is great. I understand that a set of coil-overs will allow me to tune the ride to how I want it but I have no issues with the current set-up. Maybe a set of coil-overs would be a worth while performance upgrade in the future but I'm very wairy of messing up the handling on what is already an great handling car. It seems stange that Renault had to go to the length of developing expensive piggy-back dampers to improve the 182 if lowering the car was all it needed.

 

[Ash87]

looks great like it is