Austarion

these aren't the pics floating around in people's email.. just pics of what the dust did in front of my house.


COMPARE BEFORE WASH AND AFTER








mind you.. it's dirty again thanks to their being dust left over in the trees above.. the wind blew.. and it dropped :S I was trimming the hedges on Friday, and with every snip, there was dust

Even locked in the garage the JD got coated in dust, though I'm lucky that the dust was a similar colour to my car :D

thrash your car would look awesome with a set of lowered coils..

we just hosed my gf's place in brisbane as it got dust stormed again last night..

^ I was thinking the same thing. and when the rear tires wear out I would go to a 225/50/16 to fill the rear guards out a bit more.

thanks guys

lowered coils - will eventually go coilovers, but loweing the car is a bit of a problem because both my driveway and my mum's driveway suck for lowered cars :( but i definately agree it would look better dropped an inch or two..

tyres - yeah, i was lookin that up just the other day.. currently has 215/40/16s on the rears - speedo reads about 10% too high.. e.g. when i'm doing 60 the speedo shows 65ish.. so yeah, seems like 225/50/16 or 225/45/16 is the go. the 50s will be almost the same size as stock, so will probably go those to keep the speedo accurate

Yeh thought they looked a bit small. Tidy looking car mate!
225/50s are on the money.

Going by my maths (possibly dubious but bear with me) changing tyres from 215/40 to 225/50 should raise your car an inch allowing you to drop it an inch onto the wheels without sacrificing any ground clearance :D

I went 225/50/16 on 7s front and 245/45/16 on 8s rear.
Fronts fill the guards a bit better than rear but lowering should hopefully sort that out.

:drool: that is one nice JB you have there thrash.

225/50 on a 7 inch wide rim will make the tyres look like a balloon. Thrash's car looks good with the 215 on what looks like an 8 wide rim.

sell me your rims then you dont have to worry about tyre sizes :D

lol, this thread was meant to be about what the dust storms did... but thanks for the comments fellas, much appreciated :beer

the rims.. 7" wide at front, with 205/45/16 rubber - i think this size is good for the front and will keep it at that. Rears are 8" wide, and 215/40/16 rubber.. a bit narrow, really good in the looks department, but when they do wear i will get 225/50/16, more to get the speedo accurate than anything else, as it is a daily driver. Hopefully this will not be necessary for a while as I have been babying the car :S so no burnouts or anything silly - except for theinitial testing of the lsd ;)

And as for selling them, since otomoto don't sell old wheels anymore, these things aren't easy to come by eh? I would like to upgrade to wider wheels.. i think 16x8" fronts and 16x9" rears would be perfect, so if I find something with a decent amount of dish and width, i might sell these. or i might keep them for track days or something lol

She does have some issues that need to be ironed out.. one of the headlamps refuse to go down, so i keep them up all the time, and that's annoying. I replaced the relay, but that didn't help, so i suppose it's probably a wiring issue. The biggest problem at the moment is that the gearbox makes a lot of noise. When I took it to MRC, they told me it wasn't really a problem, just an annoyance, but i still worry :S They also said the clutch master cylinder needs replacing, and that was the only real problem they could find with the car.

The rear demister thingo doesn't work - it turns on, but the lines don't heat up. And the power steering has started making some noises - lucky for me i have a complete spare power steering setup, so i will take care of that soon. The alarm system is a bit of an annoyance, and the turbo timer is a really crappy BES one - sometimes it'll shut down after 10 seconds, and sometimes it'll shut down after 5 minutes :S This would explain why the turbo was rebuilt - it shut down before i managed to get out of the car a couple if times, right after a long or hard drive. I have a blitz one ready to go in soon :D

The injection was rebuilt as well, there are no leaks, and it runs very smooth.. i'm hesitant to change this one to mpi for now :S The car is bog stock except for the turbo timer - even still has original steering wheel and gearknob

yeah no need to change to mpi if u dont have dramas or arent chasing mega power. i got 13.9s from a stock computer, eci and TC06..

Your wash was amazing, even the number plates changed colour!

redzone wrote:yeah no need to change to mpi if u dont have dramas or arent chasing mega power. i got 13.9s from a stock computer, eci and TC06..

not chasing mega power.. but i do want SOME more power.. i think i will just iron out the issues that it has and drive it for as long as i can and only start upgrading when things start needing to get fixed.

RiceThief wrote:225/50 on a 7 inch wide rim will make the tyres look like a balloon. Thrash's car looks good with the 215 on what looks like an 8 wide rim.

Not toooo bad.
Each to his own I suppose, I don't like tyres streched onto wide rims.
Just something about the rims sticking out past the tyres I don't like and nothing to protect the rims from nasty gutters.

Nosaki Faki wrote: Each to his own I suppose, I don't like tyres streched onto wide rims.
Just something about the rims sticking out past the tyres I don't like and nothing to protect the rims from nasty gutters.

Ditto, my sentiments exactly.