Just read in the Enthusuaist's Companion that the stock alloys are FUNCTIONAL as well as attractive. They are designed to cool exposed brake calipers. Cool. Don't the Japs just think of everything !!

 

Think I'll stick with me stock ones and just get them reconditioned !!

 

Anyone know of a good wheel reconditioner in the Northwest ?

Originally posted by MAC 1:

Running at stock boost they are,as long as you don't try and slam on at 130mph+.

 

Give the car around 400 bhp and CRAP is not the word!

 

 

They're OK from the back of a TOW TRUCK though....No fade at all!!

 

Originally posted by AndyP:

The wheels are handed. Look on the casting by the part number, there is an L or R as appropriate.

 

Well, stap me vitals, so they are. And I've got both the left side ones on the rear axle with both the right side ones on the front axle.

 

B*gger.

 

Just as well I've got to get new tyres soonish - get it sorted then.

 

Once it got pointed out, bleedin' obvious. But this is after three years servicing by a Mandela

 

You live and learn...

The brake cooling using the wheels effectively has two parts to it. First off, the ducts (as stuart mentioned) under the front of the car push air into the region of the brake disk. Then, the shape of the wheels causes that air to be drawn out through to the outside....

 

Does this make sense???

 

Secondly, the stock brakes ARE shit!!! I've seen bigger disks on Novas ffs. If you think they are good, try doing a track day - you'll be back in after only a couple of laps due to the dreaded brake fade...

 

Of course not everyone wants to do track days, fair enough. BUT I can honestly say it is the BEST mod I have done to my car.. by MILES!!!! R33/34 calipers and disks are a breed apart from the stock parts.

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

Thanks AndyP and thanks Nelson for starting this off.

 

On way home this afternoon, snap decision, local tyre place "please put this tyre on this wheel and this tire on that wheel, then put this wheel on that corner and that wheel on this corner...." balance-y balance-y, align align, psssh pssssh ka-ching.

 

Why bother? Dunno - just feels right to get things right. And no more than she deserves.

 

Thank Buddha that I have J spec and so all the rims were 225s - could have been expensive otherwise!

ROFLMFAO

 

Listen, before you all have me stamped with the "I had my wheels on wrong way round and back-to-front!" man can I point out that it wasn't ME! LOL

 

My car at that point had been seen by many supposed specialist Z Mandellas, SE, Misseur Duff, AndyP etc. etc.

 

Nobody spotted what was wrong until I mentioned to Iain that I was baffled as to why my front tyres were more expensive than my rears that I put on a week before?!?!?!?!?!

 

Be careful and check your wheels as I had left and right round the wrong way and my rears on the front, fronts on the back!!!

 

We all know what happened to me after bringing my car back from Watford post autobox rebuild don't we?

 

Wet and slippery off a roundabout chasing Mrs T who made off at warp speed in my beloved Captain Kirk and I booted the Z, spun a few times and was saved by grass verges, mud and bushes! I did get 7.1, 7.6, 8.0 and 8.5 from the judges for technical ability though.

 

Anyway that mistake can't be made now, try getting 18x10 rears with fcuk off offset on the front. ROFLMFAO

 

P.S. stock brakes are thomas the tank! Even my Stillen kit has improved the braking 150 percent IMHO so god knows what the big disks and Skylark calipers does for you.

 

 

 

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"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land

on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of

a cat and drop it?"

Steven Wright.

Easily done m8ey - as I said, 3 years, they've been like that! When I pointed out to the nice tireman the R and the L on the wheel castings, he said "What's R for - rear?" - yes, really

Quite a few of us have had this, Mat Lad discovered some strange configuration on his car aswell not long after my effort.

 

But don't the stock wheels have FL, FR, RL, RR on them?

 

If your car is UK spec you should have bigger wheels on the back.

 

Imports are the same size all round but obviously still left and right etc.

 

 

 

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"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land

on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of

a cat and drop it?"

Steven Wright.

Given the standards of most high street "fitters" shouldn't that be "FFS" on each wheel

 

Dunno about UK ones as mine is J - as AndyP said, they've only got L or R on. In fact, hang on a sec......

 

 

.....(I don't believe I just did that)...

 

On all 4 wheels, there is a stylised logo that looks as if it could be made up from JWL.

 

On the left wheels (both the same, remember, Japanese spec 225s)

 

JWL L 40P05

 

and on both rights

 

40P00 R JWL

 

What does this mean? Who cares - it's just Timmy made me go look so I told the rest of you!