My Mk4 buildup thread...

[rayray086]

Hey Neil, I just had Falken ZE329 fitted on my wheels. I know they're a farcry from the FK452 in terms of performance, but they stretch very nicely. They've got a really pronounced rim protector and has managed cover the rim even when stretched. They were 195/50 across 8", but I previously had 205/40 Nankang NSII on and they totally exposed the rim .

Falken ZE329




Compared to Nankang NSII


Don't have direct overhead shots on the Nankangs but you could see the edges of the rim sticking out.

[Jarred]

Those falkens are good (by the looks of it) with the little edge they got there covering up the "poke"

wouldn't be a thing worse than gutter rashing your nice ass set of wheels!

[99gti]

I havn't gutter rashed a set of wheels yet, and I'll be overly carefull once I get the LM's on. The P-zeros do have a fair bit of poke on them so I want to try and keep it similar. In saying that, the LM's have one of the fatest lips I've ever seen on a set of wheels so I doubt I'll be able to get that kind of coverage with stretched tyres.

[Jarred]

I havn't gutter rashed a set of wheels yet,...

yet? that's not positive thinking now is it?

I didn't actually think about it matching other tyres. I would think that'd actually be fairly important..

[99gti]

The Bora vents are in and lighting up. The realy make the interior look much cleaner - pretty happy with them for the price I paid.

The wheels - they still aren't on yet. I went rummaging around my old mans garage tonight to see if he had the bit's that I needed and no go. I'm going to see DUB 20V tomorrow and hopefully he might have what the part I need.

Stay tuned to this space for some phat photos soon to follow...

[YellowDieselGolf]

Our cars are distant twins We've both got R seats, BBS wheels and KW coils.

I'm really curious as to how your wheels will fit on the front. My 8 inch ET32 wide wheels barely clear my coilovers (I can squeeze a finger between the strut and wheel - thats all) and yours are going to be sitting 9mm closer to the strut. Then again, mine are V3's - maybe the V2's have a smaller outer diameter?

It's going to be close!

More pics!

[Jarred]

I know Tim had V3's and on his Mk 1 GTI and he had to space the fronts out about 10mm from memory, cause other wise the tyres rubbed the springs. He had the standard mk 1 GTI wheels on too, although he didn't have strech, rather the oppostite actually! (they were fat semi slicks! )

[99gti]

Our cars are distant twins We've both got R seats, BBS wheels and KW coils.

I'm really curious as to how your wheels will fit on the front. My 8 inch ET32 wide wheels barely clear my coilovers (I can squeeze a finger between the strut and wheel - thats all) and yours are going to be sitting 9mm closer to the strut. Then again, mine are V3's - maybe the V2's have a smaller outer diameter?

It's going to be close!

More pics!

I hope you have fat fingers!!! The calculations that I did gave me 5mm clearance, wich was the recomended clearance with the V2's. It is going to be a tight squeeze for sure but doing a search around I found others runing the same final ET that had it working...

[No457 Snowy]

Pete, do you still have the same wheels, I thought the RC's were 7.5" wide ET38?

Snowy

Our cars are distant twins We've both got R seats, BBS wheels and KW coils.

I'm really curious as to how your wheels will fit on the front. My 8 inch ET32 wide wheels barely clear my coilovers (I can squeeze a finger between the strut and wheel - thats all) and yours are going to be sitting 9mm closer to the strut. Then again, mine are V3's - maybe the V2's have a smaller outer diameter?

It's going to be close!

More pics!

[YellowDieselGolf]

I'd go and check how much clearance I have, but I'm stuck inside with the heater on, with the flu!


You're kind of right Snowy, VW 337 and GLI BBS RC's are 18 x 17.5 ET38. Mine are Shotpeened RC 330's (with VW centrecaps), which are 18 x 8 ET32. They both have the same inner position, but my RC's sit 12mm further out towards the guards.