mk1 rim fitting

[gldgti]

sorry, meant to say that ET40 is about the most offset you can have on a mk1 without spacers (with a 6" wheel) for the reason synchro mentioned about rubbing on the struts.... hence the standard ET38 mk2 wheels are great, and my late model wheels at ET35 even better.

[syncro]

your right..... it had something though... some kind of chassis stiffening mechanism..... possible some plate fillets welded inside the engine bay somewhere or something.... i dunno.. something

You might be thinking of a swaybar.

[NiGhtCRaWlEr]

sorry, meant to say that ET40 is about the most offset you can have on a mk1 without spacers (with a 6" wheel) for the reason synchro mentioned about rubbing on the struts.... hence the standard ET38 mk2 wheels are great, and my late model wheels at ET35 even better.

most of the UK (and Euro) 'Dub' scene will utilise wheels with an offset of between 35 to 40 as standard, but with the newer 'Cleaned' Euro look, there seems to be an influx of smaller rims with spacers being used .. such as porche teledials etc theres a few of the guys over her that have ET's at about 25 or so but the wheel rim is possibly only a 12 or 13 inch diameter

[gldgti]

sorry about that.... your right syncro, however heres the little peice of information that i was thinking about, for everyones general interest...

"The bottom of the two front struts were then linked together with an anti roll bar to increase stability under hard cornering. At the rear of the car the trailing arm suspension arrangement was also supplemented by the addition of a further anti roll bar. Once more the damping rate was changed and the springs were shortened. To complete the suspension transformation, the car was equipped with 175 section tyres on 5½-inch rims in place of the standard 155 tyres and 5-inch rims. According to measurements taken by Volkswagen engineers at the time, these modifications served to cut the maximum roll angle whilst cornering from 6.5°, to under 4.5°. At the same time the maximum sustainable cornering-force attainable at a steady speed was raised from 0.73g to an impressive 0.81g" (Motor 1976 p 7).

[syncro]

Sounds like a German translation. Who was the journalist?

[gldgti]

not sure of the auhor of that part, but the document it came from is a PhD thesis.