Ben vs Mk3. Round 2.

[Njay]

i wish i did that before i built my a3, oh well at least its something different

[patmould93]

:O THAT PAINT! Looks like it just came out of a showroom! Incredible!

[Ben J]

Thanks Pat.

Anyway, have been doing calculations for a while and measuring things up hundreds of times, but yesterday I decided to actually do a proper test fir of how the car will sit when I get the wheels finished, and tried a couple different sizes I was considering to get a real feel for how it would look.

How I set the wheels up to easily adjust the "size" of the lips:


I had to take the front brakes off completely to get the wheel on there, will need a 6mm spacer in the front to clear the brakes. I took this into consideration when setting the widths of the front wheel, so when I actually finish them this is where the edge of the lip will sit, the face will sit 6mm further out though. I borrowed a fender roller and gave all the gaurds a good massaging, happy with how the back have turned out although I did make a bit of a mess of the fronts, as you can see in the pics.

First sizes I tried where 15x9 (2.5in lips) and 15x10 (3.5in lips) as I really did want to run a 10, just because its very rarely done on the mk3's. I have no doubt I could run it if I wanted, but I think it pokes a little too far which will mean the car will sit much higher in the rear (currently it actually tucks a couple mm of the 15 inch wheels in the back, if I were to have 3.5cm of poke it would rest on the tyres stopping the car from sitting so low)


Next I tried 15x8.5 and 15x9.5. This is the size I plan on running now I could go slightly wider in the front, but it wouldn't match the back.






Including the spacer in the front, final specs will be 15x8.5 +10 and 15x9.5 +3, going to run a LOT of stretch too, probably 194/45 all around. Ill swap on the stock wheels whenever I take it to the track so am not too concerned about it, im sure it'll get some hate though haha.

Pretty keen to get some tax back and hopefully finish these

[killingwithasmile]

9.5 looks good, camber shims in the rear to accomodate the 10's? Is the above shots aired out?

[Ben J]

I already am at about -4.5 degrees camber in the back, so id need to be at about 6 to fit 10s which is a bit extreme, I think too much camber doesnt look that great.

Front is aired out in photos, back isnt fully. When I air the back out it sits lower than the lips of the wheels haha. The photos have it very roughly where I think it will sit with tyres on, although after looking at photos of 195/45/15s on 9.5s it may sit a bit lower

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[KI11Z]

good decision on not going with more camber! that fitment looks spot on man though it might just be me but whenever the rear has more camber then the front, it just doesn't look right? .....killing it though!

[Ben J]

good decision on not going with more camber! that fitment looks spot on man though it might just be me but whenever the rear has more camber then the front, it just doesn't look right? .....killing it though!

I agree about the matching camber, I love it when front and rear camber matches, but would be pretty hard to get the same camber I have in the back in the front though unfortunately, not to mention it would eat tyres. I might give the fronts another degree or two though so its pretty close, no idea what camber the front has at the moment, havent had an alignment since swapping suspensions for the roadworthy.

[KI11Z]

as long as it's close...i've run 3.5deg in the front since ever and never been bothered with bad tyre wear or whatever.... can't wait to see them done

[VR28LT]

nice man

8.5s and 9.5s is gonna be dope

Ben have you decided on where you are going to buy your lips from ?

[Ben J]

Not sure yet, thinking tunershop maybe as they dont charge much for shipping but I'm still yet to really look into it. I did look into all of it like a year ago and found somewhere that did awesome prices, but I've forgotten where that was now