Knighty

About time I paid you guys a visit! I'll be there!
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Been really slack lately, have been meaning to post but yea...
Finally sorted the wheels last weekend and took a few quick pics before I put the car away.
Happy with the fitment etc, the only thing that bummed me out a bit was forgetting to give the tyre fitters the nice valves that Work sent with the wheels. Oh well, I have them for next time. I also got some Work RS-R lug nuts to complement them.






 

Can't turn your nose up at the extra stiffness you get from having a carbon wang 

I'd love a carbon wang
 

Big black carbon wang is the way to go

Hi Everyone
Here are some of my photo's from this years JAE.
Thanks
Will
 
Our Cars:















p.s. If I missed anyone's car out sorry,
Show N Shine:

Mine is being done when the car is serviced on the 12th. 

There are no dealers down here I would trust !!

Done @Knighty
1. The Minion
2. Deacon
3. Dan J
4. Rich
5. MikeB
6. AJ124
7. Bassett
8. Cal
9. rob275
10. Ztox (maybe)
11. BenMMellor
12. Mike (maybe)
13. S18RSG (maybe)
14. Speedy
15. CanaryWundaboy
16. Merich22
17. Knighty

What an awesome idea! I'd be totally up for this, again if numbers are light I've got a couple of friends who'd be able to come along!
I was in the same boat at japfest OP. I managed to talk to Rob as he was very close by to a car I was admiring!

Just a quick post to say thankyou to the guys over at Fensport for a speedy delivery of my first (of many) carbon fibre trim piece for the 86. 
Fitted today and it looks brilliant. You'll be getting more orders from me in the future! 
Cheers, Sam 

Just a quick post to say thankyou to the guys over at Fensport for a speedy delivery of my first (of many) carbon fibre trim piece for the 86. 
Fitted today and it looks brilliant. You'll be getting more orders from me in the future! 
Cheers, Sam 

Nice little tweak. The silver makes more sense when there isn't quite so much red everywhere.

I never understood why this wasn't fitted as standard. Really need one

Pfffft, all of mine was changed at 2500!!! Never too soon 

More negative camber is all about the handling. Makes a big difference, getting rid of the understeer and the vagueness from a stock front end. Ditto the rear as it allows you to really sharpen up how the car feels and set the car up to how you want it. 
Stance is where you have a stupid amount of camber like over three degrees etc. I set my car up to handle, it's really nothing to do with 'stance' and all that. 

These are my summer wheels (Rota Titan's in 17x9" et42 fitted with continental sport contact 5's in 235/45/17):-

Fitted pic (excuse the state of the car!):-

Wheels and tyres together weigh in at 18.1kg compared to 18.7kg for stock.

2 degrees negative camber on the front doesn't wear the tyres excessively. I have 1.75 on the rear too, again not a problem. It certainly helps the handling and improves turn in. 

Regarding camber. At the front we have a strut with only about 6degrees of castor, so during hard cornering it wears the outside edge of the tyre as the car rolls onto the tyre. Adding a bit of camber can help even out the wear but the side effect is that when you are just driving on the motorway the car is running on the inner edge so will wear thst part out. If you never intended to track the car but like the occasion back road hoon then maybe 1degree camber is enough.

@Knighty Due to the suspension design some camber will wear the tyres less than none on these. Mine has run on about 2.5 at the front for over a year. There is very marginal extra wear on the inside edge. Toe will wear the tyres way more than camber.

Aah thought it was, yeah I almost followed but the ground started to get very boggy, very quickly, so decided against it and just parked up next to my cousins truck and sat in there till it died down. we saw everyone getting stuck and would have helped had my cousin packed his tow straps (Kind of wasn't expecting to use them, haha) 
We came from the North as well, M1 south to 16 I believe then on the A45, soon as we got through the Wollaston we were in traffic all the way to the gates. 
Glad you got out safe though mate! 

My 9J +35 rims look like they'd rub under compression if I didnt have a decent bit of camber up front.

The trouble is, the moment you put aftermarket wheels on a stock car, you will want to lower it. So maybe better to save to get both done. I could barely cope with driving around for a whole three weeks whilst I was waiting for my suspension to be fitted! 

A problem is that a lot of the wider, lower offset wheels will need a decent chunk of camber dialled in so that they don't look silly @Knighty I'd definitely get the suspension sorted with the wheels.
 

I've been to Santapod about five or six times and though I have had some interesting days there, the lack of facilities, getting in and out and the Essex contingent seemed not to help my experiences.
There are tons of other events on at circuits where you can actually go round corners if you so wish, also there are loads of static shows at some really good venues. Look at JAE as an example. Japfest is at Silverstone which ought to be good. Hopefully something will coincide with when you're not away.