magnet

yeah but i got bored of reading the debate!

Who cares about his insurance ay!

insurance sucks

flat4

well, i tried ok, another couple of ideas for lowering your insurance premium

limited mileage - great if you don't use it for work like me

very high excess - nothing like offering to pay the first grand to lower it a bit


kev

flat4

oh, and a picture of the car, just so we remember what this thread is all about




kev

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Well I think it's stunning in the photos and some people just need to shut up and leave the guy alone. If you don't like it then who cares it's not your car or money.

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Alberick

But those wheels look sooo cheap, because I don't know them and they are not made by OZ, therefore I don't like them

Weenie

Popeye and Shrek,

I think your main problem with this car is that you dont like the fact Dave has got this car at the age of 21. When I gues your much older than that, and you have been saving for something quite as good as this since the age Dave is now.

Your just both making your selves look a pair of tw*ts now!!!

Paul_M

PS In case anyone doubts these are an official STi part (probably produced by Rays Engineering and licenced) have a look here.

Third wheel down, sold for JPY46000 which translates to around £240 per wheel in Japan - likely significantly more if they are officially available here! Makes OZ wheels appear to be budget parts in comparison

Amorphia

Just so i can pop my 2p's worth in on this debate ... been driving performance cars since i've been 20 ... Audi S3 (a beginners performance car i know ) then moved onto a P1, had the car since i was 23, insurnace cost £850, fully comp, class 1 bis use.

Started modding the car when i was 24 ... currently my insurance is £1338 (again, fully comp with bis use, £500 excess). If Dave says his insurance is as low as he say, so what?!?!

Jesus, let it go move on ... PS Dave, nice wheels m8, after i put the *ahem* OZ 18in Prodrive rims on, handling went down the pan ... ended up with buying some forged 18's instead (3kg lighter per corner). Handles much better, but not as well as those VOLK's i bet.

floppy dave

hey guys i thought the thread had gone a little quiet, so heres some more piccies for you all to have a mooch at after i spent about 6 hours with the auto glym........

dump valve and turbo timer are on order on the near future! yayy

edited for link.... doh!

http://members.aol.com/ScoobsX2/More_My_Scooby_Jul_2003/More_my_scooby.htm




[Edited by floppy dave - 7/21/2003 5:56:25 PM]

[Edited by floppy dave - 7/21/2003 7:45:54 PM]

Boro

iTrader: (1)

VERY VERY VERY nice

Enjoy it as it is mate

Paul aka Boro www.freewebs.com/scoobynetmembers

Weenie

Hey up Dave, whats happened to your quarter mile time slips?? Thought they would have been up straight away??? You just waiting for me to do my run first?? Ull be waiting along time, cant afford to bust another gearbox. Gues ull have to learn how to change gear!!??

floppy dave

eddy my son how am ya? yeah well i thought it rude to show off, and theres always gonna be some fool saying that they arent for my car or sommit!
has moffit reared his ugly head yet or is he still hideing with his beemer between his legs?

Mad Gypsy

I'm 27 with full no claims, 3 points, tracker and cat1 and I pay £1,480 with Direct Line. They insisted I have a tracker.
This is on a 98 Type R

BlackStar

what a stunning car you have there Dave!!!
but I have to agree with Pop and Shrek: the wheels look so awful... but as you seem to be a really nice guy, I offer you to buy your wheels

even people over here in Switzerland do know, what Rays stands for. it's hard to believe that there are chaps(?) driving a STi or P1 and not having a clue about all the culture in the big east, the origin of the Impreza!

Dave, wish ya much fun with ya monster

Alberick

Agree with Blackstar, it's surprising so many people don't have a clue...

I already offered to swap those crappy wheels against my ultra super Italian quality OZ Racing wheels....

floppy dave

lol..... its funny how lots of people dont really like my wheels but they are all willing to swap them for somethin? thanks for the comments

im assumin the chap that owned it b4 me was going for the jap street racer look thats so popular over there at the moment, nice and stealthy

[Edited by floppy dave - 7/22/2003 12:38:42 PM]

cactus jim

hey dave, great car, who cares how much the insurance costs!

i too have a 98 type r, what plans you got for modding?

i keep finding threads talking about type r's blowing up. are you planning to put in gauges or knocklink/lambda for protection?

heres mine.....

Paul_M

BTW Just to fuel the fire

The wheels are called Volk TE-37, they are forged from aircraft grade alu and if they're the same size as mine (most likely) they are 7x16" and weigh 11.2 lbs per wheel. An example I see quite a lot on Scoobs are the Oz Superturismos which are cast alu and in the same 7x16" size weigh 17.6 lbs per wheel.

In 17" format the TE-37s weigh 15 lbs, the Superturismos 23.3 lbs. The Oz Prodrive 10-spoke that I quite fancy are 20.4 lbs in 7x17" format.

Everyone buys different wheels for different reasons, but if you value unsprung weight and strength (funtion over form) then the Volks are hard to beat - I have a list of thousands of wheels at various sizes along with their weights and there are very few lighter than the Volks at the same size. In fact at the 7x16" size the lightest wheel I have listed is only 0.4 lbs lighter than the Volks and is a racing wheel made using semi-solid forging.

Click here to read an interesting page on wheel construction techniques and the effect on the finished product.

[Edited by Paul_M - 7/22/2003 11:42:21 PM]

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Weenie

Aint seen that fool since then. Picked up the trailer today. Towing the car upto town end garage tomorow.

Daryl

ROFL @ Popeye and Shrek. If you can't understand why his car has those wheels fitted, you should just keep quiet.

But you didn't and now everyone can see how stupid you are......

.....and then you make it worse by going on about his insurance

Paul_M

Originally posted by Alberick:
Not exactly... but I almost have those wheels and quite like them myself although judging by this thread I might be letting myself in for some major criticism for having the stupidity to admit to it!

Mine are also 16" but are in Gold, they are STi wheels (called Rays... guess where that comes from ) and have the STi logo in the carbon-effect centre cap along with the Rays logo.

I like the design of them and noticed that they are a helluva lot lighter than the 17" TSW wheels on my other car although I've never weighed them. Admittedly I do intend to upgrade to 17" wheels eventually when I can afford it (probably gold P1-style 10 spokes) but I'm very happy with what's fitted just now as Dave is with his.

They are kinda deceiving in pictures IMO due to the way the spoke goes in towards the rim making them look smaller than they look in reality - I noticed this when I got some pics of my car before picking it up that the wheels are much nicer in the flesh.

Anyway each to their own and here's a quick pic of my car for comparison no flames please . All the best with the motor Dave I'm sure you'll enjoy it like I do with mine regardless of what anyone else says. PS My car is dark blue mica not black, can't really tell with this pic.



[Edited by Paul_M - 7/9/2003 1:47:27 AM]