Jump to content

Philplop

Premium Member
  • Posts

    7,912
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    6

Everything posted by Philplop

  1. I'll have third dibs please. ? Money waiting as soon as you say the word. Cheers.
  2. Very possibly. They're et38 if I remember correctly, so by the time you've added te adapters to convert from 5x100 then they might be too pokey.
  3. It was an old man's car, it was my dad's! I had just borrowed it for the weekend. Who in their right mind would want a Vectra?
  4. Haha. It was when I'd gotten the VX220 and was going to sell the Lupo, then the VX was a pain, so I came in my Dad's A6, then I ended up swapping back to the Lupo to sell the VX. The A6 was cool! It wasn't uncomfortable at first, but I think the cheap coilovers worsened quickly and it became pretty bumpy. Of course it was on Bentley wheels with 35 profile tyres, which didn't help. But what's not to get? He wanted a car with 5 seats and a big boot. Lowering it didn't take that away.
  5. Yes, but there are a couple of little bits you need to do. I had to bend the mounts a bit to get them closer to the hangers on the car. That's if you're going for the cat pipe too. The manifold touches the plastic bit that the undertray connects to, so I had to trim around it, and the undertray won't fit back on. It's a bit of a fanny on to fit, but it does give a performance improvement. At least mine did with a 100 cell cat.
  6. Had my GTI for 6 years. Sold it for a mk2 TT over two years ago. I like the TT, and it's nice to drive. But it's not fun. I don't love it like I did the Lupo. But saying that, I don't often 'miss' it. Only when I see an old photo of it or when convoying to shows with other Lupo GTIs. My brother has it now, so I see it often, but it doesn't hold the same appeal to me now it's back to standard.
  7. New Minis are 4x100. And 56.1mm centre bore, if I remember correctly. 0.5mm around the circumference of the centrebore? That's nowt. A little bit of sanding would sort that out pretty quickly I would have thought. And it's BOUGHT!
  8. Should be fine with 195/45s. 195/50s will be too big.
  9. I just placed my aerial underneath the top centre part of the dash, easy enough to poke it up there, didn't require any fixing in place and worked perfectly.
  10. Bluloop (now MrColinG, if you want to find his thread) did it in his first GTI I think. Size wise, the fronts are fine, the rears are actually too narrow, so he had the outer edges built up before having them retrimmed.
  11. Philplop

    Wheels for GTI ?

    Silver! is pretty old now, he gets mixed up sometimes. His wheels are 7"x15".
  12. Philplop

    Wheels for GTI ?

    If you had a 6" wheel and a 7" wheel, both with the same offset, then there would be half an inch extra towards the outer arch, and half an inch towards the suspension strut. My car was pretty low, so that's probably why it rubbed compared to others of te same offset. And as Ray said, tyre brand and model can affect it too, different makes can be totally different widths/shapes, even though they're the same size. I wouldn't go bigger than a 195/40/16 on a Lupo. Have you had a look at willtheyfit.com? It's good for getting your head around how it all works.
  13. Philplop

    Wheels for GTI ?

    The offset of a wheel is measured from it's centre point. So if you had a 6" (J actually refers to the tyre mounting face shape, not the width of the wheel, but most people use it wrongly. Including me until quite recently ) wheel and an 8" wheel with the same size tyre fitted and the same offset, the tyre would sit in exactly the same place on the road, if that makes sense. You might get away with those size wheels if you're only slightly lowered. I had 7" et30 with 195/45 and 8" et25 with 205/45 and they both rubbed. I would say that although you may get away without rubbing, I don't think it would look very good with the wide pokey wheels and lots of arch gap. Narrower tyres are fitted to prevent rubbing, so it's common to see 7" wheels with 165/50 tyres fitted. It's all a bit of a grey area on legality, but there is a range of recommended fitments for tyres that allow a certain amount of stretch. So 165/50/15's are permitted for use from 4.5" to 6" wheels, for example. That's just a bit of a guess because I can't find the guides on the Bridgestone website. They're usually hidden on the manufacturers sites somewhere though.
  14. That's the kind of thing I was trying to explain. Good to see it works. Wish I knew it was that simple before I paid a fortune to get my ones made up! After fitting some Volvo seats in our T5 it's made me a lot more confident with stuff like this.
  15. How does the rear bar attach to the runners of the Lupo? I can't figure it out.
  16. I had mk5 ones in too. I had mine made up by a retrimmers, but after seeing how they did it I think I know a better way. They made the seats sit too high. All you need really are two bars that runs side to side of the mk5 seat runners. The front one needs to have a right angle bracket on, or be box section, to bolt up to the front bracket in the middle of the Lupo floor. Like the front one in this diagram I found. The rear one can be bolted down to the top of the rear seat runners. You'll need to drill a hole in each runner for this. I may be over simplifying things here, you may need to have an extra bit or two welded on to raise or fix the rear of the seat. And after typing all that I found some pictures of mine. As you can see, mine had little bits at the back to bring the runners in to the mk5 width. I would say this should be welded flush to the frame above, rather than being below it, as I found the rear of the seats sat too high. The bases were a bit too flat for my liking, I'd have preferred the seat to feel more buckety. You could try a flat bar/box section straight across the back, rather than building the frame upwards like mine. That might make them too low though. I suppose you could cut the bar to length and sit the seat on top to see if it sits right. 99hjhm made some for his and shaped the bar at the front, so it bolted up in the middle but dropped down at the edges to let the front of the mk5 runners sit lower. Hope that helps a bit. You might also have more luck searching for fitting the seats into a mk4 Golf/Beetle/Bora/etc, as these have the same fitment as the Lupo and it may have been done more often. I was actually thinking about this the other day because my girlfriend has a Beetle now and I was eyeing up some cheap Scirocco seats on eBay. They went up a lot though, as I expected.
  17. I've seen them behind RMs before. Whether they were et33 or had used spacers in not sure. I think you'll be fine though. I tried high offset RSs on mine once and the split rim bolts only just caught the caliper. And that was with massive Wilwood 4 pots that only just fitted behind the Bathursts.
  18. The Lupo GTI 5 speed does not share the same box or problems as the Polo GTI 5 speed.
  19. Think that was just a rumour. They're just changing premises.
  20. Good coilovers aren't just for handling. They're comfier and better made, so they last longer. Get the inox ones and they won't sieze up like cheapo ones do. Buy cheap, buy twice.
  21. Don't worry about the coilover threads being equal, just adjust them so that it's even side to side. Measure the floor to arch height. Will have to let it settle between adjustments though. The car has different weights on different corners, gearbox, etc, so that's why it won't be even.
  22. If it is a GTI engine, it's far more likely to be from a Polo GTI than a Lupo GTI.
  23. Yup, 50's are too big.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.