kingkarl

I think those ruff racing ones are pretty cool - the polished lip is bad ass.

Similar ones:

These are the ultimate though:

But don't pick the wheels that a bunch of guys over the internet like, choose the one's you like best. After all it's your car and your the only person that needs to like how it looks.

http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible_pg2.html

Well consider this; The air you breathe is already made up of 78% nitrogen. The composition is completed by 21% oxygen and tiny percentages of argon, carbon dioxide, neon, methane, helium, krypton, hydrogen and xenon. The kit that is used to generate nitrogen for road tyres typically only gets to about 95% purity.

To get close to that in your tyres, you'd need to inflate and deflate them several times to purge any remaining oxygen and even then you're only likely to get about 90% pure nitrogen. So under ideal conditions, you're increasing the nitrogen content of the gas in the tyre from 78% to 90%.

Given that nitrogen inflation from the average tyre workshop is a one-shot deal (no purging involved) you're more likely to be driving around with 80% pure nitrogen than 90%. That's a 2% difference from bog standard air.

On top of that, nitrogen inflation doesn't make your tyres any less prone to damage from road debris and punctures and such. It doesn't make them any stronger, and if you need to top them up and use a regular garage air-line to do it, you've diluted whatever purity of nitrogen was in the tyres right there.

For $30 a tyre for nitrogen inflation, do you think that's worth it? For all the alleged benefits of a nitrogen fill, you'd be far better off finding a tyre change place that has a vapour-elimination system in their air compressor. If they can pump up your tyres with dry air, you'll get about the same benefits as you would with a nitrogen inflation but for free.

Nitrogen inflation is nothing new - the aerospace world has been doing it for years in aircraft tyres. Racing teams will also often use nitrogen inflation, but largely out of conveience rather than due to any specific performance benefit, which would tend to fit with the armchair science outlined above. Nitrogen is supplied in pressurised tanks, so no other equipment is needed to inflate the tyres - no compressors or generators or anything.

I vote no more pictures till you get some new rims!

Is that Sl55 AMG still in there? God that is an awesome car.

wow, that looks like a LOT of work. Should be awesome.

I think a beer thread is needed!

does it not look just like the present model?

48.57km per day 339.99km per week 17,681km per year

Wow, the workmanship looks really professional. Almost factory

Am i the only one who noticed the $400,000 supercar in the first picture?

Your e36 looks tuff as.

edit: ah sh*t, should have read above post.

I know its not much but i'd be happy to chip in $20

3700 thats pretty good, isn't it?

How much did the 911 turbo go for?

holy crap that is nice. I'm beginning to think e34's are more awesome than e30's

Anyone who has done 6th form maths knows that.

Oh wait, it's for Americans. Makes sence. Lots of pictures.

did you do first form spelling ?

could they make an uglier car?

refreshing change to see a car that's been extensively modified yet still remain more or less tasteful. The interior especially.

Bet the honda wouldn't go sideways like an e30

what kind of prick would knowingly sell a car with money on it.

OK if i see a 1800cc civic with a 1600 gearbox Ill let you know..

hahaha awesome.

Trackdays are cheap as chips and they should be mandatory!

My car's far too sh*t slow and handles too much like a walrus to be even considered for track use haha! In the future I'd love to get into that sort of thing.

Amateur sh*t, that’s not a drift, that’s a power slide on a roundabout, anyone who finds that impressive clearly needs to get out on a track in a car with a bit of grunt and an LSD and find out how easy it is to do.

Approach corner, floor it and counter steer with your foot still hard up it, not rocket science, my mum could drift a roundabout in her BMW.

Its reckless on the road, the danger thrill element is what makes it amazing, the “risk†inducing testosterone adrenalin buzz fades as you get older and is replaced by responsibility a morality and you realise how utterly gay sh*t like that is!

Bloody kids

Im not a fan of drifting... at all - but i still found the video pretty sick. I've never tried power sliding a car (handbrakies in my corona in the wet doesn't count). But I imagine at the speeds that guy in the video was doing, things would get pretty tricky.

God i wish i could afford to do anything on a track.

I suppose your right though, if jeremy clarkson can "drift" surely anyone can.

Obviously this is extremely dangerous and obviously you'd be a complete idiot to do that in broad daylight with oncoming traffic. That doesn't make it any less impressive however.

The thread is titled nut case for a reason.

so awesome.

Some white ass homo put "LILMRG" on his riced out toyota curren round here. I don't know what they are thinking.

Bet that does some sweet O's. Soo awesome.

that is soooo sick. don't change a thing! You've re-ignited my passion for silver cars.

Try replacing the regulator. We did that last week and it solved the banging problem.