SRowells Diablo 1.8 - Jenvey 45s & OMEX600

[welshpug]

Ew10 is 85x88 xu9 is 83x88

[Eeyore]

Just spent £298 on 4 Michelin Pilot Sport 3s on black circles due to be fitted on Tuesday afternoon.

I spent a while looking into this and I couldnt beat black circles price...


£298 tyres from black circles and fitted at my local tyre place.

£312 tyres from local tyre place and fitted at local tyre place.

£298 tyres from camskill and fitted at my local tyre place (Not including Disposal and I would have to be in to take delivery).

its all to do with black circles buying in bulk and achieving economies of scale.

[Midnightclub]

What tyres are you coming from? Should feel noticeably better if it's budget/mid-range

[Eeyore]

What tyres are you coming from? Should feel noticeably better if it's budget/mid-range

Yokohama's and goodyears.

[Midnightclub]

Ah fair enough then, decent tyres though oodles of grip

[7057sam]

Looking forward to hearing how you get on with these

I've heard alot of great things about them, but they price have put me off as they ll be over 400 for me.

[Eeyore]

Tyres are being fitted today at 4pm. May get some of the brake dust off the wheels first!

[Poodle]

CSB...

[7057sam]

Tyres are being fitted today at 4pm. May get some of the brake dust off the wheels first!

Yep them wheels are f*cking flighty

[Eeyore]

New tyres fitted. It was raining last night but the grip was very good around some corners. The tracking is now out though as the steering is really twitchy.

Garage wasnt too happy about the spacers on the front as it took them about 10 minutes to put the front wheels back on again.

All nice and legal now

[Poodle]

Fitting new tyres won't affect your tracking, either it was out to begin with or you've got another problem. Or rainsports are as crap as i've made out and actually its just the car turning in rather than understeering everywhere. I assume you've scrubbed the tyres in..? If not, they'll feel twitchy and skittish until they are.

[mcglynn]

He was putting on pilot sport 3's I think? Lol so may well be something steering related.

[Eeyore]

Yep I have fitted 4 Pilot Sport 3s. The estate has brand new rainsports on it but they have never been on the 1.8.

Previous tyres were goodyear eagle F1s and yokohamas. The PS3s were only fitted yesterday and ive only experienced them in torrential rain so far but they were still very grippy.

[Eeyore]

Off with the old...




and in with the new!



Still not entirely convinced. Under load there is a lot of vibration which there wasnt before!

[Niall]

Fitting new tyres won't affect your tracking, either it was out to begin with or you've got another problem. Or rainsports are as crap as i've made out and actually its just the car turning in rather than understeering everywhere. I assume you've scrubbed the tyres in..? If not, they'll feel twitchy and skittish until they are.

It was tracked with the previous f*cked tyres so I reckon they were scrubbed one way due to poor tracking, tracked to compensate and now the new tyres are fitted it's out again.

[puglove]

I gotta say i was thinking at fcs your tires were looking very tiered,

what do you think on the rainsports?

[Eeyore]

I gotta say i was thinking at fcs your tires were looking very tiered,

what do you think on the rainsports?

Theyre Michelin Pilot Sport 3s not rainsports. Poodle said they were rainsports and its stuck! As I said previously the estate still has 3 new rainsports on it but one had a blow out

The PS3s are good. I dont know how grippy decent tyres should be but they are definitely better than the old ones and I can put it into corners a lot faster than before.

yeh the previous tyres came with the fondmetals which were off a capri. They had been stored for years so they were very old even before i got them!

[puglove]

I would of thought so the f1s have been discontinued for quite some time now lol

And ment were the rainsports any good on the estate?

[welshpug]

they still do F1's, just not so much in smaller sizes and they are all asymmetric now.

[Eeyore]

I would of thought so the f1s have been discontinued for quite some time now lol

And ment were the rainsports any good on the estate?

So... I thought they were great and everyone said the side walls were soft. The estate had chronic steering which I thought was soft side walls but actually turned out to be a completely ruined rear beam. They were rain sport 2s. For the price I'd say they are great.

[7057sam]

Did the tyre people moan at your lows

nice to see them wheels clean,give us a shout if you need a hand doing your bm baker bits

[Eeyore]

Did the tyre people moan at your lows

nice to see them wheels clean,give us a shout if you need a hand doing your bm baker bits

They didnt moan about the lows as their jack just about fitted under. They did however moan about the spacers. The coilovers made a noise as they lowered the car and they asked if i was running cut springs. I said i wasnt quite that pikey! D: How rude of them to suggest such a thing.

Yeh its a bit different to see them clean isnt it. I dont know whether to do a quick respray on them or not just to get the centres looking a bit nicer. Problem is im using the car all the time and i havent got another set of wheels that will fit... not that these fit anyway...

Yeh i could do with a hand with the baker bm stuff really but time is limited! D: Maybe Ill take next friday off work to do it all.

[Eeyore]

Quick update...

Its been through the car wash so its clean! Ive done some pikey lacquer resprays where the lacquer was peeling to try and seal it up to stop it going back any further.

I lost one of the balancing screws from the throttlebodies which mean i was losing fuel air mix on cylinder 4 and as such I got 200 miles to a full tank of fuel! I met up with Niall at Ace who fitted a bolt in the hole to seal it up and since then its idled better and MPG has returned.



I have now reordered the balancing screw and the balancing tool from Jenvey at vast expense! Should be interesting to see if balancing actually makes a difference.

I havent really got any free time before Pugfest but ideally I would like to get some of the BakerBM bits on the car and respray the mirrors, wiper arms and scuttle panel. Maybe Ill strip the rear out a bit more. One thing I definitely plan to do is make my stripped rear seat upper sections. Ill give that a go later.

[procta]

did you sort the centre cap problem? as i was thinking you might get away with the centre caps from the pepper pots from the Fiestas, as you did get those in a none badge too.
Also i have had tyres that were older than the car! they were p600s and i tell you something, the car would wheel spin in 2nd gear in the dry! They were that hard wearing! the date on them were 1988/1989! so they were well 5 years older than the car at the time.

[Piggy]

Balancing screw and proper balanced setup will make a noticeable difference! Id be doing that rather than painting stuff!

[Eeyore]

I havent even had time to paint things yet! I now have the replacement parts and the balancing tool. Just need to get round to doing it!

[mcglynn]

Well after pugfest/hill runs, can you comment on the tyres?

I plan on also putting 4 of these all round and just curious.

[ginge191]

I doubt the tyres were tested to any extent..

You got the wishbones sorted mate??

[mcglynn]

Why's that? I wasnt there so just curious pal

[Toms306]

Also intrigued now? Sam's on Meyle wishbones iirc!