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Ditto really, sorry.

I think the original 180 alloys in the pic below look great - would not want to change mine. If I had a 120 or a Mk1 I would try to get some of these. Of your two - gold paint is dated now and the second ones are a little like Speedlines so you'll look like a Subaru wannabe (he says with a Pro Drive spolier on his boot lid.... erm :slap.

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Trouble is with those Mk2 wheels, they are damn heavy.

The photos above haven't come out too well, one is graphite and one a dark grey.

Will that 'really' make any difference to a road car. Are you planning on an event in the vehicle where milli-seconds will be at stake? Have you optimised all of the easy engine parts first like the fuel filter, spark plugs, air filter etc which would make your car more efficient/faster for half the price?

I'm a keen cyclist and I see the guys who spend£500 on a set of wheels, £250 on a carbon seat stay and £400 for a carbon headstock just to save half a pound of weight when, FOC, they could just stop eating burgers for a week and lose 4 lbs from their own ass........ :agh::slap:

I really don't get the wheel thing on a car that already has reasonable alloys which were good enough for the suspension engineers at MGR. Back in the day we were happy with 5.5J steels on an RS2000 - maybe I'm just getting old.

But Bigfella, each to his own mate - if it gets you off go get some new wheels. :biggrin:


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A lightweight flywheel is going on, torsen type b diff, along with some big brakes and lightweight wheels.

Should make quite a difference!

Big Fella, that's great and I wasn't trying to trash the mod just asking the question about cost/value. Personally I wouldn't do this to my day to day road car which I have to live with in all circumstances... and the wife driving it to th'Asda. I'm sure she'd love the high revving scream in first with that flywheel LOL. If I were building a track car then OK I can see the logic especially the brakes and a dif but each to his own. No worries.

Great posts about the wheels and weight - that unsprung thing is interesting. From my experience of pursuit driving in urban conditions we used to bend a lot of the lightweight ones though so I guess you get what you pay for i.e. lightweight AND strong will be more expensive.

There is also the fuel efficiency argument thinking about it - weight is the second biggest influence (after combustion performance) on fuel consumption and emissions so I guess ANY reduction is helpful at the pumps.

Good thread


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