SetH
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Very nice Buzz 
But uhm... start your own thread maybe as I got issues to sort out and want to keep this OT 
[Edited on 20-08-2012 by SetH]
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SetH
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Corsa nut go and look at 10 04 plate 330ci then come and look at mine and make an offer 
Errrrr 5.5K?!  problem is I don't want it I was just curious what you had it up for 
After new rubber and Inspection II I had it up for 5k or best offer on the bay. (slightly less on here I think)
Best offer I had was 4.5k but I turned it down then ploughed a few k into the car to bring it up to what you see today.
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SetH
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Ok so jacked the car up and inspected the arches. No telling marks of where it is rubbing. I thought it might be a bumper bracket that sits very close to the wheel so hammered this out slightly but made no difference.
I think it must be rubbing near the top of the arch. possibly agaisnt the sealent once the arch was rolled and the lip flattened. It stands to reason that as the sealent was applied by hand that there could be slightly more on the arch that rubs compared to the one that does not?
I am assuming that tyre rubbing agaisnt sealent would not leave any tell tale marks either. I am reluctant to shave the sealent down.
Looks like it's going to need more negative camber but do not want to go OTT. Booked it for alignment on Thursday.
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CORSA NUT
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Easy worth 5K I'd say judging by what you've done and the other examples out there!
One thought about the rubbing is that the tyre expands a lot when hot? Maybe that's why it's only occasional. What suspension has it got? Origional shocks and springs?
[Edited on 20-08-2012 by CORSA NUT]
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SetH
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It rubs from cold mate.
Its on coilovers, you didnt really think it was on original shocks/springs with that ride height did you?
The standard MV2 rear is ET 50. The 9" wide Style 32 rear is ET22.
There in lies the problem, it is not a ride height issue. Of course rising it to 4x4 height on the rear and making the car look like something out of whacky races would probably resolve it though.
End of the day I have a stupidly low offset on a 9" rim which is perfect for the look I want but not 100% practical.
All of this is in the thread if you read it
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SetH
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It rubs from cold mate.
Its on coilovers, you didnt really think it was on original shocks/springs with that ride height did you?
The standard MV2 rear is ET 50. The 9" wide Style 32 rear is ET22.
There in lies the problem, it is not a ride height issue. Of course rising it to 4x4 height on the rear and making the car look like something out of whacky races would probably resolve it though.
End of the day I have a stupidly low offset on a 9" rim which is perfect for the look I want but not 100% practical.
All of this is in the thread if you read it
Think I need to create project thread and have this moved in there, Mods?
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SetH
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Jamborina, here is the trim I was talking about.
Is this a standard M Sport offering or Individual?
[Edited on 20-08-2012 by SetH]
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Argh will you lot stop posting pictures of gorgeous E46's please? Makes me want one
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M2RTY
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I have the same trim in mine. Wears hard
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j10E W
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thats just silver cube
it was just an option instead of black carbon cube iirc
quite rare tho not many people went for it
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SetH
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Ah ok, cheers
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Ben G
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ah thats the funky stuff in some z4's. looks very strange, but nice.
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Jambo
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Dads 330 has the black version
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kennySRi
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I've got the black stuff in my 330, looks wank imo
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smcGSI16V
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Also comes in Astras.
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Buzz
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haha,sorry,ive got plenty more pics.
mine does rub on odd occasions but im not really bothered about it.
running rear wheels at 9.5 x 19 at et40
its dropped 30 mm i reckon and also pulled rear camber in a bit
tyres are probably a bit big at 245,prob change them next time for smaller profile,also rear arches are rolled
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big eck
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Cracking lookin wheels the 3sdm 0.05s.
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CORSA NUT
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quote:
Originally posted by SetH
It rubs from cold mate.
Its on coilovers, you didnt really think it was on original shocks/springs with that ride height did you?
The standard MV2 rear is ET 50. The 9" wide Style 32 rear is ET22.
There in lies the problem, it is not a ride height issue. Of course rising it to 4x4 height on the rear and making the car look like something out of whacky races would probably resolve it though.
End of the day I have a stupidly low offset on a 9" rim which is perfect for the look I want but not 100% practical.
All of this is in the thread if you read it
Sorry dude  meant to say just standard shocks. I should have read the post properly.
I don't think changing the wheel colour will solve the problem and that's my only input
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Colin
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That looks like the cube aluminium trim I had I my m3
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cunningham
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http://www.negative-camber.org/jam149/technical/alignment.html
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Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by smcGSI16V
Also comes in Astras.
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Ian
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quote:
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I need an engineering student to do a calculation for me.
Not really, you need sin(degrees of camber) = distance you want the top of the wheel to move / radius of the wheel including the tyre.
225/40/17 gives you a sidewall height of 225 x .4 = 90mm
(17" x 2.54) / 2 = 216mm
Total radius = 216 + 90 = 306mm
.5 of a degree of camber
sin(.5) = n / 306
306 = n / sin(.5)
sin(.5) x 306 = n
= 2.67mm
There's more to it than that because the wheel won't roll around the outer face as that assumes, but I wouldn't imagine it would make it much more accurate. The measurements going in are not perfect for a start.
The camber will also have the effect of moving the wheel away from the arch vertically downwards in addition to the horizontal adjustment in the above calc, in that case you'd need cosine and the hypotenuse (rim) and the difference in the adjacent length is the downward movement.
All of the above also assumes the wheel had zero camber to start with, which isn't realistic.
If you know the existing camber measurement I'll do it again. Although it'll be roughly the same, half a mm for every tenth of a degree.
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Ian
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quote:
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Think I need to create project thread and have this moved in there, Mods?
Yeah whatever you need. Or just move the entire thread is easier.
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SetH
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Can you move the entire thread please?
I did u2u that lovely man willay last night but no response yet.
thanks
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