wheels for my baby

[Luke]

Them front hubs look like sierra to me! im sure all granadas (including the early ones) were 5 stud!

[handbrakeone]

i'll bare the 5 stud in mind. cheers for that i'll delete the ebay watch. cheers steve

[Luke]

Have a look at this van - 4 stud conversion (i dont think id advise it myself with all the height/weight of a transit i think i'd rather stick to 5 - but if its working ok on that van cant be bad!)

http://www.cathburncustoms.com/transit.htm

Ive emailed them to see if they want to join the forum!!! no responce yet!!

Top cossy Transit tho!

[handbrakeone]

i have seen several transit cosworth's and on a four stud set of alloys but mine will still carry a little weight. all the ones i saw were empty. but fast!

[FredTransit]

9 BATTS TO RUN IT. 3X LARGE QUALITY AMPS.4X SETS OF COMPONENTS,3X SCREENS,DVDPLAYER,PS2,INVERTER,12DISC MP3,HEAD UNIT,2X 15" SUBS QUALITY ONES, SUB BOX, O GUAGE CABLE THROUGHOUT,CONNECTORS,FUSE HOLDERS, POWER DISTROBUTION BLOCKE AND MUCH MORE! CREATES 160db OF MUSICAL NOISE.....V NICE!

9 batts!!! Holy sh*t! If ever I am up your way and in need of a jump start, I'll know where to come................ If you can hear the phone/door bell over the ICE that is.

[handbrakeone]

9 batts with a 200 amp alt to keep them topped up!

[Pinto]

The later "ugly" scorpios were only 4 stud, so those fronts are either sierra or late scorp.

Ive never done the conversion before, but im told its possible - it gives the advantages of making the brakes 260mm vented ones up front too

[handbrakeone]

that sounds good to me if anybody has or see's any for sale could they let me know! handbrakeone@hotmail.com

[sixwheelphil]

Hate to bring a negative vibe in, but I have to say, I've had a swb on adapter plates, it made a lot of difference to the steering, heavier and even more wandery. Not good, and on the same van, I've been through the, "you can't have car tyres on that, they've got to be 6ply" thing.

[Ratwood]

HI
I have got adapter plates and BMW wheels on my custom

[will]

handbrakeone, perhaps you can advise on what to demo and what to avoid over here. Though I still need the thing to be able to move once new speakers installed!

[FredTransit]

handbrakeone, perhaps you can advise on what to demo and what to avoid over here. Though I still need the thing to be able to move once new speakers installed!

Watch out for those 9 batteries though! Try Paddington Springs for bigger springs.......

[Luke]

Hate to bring a negative vibe in, but I have to say, I've had a swb on adapter plates, it made a lot of difference to the steering, heavier and even more wandery. Not good.

Phil why do you think that was? did you go very wide? and what (car) tyres did you have on?
in theory say BMW 3 series 15" alloys (fitted with transit commercial tyres) with an ET +42 with 20mm spacers would make less of an offset that the steel wellers that im using at the moment! and after fitting the wellers it didnt seem to wander anymore than before, the steering was a touch heavier buy still fine!

[sixwheelphil]

Luke, not sure why, can only guess that pushing the wheels out put a bit extra strain or pressure on things. Never looked into it, just kept driving.
Didn't go very wide at all, 5.5 or 6.5j, that's all they were, plus the adapter. The car tyres were some low profile part worns I got for nothing, 60 series 185's, or there abouts, it was a while ago, so can't be dead sure.

[handbrakeone]

WILL. the BEST advice i can give you is to STAY WELL AWAY FROM SHELF SPEAKERS (6x9's) as they are crap except for certain uses. all you need is a reasonable set of components in the front only running mid/top....no bass. (spend as much as you can on components) and even a cheap 12" sub like sony explode (no more than £45 for sub) and a reasonable 3 channel amp with a low pass filter and you will be so impressed. e-mail manjitbasin@bassmechanix and tell him stevie vectra sent ya. i love carpets me! ps you anywhere near newcastle?