Show me your WHEELS!
#5726
Face it, your car isn't unique. It just has a different outer color for your viper stripes. Your tuning has been done. Your seats have been done. Pretty much everything on your car has been done. Other than the red outer stripe, if you want to point out all of your unique details that I have copied, be my guest. But much like the "follow around NAM" comment, you can't.
Your are a very helpful guy on this board and a real asset. Too bad you take yourself and your car too seriously.
Last edited by MiniJayhawk; 04-25-2008 at 04:54 AM.
#5727
Well, if I did paint the inner lip I would be accused of being a hack because I think someone else did that with a set of Flik wheels. But, no, I don't plan to do that.
They are 17x7 with a +40 offset. The tires are the new Dunlop Direzza Z1 215/45/17 but are very wide. More like a 225 width. They are just about as far out as i can go with this tire/offset combination. The photo from the rear makes it look a little more like it is too wide than it really is. When I put the spring on I dialed out as much rear camber as possible. If it rubs under full compression, I can add a little camber if I need to. The front is perfect after I slid the struts in as much as possible with the slotted strut towers on the R56.
I have scrubbed the tires in a bit and they are outstanding! Excellent turn in and road feel. Can't wait to get them to the track in a couple of weeks.
#5728
I admitted months ago that your car convinced me to switch my original idea from red inner stripes/black outer stripes to Black inner stripes and red outer. Since then, you have popped up responding to photos of my car many times. I have yet to follow you around feeling the need to comment.
yeah, thanks for that...feel better now you've cribbed someone's style?
Nope to the seats - if someone had done it before me, well, good on them. I'd never seen it and surely didn't have an instruction manual....I rounded up parts and fab'ed it up myself over several weekends. Not an easy install and probably the most challenging on my car.
Imagine that....buying the same parts as others vs. building a factory to build my own. Unpossible.
perhaps, but it's people like you who give me pause when answering the multitude of PM's I get asking for advice. Think about that and what you're doing to be an asset to this community.
anybody who knows me knows this isn't at all true. run along now.
#5729
I didn't do a damned thing until you made a crack at me. You couldn't handle a lighthearted comeback. I understand.
#5730
not at all. your continued insistence that you are unique and original is what fuels this. admit you lacked your own vision and I will drop it.
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In all fairness, how can we be unique? There are so many MINI's on here w/ different things. Eventually, someone is going to be replicating someone... For instance, I liked Misfitoy's MlU logo placement, so I did it too (don't have it anymore as I f'd up my old front bumper). In a way, you could take it as a compliment that he followed in your path.
This is another reason why I left the VW scene...Nobody wanted to share their car or mods with others due to the fact that they wanted to be one-offs...it's still continuing today, and I guess those who are this way will never grow up
BTW, I like you PGT (no, not in that way ), you are a leader in this community.
This is another reason why I left the VW scene...Nobody wanted to share their car or mods with others due to the fact that they wanted to be one-offs...it's still continuing today, and I guess those who are this way will never grow up
BTW, I like you PGT (no, not in that way ), you are a leader in this community.
#5732
I'm done with it if you can be.
#5733
My car was unique....nobody else had done the exact same. Sure, some things were copied/replicated elsewhere (as in copying me or me copying someone else I saw that I liked), but none so accurately as your car. That's the thing. I've even said this before - I saw the red/black graphics on a silver Lotus first. There was not a single MINI out there that looked just like mine until now.
If I would have known your goal was to mimic my car...I would have not been so forthcoming and helpful answering your questions. That's what I meant by my previous comment. Your actions have caused me to be less forthcoming and helpful....<pat on the back for that>
We've said all this before...
If I would have known your goal was to mimic my car...I would have not been so forthcoming and helpful answering your questions. That's what I meant by my previous comment. Your actions have caused me to be less forthcoming and helpful....<pat on the back for that>
We've said all this before...
#5734
My car was unique....nobody else had done the exact same. Sure, some things were copied/replicated elsewhere (as in copying me or me copying someone else I saw that I liked), but none so accurately as your car. That's the thing. I've even said this before - I saw the red/black graphics on a silver Lotus first. There was not a single MINI out there that looked just like mine until now.
If I would have known your goal was to mimic my car...I would have not been so forthcoming and helpful answering your questions. That's what I meant by my previous comment. Your actions have caused me to be less forthcoming and helpful....<pat on the back for that>
We've said all this before...
If I would have known your goal was to mimic my car...I would have not been so forthcoming and helpful answering your questions. That's what I meant by my previous comment. Your actions have caused me to be less forthcoming and helpful....<pat on the back for that>
We've said all this before...
If I had gone with black seats, red calipers, a black scoop, red tow hook, and an oversentitive adolescent attitude, you might have an argument.
Last edited by MiniJayhawk; 04-25-2008 at 07:26 AM.
#5739
Yeah, I'm a little less than two weeks away from my wheels...the excitement may kill me...
#5740
if it does, please leave my address with your next of kin. I'll make sure they're compensated for them after they go on my car
#5741
Seriously, I dunno what I'm going to do about 'em, though. Gonna get a set of k-dub's from Ray, so I'm thinking I gotta wait to put them on until I've got the drop.
If the excitement doesn't kill *me* - rocking those with that gap will def. kill some others...
#5743
How about this...get some good taste in cars, auto design, and general aesthetics (if you don't have this already).
Then, spend thousands of dollars, and hundreds of hours to make your car your own. Then bask in the pride of knowing that you accomplished your vision, your car looks great - by all accounts...
Then some hack comes along and blatantly rips off everything you've accomplished...and does an absolutely horrible job of it. You'd be pretty pissed, methinks. An awful lot of people here are not giving PGT enough credit for the class with which he has handled what amounts to the total perversion of his vision of the MINI.
Now, back to wheels.
#5746
You SHOULD do it. I wouldn't call you a hack. I don't know or care if I was the first to repaint a set of Flik wheels this way, but I like the look. I think painting your wheels will be a huge pain in the **** though--cause they will have to deal with painting around the spokes---there's a lot more access to the inner lip on my wheels.
Last edited by OctaneGuy; 04-25-2008 at 09:10 AM.
#5748
I'm not real convinced that the Motegis could pull that off as well, being that there are more spokes, and therefore less of the lip would show.
It has to be said, however, that those Fliks look awesome.
It has to be said, however, that those Fliks look awesome.
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Those wheels are pretty cool though, you gotta drop it another inch or 2 though.
#5750
Cool - 14 spoke wheels - Who carries these? I need a set . . . would make my mini unique methinks - a bit too much wheel gap on this app though.