Nie looking FSO Polonez

[Station]

http://mk2vr6.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=12804

 

I like what he did to this, I'm a fan of banded steels with stretched tyres as well.

[dollywobbler]

Impressive engineering. Right up until those utterly stupid wheels and tyres were fitted. What's the point of going to all that trouble of fitting a nice, powerful engine if you're going to balls it up by slamming it into the weeds and fitting tyres that are utterly stupid?

[MrDuke]

Naughty station

[stuboy]

looks ok.. prefered some fso weller wheels

[Station]

Impressive engineering. Right up until those utterly stupid wheels and tyres were fitted. What's the point of going to all that trouble of fitting a nice, powerful engine if you're going to balls it up by slamming it into the weeds and fitting tyres that are utterly stupid?

 

I've driven over 30,000 miles on wide wheels with stretched tyres and I haven't exploded into a million pieces yet (or killed anyone), and they handle better than standard tyres. You've got to see the 'stretch' is only a couple of centimetres, and you'd have to be going at some silly speed to hard corner to have them somehow come off the rim. I don't know how they're supposed to be any more dangerous than correct mounted tyres - it's incredibly difficult to unmound a pressurised tyre from a wheel when they have the correct psi in them, I'd love to get to the bottom of why people think this?

 

[dollywobbler]

Because I watched a rear-wheel drive Toyota spit both its rear tyres off at Retro-Rides one year. Clearly you can have a stretch too far. It's not how the tyres were designed to be used.

[londonm]

Interesting, up until when the tyres were 'fitted'.

[rml2345]

Reading the thread fully, the Polish chap who built that said the stretch is odd looking and is due to the fact he can only get certain winter tyre sizes.
Anyway, tyres aside it's a pretty spectacular bit of converting. 

[Skoze]

Because I watched a rear-wheel drive Toyota spit both its rear tyres off at Retro-Rides one year. Clearly you can have a stretch too far. It's not how the tyres were designed to be used.

 

That's exactly it though, idiots are idiots regardless. When I get new tyres for the Capri, they're probably gonna be 195s on 8" rims - subtle stretch to fit under the arches nicely. No-one will be killed, and i'll have some nice grippy T1s/ Rainsports to enjoy. My friend on the other hand, has just bought 9" rims and fitted 175s to his Fiesta, along with the hydraulic suspension that's just gone under it. He is a spoon, and I can fully understand why people get upset about that. 

 

I think the Polonez is great regardless. 

[overrun]

I like it. Although it is a repost from the Pineapple forum - where it belongs.