1988 scirocco project (shortened bumpers too) by JonnyPhenomenon

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6-14-2010

Thanks man, all credit for the paint goes to my dad. I did everything else, but the prep and shooting was all him. 

I'm really sad to say it, but he was recently diagnosed with lung and liver cancer. He started chemotherapy on wednesday, and while the doctors are remaining optimistic, I am still pretty scared. all those years of smoking and working with toxic chemicals is hard on a guy. 50 years old is too friggin young.

so as it turns out, I might be painting my rocco parts myself this time around. 

6-18-2010

thanks for the l wishes everyone. it means a lot to me. I'm just trying to stay positive and keep my fingers crossed. you never know how this sort of thing can go...

11-14-2010

Sad news...

My father past away last week after the cancer finally destroyed his liver completely. he continued to work right up to the very end, fullfilling his promise to finish his friends 1970 Barracuda. My brother (in law) and I spent the past couple weeks helping him out as much as we could so he was able to finish the car on Thursday the 4th.

By Tuesday the ninth he was gone. 

this picture was the last pic taken of him, when we finished the car on the 4th. he drove the car the end of the drive way and back, just so he could say "There, I drove it..."

Rest in peace old man...

11-14-2011

I think Ive covered this before somewhere in this thread or another, but rather than search for it Ill just run down the math again real quick. (for practice.)

get your thinking caps on...

First, lets remember that the offset, or ET is the distance in MM +/- between the centerline of the wheel and its mounting plane surface.

the stock BBS RM 012 is a 6.5" wide 14" 4x100 wheel with an offset (et) of 33mm.

the stock lip is a half inch, and I removed it to put 2" schmidt alloy lips (which I got from tunershop.com) incleasing the outer rim by 1.5" and thereby creating a 8" wide wheel, and changing the offset to a precicely calculatable degree.

So if the wheel is 6.5" wide and the ET is 33mm offset from the centerline and we increase the width by adding to the outer edge, the offset will reduce by one half of the overall width increase. so the wheel got wider by 1.5" (38.1mm), half of that is 19.05mm, subtracted from 33 is a new ET of 13.95mm.

we can prove this by a little more thinking.

6.5" is 165.1mm. take half of that and the centerline is 82.55mm. plus the ET 33mm puts the mounting surface at 115.55mm from inner edge.

8" is 203.2mm, center is 101.6. since the distance from inner lip to mounting point is still 115.55mm, the ET is simply the 115.55mm minus 101.6, which again equals 13.95. 

oh, and my tires are 195/45 r15 Toyo Proxes T1R