LY Clio 200 EDC Trackday Shoes (Undecided)

[Ricardos]

Been toying with changing the wheels on the Clio for a while, just for a change or use them as a second set for trackdays. It's been a right royal pain in the arse trying to find a second hand set in 18s as the OE wheels have a ridiculously high offset of 55 with a 7.5J width. Aftermarket 18" wheels tend to come in 8J and nothing high in the offset. The EDC actually also come as std on 17s, if you hit the Lux pack option when buying the car brand new that gives you the black 18s with the red calipers.

So trawling Ebay like the magpie I am I buy these 17" Team Dynamics Pro Race wheels. The tyres bar one are shot to pieces and the wheels seem to have been refurbed by Stevie Wonder. Anyway, the idea is to put some semi slick trackday tyres on and refurb the wheels myself.

So they're off a Honda Civic Type R, 17" on a 7J with at ET40 offset. Today was trial fitting firstly to make sure the offset works and second whether I like the look of them on the car.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Nice wheels.

Where are the pics of your shoes ?

 

[Knuckles]

I normally hate td1.2s on everything but that really pulls them off

Did you need spigot rings or are they a straight fit? And go up a size in width/profile if you can, I think a nice chunky section tyre would look mega on that

I was going to say check my project thread for refurbing track wheels but photo bucket are bellends.

 

[Ricardos]

Team Dynamics wheels come with a 73.1mm centrebore so I've ordered a set of spigot rings to fit 66.1mm. I've also seen a set of Nankang semi slicks 225-45-17 for 250 which should work a treat.

 

[Knuckles]

Team Dynamics wheels come with a 73.1mm centrebore so I've ordered a set of spigot rings to fit 66.1mm. I've also seen a set of Nankang semi slicks 225-45-17 for 250 which should work a treat.

I run ns2rs in that size on track and they're epic for my talent. Being mildly average lol

 

[MarkCup]

They look good!

 

[Ricardos]

Just undecided on colour, so refresh the silver or go black, or light metallic grey.

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah I think they look spot on.

Probably light grey imo

 

[Knuckles]

Just undecided on colour, so refresh the silver or go black, or light metallic grey.

Bright silver

Not black.


...isn't light metallic grey just silver lol?

 

[Jekyll]

Pictures probably don't help but they look small?

But I think the silver is doing nothing for them. Needs to be darker imo.

 

[197.]

Alloys look great! They'd look even better in anthracite I reckon.

 

[CrippsCorner]

They look alright mate to be honest

 

[Ricardos]

They look alright mate to be honest :smile:

They looked better in the auction photos, I took a punt and punched in a bid of £155... And won. When I picked them up however, rattle can effort and a poor attempt at that. But I've done a few sets of wheels over the years so I'm happy to do another set.

The silver is a change and yeah I don't mind them, they'd look much better done properly. But then gloss black could look good as the OE are the same colour. I've also had a set of grey 18s trial fitted and they too looked good..... So it's proving to be a bit of a head scratcher.

 

[Knuckles]

Do them the same colour as the front blade

Bargain at that price!

 

[MarkCup]

I'd stick with silver, and a basic rattle can job for track only wheels is surely good enough.

One of the sets I had for my 172 Cup I brush painted, badly, with bright yellow Smoothrite!

Why not go loud with a blue or red?

 

[Scrooge]

I like that

 

[Knuckles]

Rattle can track wheels ftw. But don't do them black. Black is bad.

Do them silver to match the blade and side strip inserts, or anthracite

 

[Ricardos]

I'd stick with silver, and a basic rattle can job for track only wheels is surely good enough.
I'm toying with keeping the wheels on for a while once they're painted as it's
One of the sets I had for my 172 Cup I brush painted, badly, with bright yellow Smoothrite!

Why not go loud with a blue or red?

Do them the same colour as the front blade

Bargain at that price!

That thought did cross my mind as I felt the silver clashed with the front blade colour, I just don't know what colour it is. Yes an assortment of lairy colours such as red, blue, white have crossed my mind for trackdays but I'm thinking of keeping them on for a while so a more respectable option is where I'll go with them.

 

[Jekyll]

Gloss black or anthracite I think, athough I think the latter would work better.

 

[Jekyll]

Perhaps stick up a Photoshop thread with a side on pic? Plenty of people on here with skills to help you decide before you paint them.

 

[Knuckles]

That thought did cross my mind as I felt the silver clashed with the front blade colour, I just don't know what colour it is. Yes an assortment of lairy colours such as red, blue, white have crossed my mind for trackdays but I'm thinking of keeping them on for a while so a more respectable option is where I'll go with them.

Yeah it's nice to have the option to run them daily without feeling like a bellend.

Pop to Halfords or a local paint place and see if they have any medium silvers. It's not quite dark enough to be anthracite and not light enough to be silver

 

[Christopher]

They look so much better than the factory 18s!

 

[Ricardos]

Yeah it's nice to have the option to run them daily without feeling like a bellend.

Pop to Halfords or a local paint place and see if they have any medium silvers. It's not quite dark enough to be anthracite and not light enough to be silver

I think that's where I was trying to go with that 'light metallic' grey quote lol

 

[Knuckles]

I think that's where I was trying to go with that 'light metallic' grey quote lol

That makes sense lol!