WTF build thread...
thank you, I had a different wheel choice in mind completely but after so many positive comments from friends and family, I might have to run with the BBS center locks for now. Those are $6000 wheels given to me by Rod Millen. We built a 500hp all wheel drive Toyota celica for the Detroit auto show and these are the wheels that were on that car.
I like performance. When the VW scene was running 4.5” Fuchs wheels with 105 temporary tires in the front in the early 90’s, I stuffed the biggest tires I could possibly fit front and rear of my 1964 notchback. I had 205/50-15’s out back and 195/50-15’s up front.
The car handled like it was on rails.
I ran a 7:10 in the 1/8th mile with that car, pretty impressive for a broke high school kid building an engine in his grandpas garage.
High HP cars were far and few back then.
We used to love taking money from the rich kids in their 5.0 mustangs and the shark looking Camaro’s and corvettes with a chip and exhaust!
The “rubber band” looking tires on the BBS’s are not really that “rubber band” looking in person, they look like high performance autocross or road course tires.
pro touring came out and I’ve loved the performance and aesthetics associated with that scene ever since.
you can drag race a road race car but try road racing a drag race car...
pics are senior year, 1993
I used an early VW bus nose cone and built my own solid engine mounts that raised the engine and transaxle up to eliminate the positive camber that’s inherent with lowing a swing axle car giving a full tire foot print on the asphalt.
Nobody was making these type of modifications back then, now it’s commonplace on drag VW’s...
thank you, I had a different wheel choice in mind completely but after so many positive comments from friends and family, I might have to run with the BBS center locks for now. Those are $6000 wheels given to me by Rod Millen. We built a 500hp all wheel drive Toyota celica for the Detroit auto show and these are the wheels that were on that car.
I like performance. When the VW scene was running 4.5” Fuchs wheels with 105 temporary tires in the front in the early 90’s, I stuffed the biggest tires I could possibly fit front and rear of my 1964 notchback. I had 205/50-15’s out back and 195/50-15’s up front.
The car handled like it was on rails.
I ran a 7:10 in the 1/8th mile with that car, pretty impressive for a broke high school kid building an engine in his grandpas garage.
High HP cars were far and few back then.
We used to love taking money from the rich kids in their 5.0 mustangs and the shark looking Camaro’s and corvettes with a chip and exhaust!
The “rubber band” looking tires on the BBS’s are not really that “rubber band” looking in person, they look like high performance autocross or road course tires.
pro touring came out and I’ve loved the performance and aesthetics associated with that scene ever since.
you can drag race a road race car but try road racing a drag race car...
pics are senior year, 1993
I used an early VW bus nose cone and built my own solid engine mounts that raised the engine and transaxle up to eliminate the positive camber that’s inherent with lowing a swing axle car giving a full tire foot print on the asphalt.
Nobody was making these type of modifications back then, now it’s commonplace on drag VW’s...
