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pos

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Hello,

I'm just trying to adjust a few things on my landy so that it looks a bit beefier and one thing it could do with are some bigger hub caps. At the moment it just has those little rubber plastic like caps which pop over the stud. I'm looking for something which will cover the whole hub if possible but I can't find anything anywhere! I'm looking for something a bit like one of those wolf racing hub caps. Its a 1986 90 on black modulars.

Ideally something like this in black but a little squarer and perhaps a bit shorter too!
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Cheers
-Pos
 
Bromsgrove Defender said:
Hi Pos

Don't know about hub caps but I think wheel spacers and chunky tyres make a huge difference to the over all Beefier look.
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it's already got wheel spacers =) My wheels stick out of the side of the body and the spats just about cover them. The tyres are 235x70 which are about as big as I can go with my N/A without killing it. Could I put bigger tyres on an N/A (taller tyres) or would it kill it?

Cheers
 
Its a depender, you can put bigger tyres/wheels on it till it looks like a monster truck if thats wot you want.

But like you said it would kill it to go much bigger without serious lift kit/different ratio gear box etc.

At the end of the day go as far as you want/can afford and get it as close to what you think looks good. Cos thats why we have Dependers so we can easily make em as individual as we are.
 
pos said:
it's already got wheel spacers =) My wheels stick out of the side of the body and the spats just about cover them. The tyres are 235x70 which are about as big as I can go with my N/A without killing it. Could I put bigger tyres on an N/A (taller tyres) or would it kill it?

Cheers
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What do you mean kill it?

The bigger the circumference the less rpm the wheels have to do, therefore the engine will be going slower which is better, it small tyres you don't want or your N/A will be knocking it head in just trying to do a reasonable speed.

When I put my offroad tyres on, crusing at 70 on the motorway the engine is doing a load less rpm than with my road tyres on.
 
pos
i got
a brand new set from ebay for a quid,bastids didny fit my rims. a few dents on one of them ( me gently hitting with a wee hammer) other 3 still in the wrapper ideal for you if you are gonna paint them .you can have them for nothing just p.m. me and i will post them on
ps same as the ones on the site that was posted BRONCO is the make
 
shadowster said:
pos
i got
a brand new set from ebay for a quid,bastids didny fit my rims. a few dents on one of them ( me gently hitting with a wee hammer) other 3 still in the wrapper ideal for you if you are gonna paint them .you can have them for nothing just p.m. me and i will post them on
ps same as the ones on the site that was posted BRONCO is the make
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PM'd Cheers =)
 
If I put bigger tyres on my N/A, this is an N/A we're talking about here, which isn't the most powerful engine at the best of times, it will totally adjust all my gearing. I wont be able to pull away very quick and it certainly wont get up hills. Are you saying it will be vastly improved? My garage have told me not to bother because it will really slow me down.

-Pos
 
pos said:
If I put bigger tyres on my N/A, this is an N/A we're talking about here, which isn't the most powerful engine at the best of times, it will totally adjust all my gearing. I wont be able to pull away very quick and it certainly wont get up hills. Are you saying it will be vastly improved? My garage have told me not to bother because it will really slow me down.

-Pos
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The NA is not fast, the NA is most powerfull at lower rpm's thats why its not good on motorways. If you stick it in low range and try and pull something pretty damn heavy 1 of 3 things is going to happen, you will move, you will sit where you are and your wheels will spin, you will break something (the rope/chain, half shaft or something like that). Anyway I digress.

So if you can put bigger wheels on it, your engine speed will be less for your road speed. I am not saying your going to be entering into any races but its simple physics that it is going to be benificial.

When I swapped my offroad wheels/tyres for my road wheels/tyres and drove on the motorway I thought my engine was going to blow up because to do 70 it was having to rev a whole lot faster (GPS speed - as obviously your speedo becomes inaccurate).

I can take off a little quicker with the smaller tyres but I can cruise better and go further before I have to upshift with the big ones.
 
badadj said:
When you say 5 - 10 mph is that the speedo reading 5 - 10 mph slower than your actual road speed or faster?
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For easy counting and all: your gearbox is rotating at 1rpm (where your speedo feed comes from), and you have small tyres so for every 1 rpm you go a meter and your speedo reflects this, then you put bigger tyres on, at the same rpm of the gearbox you are now going to go 1.5m but your speedo still says the as it did when your small tyres were on.

So if you put smaller tyres on it will read faster than you are really going, and if you put bigger tyres on it will read slower than you are really going. My guage is almost bang on with my muddys and about 7mph out with my road tyres.
 
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