Lost in the rear wheel well.....

ValveTronic · #1 11-07-2005, 05:25 PM

Well, I now have 18 inch style #99s with Pirelli Scorpion Ice and Snow Tires on my 2003 4.6... the rear wheels look a bit wimpy in the back... I am crestfallen. I've seen a few or you use spacers to correct the problem.. What size do you recommend and where do I buy them? Is there a draw back to using spacers? Also, what if I removed the rear flares and use the stock flares from a 4.4? Would this be feasible and or cheaper?

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ncx · #2 11-07-2005, 05:35 PM

I used H&R 30mm's on the rear all last winter. Can't comment on any other brand. Several of us got them from Turner Motorsport. They were around $170. I see them on ebay all the time too. If you want to see what 18x8.5" rims look like with 30mm's on the rear and nothing on the front look at the bottom of this page.

IMO, it still looks wimpy but it does help. I don't know that changing the flares around each season would be much help.

Quicksilver · #3 11-07-2005, 05:50 PM

And the purpose of these spacers are to..............??

ValveTronic · #4 11-07-2005, 05:50 PM

It looks much better! Are they difficult to install ?

Juanted · #5 11-07-2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ValveTronic

Well, I now have 18 inch style #99s with Pirelli Scorpion Ice and Snow Tires on my 2003 4.6... the rear wheels look a bit wimpy in the back... I am crestfallen. I've seen a few or you use spacers to correct the problem.. What size do you recommend and where do I buy them? Is there a draw back to using spacers? Also, what if I removed the rear flares and use the stock flares from a 4.4? Would this be feasible and or cheaper?

As is normally the case, I've got nothing useful to contribute. I'm merely trying to remember how long it's been since I "heard" anyone say "crestfallen."

Juan

jmh · #6 11-07-2005, 07:39 PM

I have never been a fan of the 30+mm spacers as they change your wheel mounting mechanism from bolts to lugnuts which kind of looks strange.
Also the nuts don't have the shim like the bolts which prevents the wheel to be scratched in the mounting area(s).

I for myself decided to go with powdercoated black OEM wheels for the no-snow winter days and for the few days with snow on the road I have a set of OEM winter wheels/tires. But than again I have a tire place across the road where I can store my wheels and can have them changed in Formula 1 pit stop style (call 5 minutes ahead and I am out in 15 minutes)

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- Jan

ValveTronic · #7 11-07-2005, 08:14 PM

Today's word of the day is "Crestfallen" Our good friend and moderator, Kaefer, can't remember the last time he heard or read the word crestfallen. For those of you still scratching your head, and presumably have a high school education, here is a link to the definition: http://www.answers.com/crestfallen&r=67

Stay tuned! :p

Juanted · #8 11-07-2005, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ValveTronic

Today's word of the day is "Crestfallen" Our good friend and moderator, Kaefer, can't remember the last time he heard or read the word crestfallen. For those of you still scratching your head, and presumably have a high school education, here is a link to the definition: http://www.answers.com/crestfallen&r=67

Stay tuned! :p

lol... Oh, I KNOW what "crestfallen" means. I just can't remember the last time I actually heard that word uttered!

Hey, a couple of weeks ago, I used "hitherto" in a casual conversation with the guys at work. Before I ended the sentence, one of the guys stopped me and said, "Did you just say 'hitherto'?"

ncx · #9 11-07-2005, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ValveTronic

It looks much better! Are they difficult to install ?

Piece of cake to install... really, like 2 minutes.

motordavid · #10 11-07-2005, 09:17 PM

OT and sorry for the Jack...I like words and word origins,too...we/most of us know what the word "means" and its usage, but a quick search turned up a less than satisfying "origin", imo. NEway, I am slightly crestfallen that the word didn't have a more romantic or exotic origin, lol!

BR, md

An origin for this word that means 'dejected' or 'dispirited', but it may not be as handy as you'd like. Our own Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary says that crestfallen comes from the combining of crest and fallen.

We ought to be able to give you a little more than that.

The key is the definition for crest. We're not talking about the kind of crest on the front of a shield, much less a toothpaste. No, this crest is what's on top of a bird's head--a comb, or tuft of feathers, a plume, something of that sort. You can get a pretty good idea from this tufted titmouse.

I contacted Janet Hinshaw, Collection Manager, Bird Division, of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan and asked her about crests and how, or when, they fall. "Well" she said, "crested birds will lower their crests when they're in a submissive position, or when they're ready to attack."

Asked if she knew of any situation in which a bird's crest might be lowered as a sign of dejection, Ms. Hinshaw allowed that she did not. Perhaps this is true only for a certain kind of bird, but I haven't been able to make the connection between a bird's fallen crest and the idea of 'dejection'.

The first recorded reference to the word was in 1589 in something called Pappe with an hatchet: "O how meager and leane hee lookt, so creast falne, that his combe hung downe to his bill." Thackeray uses it pretty much in the way we do today in his 1860 Four Georges: "Slinking back into the club somewhat crestfallen after his beating." But see if you can figure out what Shakespeare intends in The Merry Wives of Windsor, when he has Falstaff say: "I warrant / they would whip me with their fine wits till I were / as crest-falled as a dried pear." There's probably an Elizabethan pun in there somewhere, but I can't find it.

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