Stanced XUD Estate (IT'S ALIVEEEEahahaha)

[cwspellowe]

Right, some good progress today. Still no car, so the old Sundance was our test mule yet again.

Firstly, the 9J's. As seen in my earlier picture, there's quite a bit to go before the tyre seats properly. This proved to be a PITA yesterday, the gap was too big to explode it on as the flammable stuff dispersed out the sides of the tyres instead of bursting the tyres on, and the inner tube trick didn't work as, when the tyre started to stretch, the inner tube popped out and the tyre shrank back to normal again. Singed pretty much ALL my facial hair yesterday and was walking round last night with a rather funny smell coming from my face. Result.

Lesson learned, did a bit of research last night and came up with a new plan of action.

We (Me and Xav) first got the tyre over one bead using a combination of inner tube to seal one side and explosion on the other. We also changed explosives, having seen cheap crappy "Insette" hair spray used successfully on various YouTube videos. Yesterday's combo of brake cleaner, easy start, Right Guard and Old Spice was doing nothing but cause frankly rather dangerous fires left right and centre, whereas this stuff seems to be explosive rather than flammable. Safety first and all that...

First bead popped on absolutely fine. But that still left the problem of the massive gap to the other bead. At least one side was sealed anyway, meaning all we had to do was close the gap between the tyre and the bead before exploding it.

We created this rig:



About 100kg of dead weight in the form of some random stones about the garden, and a series of bricks stacked up to hold the tyre in place. And the compressor rigged up to the valve on the tyre ready to fire air in as soon as the hair spray exploded. One of the big problems with big stretch is the tyre jumping back off the bead after the explosion, caused by the resulting vacuum.

The plan? Me armed with the hairspray and a lighter, Xav ready with the air gun.

Three

Two

One

BANG!

Popped on very very easily once we had enough dead weight on the wheel to force it through the tyre. Quick blast of air from the compressor up to a healty 36psi and the wheels are sitting pretty. Well, not to some, but the tyres are on, and that's all that matters. Job done.



Want to see them on?



POKE! Nah, that's just for lolz. We grabbed an old steelie, flipped it inside out to swap the ET and fitted a stack of spacers to make what looks like ET-50!







A bit of fiddling with some nuts (snigger) and we have VIP worthy 20 degrees of negative camber y0!





Enough sillyness. Here's the real deal.















Next up? Painting the wheels. I've found a way to remove the fake bolts so I can paint the centres right up to the lip in this colour:





And i'm going to get some gold zinc plated socket cap M6x10mm bolts to drop in there instead. Yes they're still fake splits but they'll look SO much better!

Will start up a how-to as a few people seem to be after split reps these days