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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hey, new young guy

« on: 19 February 2014, 18:11:30 »

Damn! So after 10 months of drive you can insure a 3 litre Omega for 900 quid?! That's crazy!

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Omega General Help / Re: Widest wheel, lowest offset

« on: 19 February 2014, 18:01:37 »

Entwood, I understand why you're saying what you're saying, but I don't see how it's helpful on this thread. I would've rather had you say yes or no in the first place, rather than wasting alot of time going on about how the chassis is sensitive to the suspension set-up, how the are camber issues on the rear and everything else that was said for no real reason

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Omega General Help / Re: Widest wheel, lowest offset

« on: 19 February 2014, 17:15:33 »

Just forget I asked!
None of you seem to want to actually help. I was simple asking if the wheels I want to fit, would fit. But all of you only want to tell me how they're a sensitive chassis, have camber issues, and how it'll be horrible to drive.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hey, new young guy

« on: 19 February 2014, 17:04:43 »

We are going back a few years don't forget. And if you're thinking of modifying it, that will send your premium sky high.

Get something slow, old, and decent, yet relatively unknown to the chavs, ie an old (very old) Corolla, 323, or similar, and keep your initial outlay down, then save hard for the Omega you want...

I'd love to have something old and uncommon for young people, but insurance prices are still stupidly high no matter what the car is 

In a perfect world I'd like a facelift 3.2 in a prefacelift shell, but I'm going to have to do that swap myself which kind of sucks haha

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Omega General Help / Re: Widest wheel, lowest offset

« on: 19 February 2014, 16:51:35 »

So because I want to do something outside of the norm, you think the car will instantly kill everyone and everything within a 10 mile radius?... Nice.

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Omega General Help / Re: Widest wheel, lowest offset

« on: 19 February 2014, 16:47:16 »

If that's what I want to do, then that's my choice. Let me find out the hard way. I was simply after a "Yeah, they'll fit" or a "No, the offset is too low"

I get that it's a big wheel with a fairly small tyre on it, but thats the look I want and if it handles like crap, then I'll have to either sort it some how, or just live with it handling weird.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hey, new young guy

« on: 19 February 2014, 16:42:21 »

How much were you paying for a 2.6 Omega when you were 19?!

£1100 or so. Because so few younguns have them, they don't crash them as often, so statistically they're less risk than a Corsa or Fiesta. Even with two or three times the power output...

Damn! I just wish they were cheaper to insure straight away, rather than needing 1 years NCB to bring the price down to a reasonable price 

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hey, new young guy

« on: 19 February 2014, 16:23:31 »

How much were you paying for a 2.6 Omega when you were 19?!

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Omega General Help / Re: Widest wheel, lowest offset

« on: 19 February 2014, 16:16:24 »

I really don't know why I bothered asking. All I want to know is if it will fit or not, but you lot seem to care more about camber, tyre width and if something goes wrong with the wheel/tyre set I want to use.

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Omega General Help / Re: Widest wheel, lowest offset

« on: 19 February 2014, 15:59:35 »

Those tyres are stupidly narrow for the rim widths you're thinking of

I know, but that's how I want them to be haha

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Omega General Help / Re: Widest wheel, lowest offset

« on: 19 February 2014, 14:46:34 »

To avoid catching the wheelarch under compression and rubbing the inside of the tyre on the strut, you're generally looking at all 235 tyres or 245 tyres that do not have rim protection on the inner edge, and 8J, around ET30 - ET32.

Rear has more scope due to more space inboard

So will a 9.5j et12 wheel fit with a 20-30mm spacer/PCD adapter? I'm going to roll/flare the arches too.

On the front I plan on using 205/40R18's, and on the rear I plan on using 225/35R18's

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Omega General Help / Widest wheel, lowest offset

« on: 19 February 2014, 13:12:29 »

Bit of a random one, but, whats the widest wheel and lowest offset you can run on the front and rear?
Because when I get an Omega I want to put 18x9.5 et12 wheels on it, but I'm going to need adapters to change the PCD from 5x110 to 5x114.3, I also want to put 16x10 et-10 wheels on the rear.

So what I'm asking is, are both of them width-offsets combo's possible?

Thanks, James

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hey, new young guy

« on: 19 February 2014, 13:06:45 »

Hey, welcome to the 19 club  I gots a 2.2dti 

How!? Insurance must be insane, unless you've got your parents on you policly and have been driving for a year or 2!?

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Omega General Help / Re: I'm after a few measurements, please

« on: 18 February 2014, 21:06:51 »

Hi guys, I'm after a couple of measurements from the front hubs/knuckles if it's not too much trouble.

The first measurement is the width of the hub/knuckle where the front damper bolts on. 22mm

The second measurement is the distance between the centres of the bolt holes on the hub/knuckle or the damper where they bolt together. 57mm

Thank's, James

Both with a hefty dose of ish

Awesome, thank's mate!! 

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Omega General Help / Re: I'm after a few measurements, please

« on: 18 February 2014, 01:53:38 »

I can try,  but it will be from used parts, so no guarantees wrt accuracy 

It's mainly the width of the knuckle where the damper bolts on that I'm interested in