{"id":746,"date":"2008-01-26T23:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T23:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2008-01-26T23:37:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T23:37:32","slug":"746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/746\/","title":{"rendered":"M7 Scoop &#038; Feather Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I had the respirator out and the garage all in &#8220;spray-booth&#8221; mode, I went ahead and painted the M7 Extreme Scoop I bought last Fall. I&#8217;m not sure it actually improves performance of the inter-cooler at all, but it seems like it does according to the butt-dyno.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Photo0143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-749 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Photo0143-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"M7 Scoop\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Photo0143-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Photo0143.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My cunning plan for this autocross season is to run a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tirerack.com\/tires\/tires.jsp?tireMake=Kumho&amp;tireModel=Ecsta+V710\">Kumho V710<\/a> 225\/50\/15s on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altaminiperformance.com\/products\/show\/375\/Konig-Feather-15-\">Konig Feather wheels<\/a>. The wheels finally came last week and now I just need to get the tires shoe-horned on the rims and see if they will fit without wheel spacers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Photo0142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-748 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Photo0142-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Konig Feather\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2256288194_7612f45297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-747 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2256288194_7612f45297-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"mounted tires\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wheels are about 12 lbs. each and &#8220;the Light-Weight-Oriented wheel is produced by excellent design and with great precision, technology and manufacturing method for limited merchandise in solid structure and ultra light weight.&#8221; [tag on each wheel] Who can argue with that? Update: Here they are mounted. Now to find some bolts that fit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I had the respirator out and the garage all in &#8220;spray-booth&#8221; mode, I went ahead and painted the M7 Extreme Scoop I bought last Fall. I&#8217;m not sure it actually improves performance of the inter-cooler at all, but it seems like it does according to the butt-dyno. My cunning plan for this autocross season &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/746\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;M7 Scoop &#038; Feather Wheels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-mini","tag-mini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}