{"id":759,"date":"2008-02-16T23:48:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T23:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2008-02-16T23:48:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T23:48:40","slug":"give-in-to-the-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/autocross\/give-in-to-the-dark-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Give in to the Dark Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/2269058433\/sizes\/l\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2132\/2269058433_8865be28d0.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Konig Feather Wheels\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mounted the new autocross wheels stepped back, and it struck me how much darker my car has become. Not that it&#8217;s a bad thing, just sort of a slow change over time. Tinted windows, blacked out grille, and now black racing wheels. Add mirror caps and a roof sticker and the change will be complete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/2269848088\/sizes\/l\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2126\/2269848088_d2daf6fcbe.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Side view\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to see if the wheels would rub, so I carefully drove down the street, avoiding any water or ice since they are basically slicks. I was looking for a good place to check for rubbing. I found an empty church parking lot and did a couple of quick tight turns. (Am I going to hell for doing donuts in the church parking lot?)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mounted the new autocross wheels stepped back, and it struck me how much darker my car has become. Not that it&#8217;s a bad thing, just sort of a slow change over time. Tinted windows, blacked out grille, and now black racing wheels. Add mirror caps and a roof sticker and the change will be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/autocross\/give-in-to-the-dark-side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Give in to the Dark Side&#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":[3,14],"tags":[94,178,290],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocross","category-mini","tag-diy","tag-mini","tag-wheels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}