{"id":883,"date":"2009-08-08T23:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T23:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2009-08-08T23:21:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T23:21:05","slug":"new-wheels-for-the-stealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/autocross\/new-wheels-for-the-stealth\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wheels for the Stealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3435\/3802628172_ff57ab2152.jpg\" alt=\"New Wheels\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made the big wheel and tire swap last week. Since the BMW is almost done, I&#8217;m returning the MINI to normal&#8211;well closer to normal. I swapped out the R-comps on the MINI race wheels for a street tire. I took out the rear strutbar and removed the splitter. I also sold the MINI 15 inch wheels and moved the RA1s on to a new set of 15&#215;7 lightweight wheels for the BMW. I also picked up another set of 16 inch wheels to put on the BMW with my old Goodyear F1 Tires. The 15 inch wheels have already sold and a couple of people are interested in the Hankooks. I should be close to break-even when all the dust settles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2585\/3802626008_387d1c886b.jpg\" alt=\"BMW at MSP\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day for an August autocross&#8211;not too hot and not too humid. The NCC course at the Maryland State Police Training Center was fairly simple. There was a slolom, Chicago box, a couple of sweepers, and a skidpad circle at the end. I haven&#8217;t swapped out the driveline yet so I still can&#8217;t hammer the throttle, but I managed to win my class (I&#8217;m not saying how big the field was&#8230;.) I&#8217;ve been working on smoothness and steering as the rack in the BMW isn&#8217;t as fast as the MINI. I really enjoy driving it even if the power is at the wrong end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3554\/3809704835_6f3f9bfd89.jpg\" alt=\"BMW running\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the big wheel and tire swap last week. Since the BMW is almost done, I&#8217;m returning the MINI to normal&#8211;well closer to normal. I swapped out the R-comps on the MINI race wheels for a street tire. I took out the rear strutbar and removed the splitter. I also sold the MINI 15 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/autocross\/new-wheels-for-the-stealth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Wheels for the Stealth&#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":[3,4,7],"tags":[47,275,290],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocross","category-bmw","category-diy","tag-bmw","tag-trackcar","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\/883","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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}