Just got a new install today... waiting to take pics when I have a camera around... ;) I'll leave you in suspense until then.
any updates??
yep, should have some pics tomorrow.
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yeah....so....anyways.....hello?
the pics are coming... just don't have my own digicam. so tomorrow my friend is coming and they will be up. Promise.
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okay, well here it is..
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okay, for some reason it wont let me put pics on... so here's the link.
http://psubooks.creamyfetus.com/tgp/index.html
Work great. and really pretty cheap all things considered.. less than $350 shipped and installed.
So its tires???
Brand?
Size?
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TIRE Shine man and clean them up for heaven's sake...... :wink:
lol, i live on a dirt road basically... well, mostly the city is just dirty but you know...
anyhow, they are federal ss-595's... 245/50/16
got them from onlinetires.com
The nice thing is, for the past few weeks I've had replacements on that were from my old GP... stock steelies spraypainted gold with good year eagle #1 NASCAR tires on them in the front, a stocker in the bck passenger side and a smaller grey wheel in the driver rear... its nice to have matching wheels again.
sweet
and i hear ya on the dirt roads :x im on one too....
like the tread on those, kinda like my toyo's
Narly looking tread pattern :twisted: plenty of meat for road contact, and just enough big grooves for water evacuation 8), and maybe help with slippery mud too.
Hey, others might like this too :idea: but check this place out, these wheel inserts work excellent and NO THEY DO NOT effect brake performance :lol: (sorry, typically get that as the only reply when I have posted this before :roll: ).
http://www.kleenwheels.com/about_kleenwheels.htm
They install easy but first a few user tips, (and the last time with this much work cleaning them i.e. that is the point of having these inserts) take the rim/tire off the car, get in there with a tooth brush and scrub out the years of brake dust crap in those crosslaces, use some bug-and-tar remover and let it soak to get out the real baked on shit (don?t do this in the sun or when its hot out) , rinse off the bug-and-tar stuff and any solvent and give them a good bath inside and out. Then I would suggest to take the time to wax them as you WILL find you won't have to clean the rims this much at all afterwards, and the wax will help keep dirt and stuff from sticking. Now, if you have tape weights on your rims, just use a metal snip or scissors to make a very small cut at the end locations where this wheel insert contacts the tape weights when it is put into place, so that the metal you snipped just lifts up a little, don't get nasty and whack it to death as it might show from the front. Then put in the insert and if it fits snug then be careful not to bend it up getting it in there, they typically fit just a little snug, I am very careful and try to bend a little to get a little snug to it so the insert stays in place when the tire/rim is taken off/put on the car.
Here are my rims with the inserts, actually gives the rims a nice backdrop/background to help set off the gold and shiny aluminum parts. Unfortunately they might look like shit on some 5 spoke wheels with big openings :roll: , but with the stock crosslaces and the stock TSTE rims, hardly seen at all, and I have never had any hard work cleaning the crosslace on my TGP or Indents on my TSTE. Also snip off the last parts of that link above to see their Main Home Page and other stuff, they have color versions now of these inserts.
http://www.turbograndprix.com/1990TSTE001.jpg
Jeff M
No heat build up from hard driving with the wheel inserts? I would be a bit nervous of those with the mountain driving I do on "free" weekends! :wink: Not like I see free weekends anymore...but you know. :lol: 8)
Seen those things but never tried them....... :?
My rims don't have time to get dirty :lol:
Quote from: Invasion1My rims don't have time to get dirty :lol:
I was going to say mine spin too fast to get dirty! :lol: :wink: 8)
Well I had gotten up to 2 pages on air flow info I have heard of and read in mags and engineering books and such that would really explain all that is going on with air flow around the front of a vehicle but also at the sides and more importantly underneath :!: But it was too much for this old brain to keep composing, and maybe too much info for here so will just say; it has scoops that makes the nice cold outside air around the outside of the car go into the brake area, instead of the hot engine bay area that is blasting around in the pressure zone under the car blowing onto the brakes, I mean racers add air inlets from outside the car as in the frontal area of the vehicle for cold air, or the side of the vehicle, like the air these scoops are looking to grab :) but more so to overcome the pressure zone under the car and there by the brakes. And since the air flow with these scoops is going into the rim, and onto the brakes, there is no chance of air coming out, i.e. THAT CONTAINING brake dust :x . It works really well, had them on my first TGP in 1990 till 1994 when I sold it, hardly every had to do the crosslace with a small brush :roll: in and out and in and out :lol: , which was a pain but I liked all the time I spent with that car 8) With the inserts keeping out what we see as brake dust is nothing as compared to the super sticky molten brake matter that comes off while braking hard, that shit sticks like a bitch to the clear coating, and threatens the finish of that clear coating as you attempt to remove it/clean this hot brake matter off, another effect I was happy to get :)
Part number 1316 for the TSTE and 1320 :lol: for the TGP.
YES, that is correct, they have different inserts for the rims of each car, not some universal attempt :wink:
So, it works great, had them on other cars too, only issue is if you are rough with them, the powder coat will come off, so treat them well and they do well in return :) . And I think they are only $30 a pair, last I checked, and Tire Rack and Discount Tire and many others carry them!
Jeff M
I got a set for sale. PM me if anyone is interested.
Quote from: Jeff MWell I had gotten up to 2 pages on air flow info I have heard of and read in mags and engineering books and such that would really explain all that is going on with air flow around the front of a vehicle but also at the sides and more importantly underneath :!: But it was too much for this old brain to keep composing, and maybe too much info for here so will just say; it has scoops that makes the nice cold outside air around the outside of the car go into the brake area, instead of the hot engine bay area that is blasting around in the pressure zone under the car blowing onto the brakes, I mean racers add air inlets from outside the car as in the frontal area of the vehicle for cold air, or the side of the vehicle, like the air these scoops are looking to grab :) but more so to overcome the pressure zone under the car and there by the brakes. And since the air flow with these scoops is going into the rim, and onto the brakes, there is no chance of air coming out, i.e. THAT CONTAINING brake dust :x . It works really well, had them on my first TGP in 1990 till 1994 when I sold it, hardly every had to do the crosslace with a small brush :roll: in and out and in and out :lol: , which was a pain but I liked all the time I spent with that car 8) With the inserts keeping out what we see as brake dust is nothing as compared to the super sticky molten brake matter that comes off while braking hard, that shit sticks like a bitch to the clear coating, and threatens the finish of that clear coating as you attempt to remove it/clean this hot brake matter off, another effect I was happy to get :)
Part number 1316 for the TSTE and 1320 :lol: for the TGP.
YES, that is correct, they have different inserts for the rims of each car, not some universal attempt :wink:
So, it works great, had them on other cars too, only issue is if you are rough with them, the powder coat will come off, so treat them well and they do well in return :) . And I think they are only $30 a pair, last I checked, and Tire Rack and Discount Tire and many others carry them!
Jeff M
Hey Jeff, another alternative is to install ceramic disc brake pads. Installed a set on my honey's 2001 Pathfinder, that she/I wash every 3 days because she hates dirty wheels. NO more brake dust on the wheels and excellent stopping properties. Got them from O'Reily's Auto Parts, a little higher than the Raybestos semi metallic plus but less wear/abuse on the disc. I will go ceramic with all 5 of my vehicles from here on. Just MHO...T
I got some ceramics and posted about it here a few years ago. and was surprised to see others already had them :roll: .
Seems like the people on this board are generally pretty forward thinking in nature.
Ceramics do leave some dust on the wheels though and never will do what the Kleenwheels product does.