bBTOY

Damn , I must be in the Wrong Post . I think this is a Teachers Convention .

SciFly

what is not to learn about? Cold water?

bBTOY

Potato - P oo-tato

SciFly

Here, come have solo test drive of my rs2 xB/ox!
Check out sound system

patooties well done in one minute

SciFly

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wedgiesaurus

hubcaps are definitely the way to go, unless you're rolling in some serious $$, use the car for racing, or hae a legitimate show car.

I think ScionicMan had it right on- you bought a cheap, (by everyone else's standards) ugly, plastic filled box. if you can't deal with putting cheap, (by everyone else's standards) ugly, plastic painted hubcaps on it, then something isn't working right upstairs.

Toss on some baby moons, some salt flats, some non-walmart spinners. get a real nice look for a fraction of the price. Buy an ebay muffler for $35. Make your own intake. Smoke your own tail lights. Debadge it. Buy $10 cold cathodes and LEDs and light it up. You can do a lot to a car for cheap that other people pay a lot to get done to it.

People say tossing spinning hubcaps on the box is ricey. So is spending $2000 on the 19" chrome Giovanni rims on a car that costs $14k. So is a carbon fiber spoiler for a 108hp rolling fly swatter.


all of this of course, is IMHO.

SciFly

OK, now that in particular really appeals to me.

Can anyone direct me to the exact place where I can get baby moons??

(want the kind that are "hub caps", not full wheel covers)

=thanks for a fine posting, sir=


Another thing I would like to do, perhaps in the near future, is go up one inch in size of steel wheel (is a fourteen at present, yes?) and run a 50 series aspect 185 or wider. I don't know squat about that but is this the way to go to get lower aspect ratio without losing speedo accuracy?

tnx

crayonBOX

stock is 15"

and i love the comment about the "108 hp rolling fly swatter..." LOL haha ha thanks for the great laugh

definately link me to a place where i can get some baby moons THX!

SciFly

Yokay... I'm looking around the site here and found a link to JC Whitney

Full covers... at JC Whitney

http://tinyurl.com/74fwm



This is Sid xBicious's car.
The photo copied from his thread about moons and whitewalls
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...er=asc&start=0

STATUS

NO HUB CAPS THAT JUST WONT WORK NO MATTER WUT

bBTOY

Here you GO ; http://www.go-kat-go.com/50sstylhub.html
And if you go up 1 inch insize , you have messed with the speedo readings .

SciFly

I can almost hear Sid's car pictured above replying with The Word:
"WUT!"

MidLifeScionCrisis

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bB2NER

ACTUALLY, Wheelcovers are the LAZY way out. Having nice wheels are more work,But deffinetly worth the effort cause of the way it makes you car stand out amongst the rest.

wedgiesaurus

that's the thing- when everybody is doing the same thing to stand out, you stop standing out. if someone's only rationale behind rims is looks, there are hubcaps that can do that for ya. i did see one guy @ the fox scion event in RI that had some nice dub spinrims on his box, and it stood out. your run of the line tuner rim doesn't anymore.

but baby moons still do

SciFly

funny, well put!

tuners, a few, getting wedgies because their underpants are pulled up way too high!
who would not xB-pect that result?




The beauty of the thing is, that every individual must understand: it's your car and you are the archetect and captain.

And when everyone has baby moons then we'll go looking at rims again.
Or square wheel covers.

SpongeBob wheel covers would look freaking SQUARE on an RS2
or a DICE image, giant, on a flat plain cover. OR a SPINNER dice even more -freaky-

TJandBOXCARWILLIE

Moons are always HIP.

If I had not done my rims, I would have done moons. And heck, my rims are still stock sized, whilst everyone else is going larger.

I say, let 'em crash.

(woops, wrong place for that movie quote)

bB2NER

The moon discs are fine if used as a stop gap until you can get some 17 or 18 inch wheels to roll in style and be able to carve the corners the way the BOX was intended to. The steelies don't allow you drive it to it's full potential.

SciFly

If steelies came in 18" size I'd do that...
if I wanted the rubber-band tire look... (is sweet on a lowered car, sometimes, matter of personal preference)
if I was wanting to give up bump-forgive for super flat cornering.


The whole idea of pneumatic tires invention was to make a primary shock absorber. That' is no longer so important for street cars on smooth surfaces.

Problem is, life ain't all smooth.

The other night I took the new RS2 over some speed bumps. HUH! Compared to my Chrysler LHS, this little Scion just skipped over the same humps that -demand- the LHS go no faster across than walking speed.

Now, i like that! If I go to super thin tires and try the stunt again-- will the Scion still pass? Or will I get thrown up at the roof?

just wondering.. but true, man, true: what we gain in one department we give up in some other area.

Sid's moon-covered wide white looks -just right- for my taste. I will get the JC Whitney moon covers right now, by phone order. I -am guessing- these are the same ones sold by "Mooneyes". cuz the prices are the same and the photos look the same

-about 90 bucks per set
-highly polished stainless steel does not have that glitzy chrome look. Am not so fond of chrome as I am of nickel- which is -what stainless steel is mostly made of-

So, I'll get these and pop them on and maybe get a set of the Lucas 1.5 fake whitewall covers (see Sid's thread marked above)

AND if you have these -whitewall rubbers- bear in mind it is probably possible to -DYE- them any color you want. Experiment is needed and the results may not last well in the sunlight: Rit fabric dye -might- put a tint into the white. Might---- am only wondering.

Sky blue sidewalls Or yellow. Or whatever.. maybe!

bB2NER

Those stainless moon disks are only polished around the outer lip. The rest is a brushed finish. They are easy to keep clean and never need to be polished. The only down side is you need to remove them to check your air pressures and they scratch the hell out of the steel wheels and may cause them to rust over time.