You're My Boy, Blue

[ScottyB]

i hate that facebook keeps being useful in my life but sure enough it earned its place a little while longer when i was browsing some classifieds on Thursday.  been on the hunt for some 16" wheels (the smallest i can go with these brakes) for a couple months now and couldn't find anything that wasn't either grossly overpriced or cheap and trashed.  i want to take a more serious crack at rallyx and need more aggressive rubber (with some actual sidewall height) to do it.  as an added bonus, if i use the 16's as a streetable second set of wheels it will let me replace the current garbage on the stock 17's with stickier, dedicated summer rubber.  believe it or not it gets cold enough down here in GA that i can't currently run an ultra super duper summer tire all year.

the civic is fortunate to share its lug pattern with a lot of other popular Japanese cars, so i had cast a pretty wide net as was looking for a set of decently straight wheels under $250.  a guy in Greenville SC posted up these MSW Type 14's with 4 nearly new all seasons for $200 and after some initial hesitation that they were legit and not a ruse to take my kidney and leave me for dead, i told him i'd see him Saturday.  they came off his wife's Mitsu Lancer ES and to my surprise were a total score...i guess he just needed some garage space back.   

they need some proper hub spacing rings, a good scubbing, a proper balancing, and the Sears DieHard tires (didn't know that was a thing until now) are a little tall at 205/60-16 but have almost full tread and will be adequate for this season and into winter next year.  the tall sidewall may actually be a blessing, it gets me just about back to stock ride height and i don't think it'll rub anywhere.








while i was busy driving up and back through the most depressing corridor of south carolina, everyone else was enjoying a pretty outstanding turnout at the local rallyx held that same day.  Atlanta and Middle GA regions have merged their rally programs so this looks to be a really awesome season. TONS of FWD competition in the stock class, which makes me have bad thoughts if i should put my stock springs back on and have fun with them vs. only competing against 1 or 2 guys in Prepared class where i would be right now.  the struggle is real.



next event's a month out, hope to be reporting back with tales of Sears cheater tire domination and many VTEC braps.