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    Ahh, the 6 wheel XJS. I had that edition of Custom Car. Along with many more and a case load of Street Machine, including the offices only copy of edition 1, which my Dad managed to wangle off them for free. Sadly my mother binned all my stuff after a family fued and I'd moved out.
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    Just another bit of food for thought, but also worth considering the effect of wheel change on the scrub radius, as this will change the handling of the car. Most of us tend to buy wheels for how they the look (guilty), but they're not a purely cosmetic change. If you imagine a straight line between the top and bottom wishbone ball joints and then extend the line downwards until it hits the road, that is the kingpin offset and if the centre of the tyre's contact patch is at this point, then you have zero scrub radius. If the contact patch centre sits inwards of this point, you have negative scrub; and outwards gives you positive scrub. If the new wheels have a lower offset than the factory ones, then they will increase your scrub radius (by 22mm in this case). With a higher positive scrub radius, anything that causes drag on one of the front wheels will create greater feedback through the steering wheel. Some positive scrub is good as it gives road feel, but too much and you might find that the car starts to badly tramline (especially if you also go for wider tyres too) and react to even minor imperfections in the road. The steering will also push back with more force during hard cornering, and uneven braking force between front wheels can result in a hefty kick back in the steering. Always worth checking with others what their experiences are with a given wheel change.
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    I won't make the full 16 day excursion but will plan on getting to Cortina for the weekend of Sat 10th/Sun 11th Sept. If there's anyone else here looking to do similar then maybe we could ad a list here of who is able to do the whole trip and those who will meet up in Cortina ? I'd like to do the "big trip" but due to work/holidays/wife(!) I think it won't happen.
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    I think the normal offset for the 5.5j Sports steel wheels is ET38. So the outside edge of those rims will stick out about 28mm further than the stock Sports wheel. If you fit the same size tyres (say 185/70), then the outside wall of the tyre will stick out about 22mm further. As said above, lot's of people have fitted those wheels with no problem, but when you're spending that kind of money I'd always recommend getting a straight piece of wood putting it flat against the front of the current wheels/tyre, and measuring how much further out the new wheels will stick and seeing whether this will cause problems. The (lack of) engineering tolerances on the Cortina's arches and axles seems to give quite a range of differences from car to car in terms of what you can and can't get away with fitting. Also worth remembering that the camber on the front axle increases as the suspension is compressed, so the tops of the tyres do tend to tuck in nicely on cornering and give you quite a few extra mm of arch clearance. A similar thing also happens to the rear axle on cornering (but not over bumps).
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    Agreed. Also, JBW needs to buy the rights to the Interstate wheel off 100+ and reinstate the Interstate.
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