wheels

[blake at clockworm.com (Blake Irvin)]

yep - i think it corrodes things pretty good/eats your metal

On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:09 , Chris Bennett wrote:

> You know the gentleman that I mentioned that got my car started when I
> ruined a perfectly good 8v by swapping a 16v in it...  If I remember
> correctly he had 17's on his Scirocco.  I remember he said that the
> fenders were rolled and the car was dropped like you wouldn't believe
> but said that it ran great that way.  I remember looking at it in AWE
> and thinking that I wanted my car to look that way when I had like a
> million or so.  It didn't look ghetto at all.  I think he may have had
> coilovers.
>
> The car was sweet though.  It had one of the aftermarket body kits,
> and he had Mk1 leather seats in it which looked really good.  It
> started out life as an 85 burgundy red just like mine and it has been
> painted some sort of porsche red.  He had swapped a 16v into it and
> done some serious work to it.  I know that he had NOS.  On I-5 in
> Seattle once we were on this cruise to somewhere and I had my 16v
> pretty much wide open and he hit the button and left me like I was
> sitting still.  I think he was in 4th too.
>
> I hear that's rough on the engines though.