I currently have a set of 17" konig reasons on my r/t, and as winter is approaching here in lovely michigan (snow today) I was wondering how necessary it was for me to take my rims off and get some steals? They are "black and pollished gun metal" so I'm not really sure if the salt and wintery roads are going to damage them. If anyone has any experiance with this sort of thing please let me know. I'll try to post a pic. but i'm not sure how well it will turn out.



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nice pictures by the way..

what happened to your stock wheels?

 

Yeah, about those, I was really smart when I bought my rims and sold my stocks back to discount tire for $500 off my purchase. While I'm at it, anyone know of a descent remote starter that isn't too much of a pain to wire in?

 

im sorry, but i dont know anything about remote starters, but i do know for a fact that thump knows quite a bit about them.

about your stock rims, you do know that they cost like 600 bucks a piece?

 

Call up a junkyard and tell them the make and model and see if they have any steel wheels for it

 

hell, the steelies from the mirada fit the RT..and theyre RWD wheels..

 

If I were you (which im not, but) I would go down to a local junkyard and get some basic steele's for the winter. Save your rims & tire's for better weather, no sense in wasting perfectly good summer tread on slippery winter roads

 

also in winterizing, everyone with a cold air intake (located in front of front driverside wheel) do i need to convert to a short ram intake for winter, or just make sure i'm not a jack *** about driving through puddles? Badstrat, if you don't mind me asking, where did you get your gas cap cover from? I would assume off of an eclipse, but does it just screw in if you don't mind me asking?

 

no, it does not screw on...you have to enlarge the body hole. i have heard people say "mine slid right in", but once you look at the shape of the cap assembly, and the shape of the stratus gas opening, it only makes sens that it wont fit. with the eclipse, the cap has a long sleeve attatched to it, which goes all the way down to the filler neck, which must be higher than the RT. also, the eclipse body opening for the assembly is round, whereas the RT has the tabs on the left for the metal door to rest against, plus the hinge assembly, and those two items make the hole, not round. first, i had to cut the inside of the cap assembly out so that it would make the proper angle to the filler neck, and then i had to dremmel out the inside of the quarter panel to allow room for the assembly. also, some people say that they used 3m adheisive tape, but it was too thin for me, and it didnt seem to make a good seal,a nd i didnt want it blowing off at speed, so i used bedside molding glue (new ford trucks arent held together by welds, theyre glued instead).

mind you, i did NOT do this myself. my dads shop is attatched to a body shop, and the day that i was doing this, they were slow, and the owner offered to help. so i had someone with 20 years of customization experience assisting me with the cutting and gluing. i am, however, very happy with the results. I actually bought the gas door from a member of DF, when we were both members of another forum...[8D]

i do not drive my car in the winter and my car is already covered up for the year, but i personally would covert to a SRI for winter if i was going to drive in the snow.....snow hides puddles. if you have a good kit with a seperate piece MAFS adapter, you should be ablt to remove the lower pipe, and put the filter right onto the MAFS adapter.

 

Well, like it or not I will be buying at least one new rim tomorrow morning thanks to the wonders of Michigan construction. Around 2 am this morning I did some math, 1 rim + 1 tire +45 mph + 1 pot hole = a trip to the tire shop. For anyone else out there with custom rims, make sure your breaker bar fits your lug key, as I learned the hard way mine didn't. Had to get that out.