Didn't even see your reply before I made mine, Nick.
As for my 2000 posts, that's irrelevant. Most of it is gibberish anyway What is significant is this idiots ONE post and join date of yesterday.
Regarding your suggestion regarding the turn signals, while interesting in theory, I'll still keep my clears

 

I don't think you have to do anything with the calipers...BUT...if you are compelled to do something I would either go black caliper with orange lettering or silver caliper with black lettering.

Photoshop that and give us a look.

 

Looks nice ... and you have the power to make it work ....

Any noticable gains from the HRE's??

 

^^ agree. I dunno ed i think it all gets down to how long you wind up keeping orange wheels on your car. You just never know when the urge comes again to change rim colors. The red or yellow both work perfectly fine with the orange rims imo. Neither color has shown to have been a fashion disaster problem on the RS that has these orange rims so i wouldn't sweat it on the caliper colors. Agree with ruf that black and silver may work fine too but then what happens if one day you get out of bed and say its back to black or silver rims. Yellow and red calipers are after all the signature color for the car...if that helps.

 

no to orange calipers. I wish you could do an orange stripe or outline of the window upper edge, kind of like the targa silver stripe that goes over the windows.

 

Gents, I think I'm in agreement. Letting too many opinions sway my original perception that red on orange looks fine. Yellow would be better, but not worth the hassle of painting them. Thanks for putting me back on track


Thanks!
I haven't done any 'testing' with the car as of yet Now that they're off the car, probably won't get any data with the HRE's vs the RS wheels. I imagine there won't be any world of difference either way, at least in a straight line.

Think I'm leaving everything as is. I suppose if I were to do any 'accent', it would be orange wing end plates. But only if I could wrap it. Painting anything on the car is a no no given that I have no idea how long I'll be keeping the RS wheels. But thanks for the suggestion

 

Hey Ed, I know you probably won’t go this direction...but satin black rims with orange powder coated calipers and black decals. Its just a nice visual from the boys at Champion Motorsports.

 

Love it, Daren. But I want to keep the orange wheels as is for now. Although, that pic gives a pretty good indication that black calipers would go nicely with orange

 

Ed, you've no idea how much you sounded like Dr. Perry in Scrubs with that reply. He's my all time hero for quick witted put downs! Lovin' it!

 

Glad you enjoyed it, Karim.
I was having an unusually bad morning, so one of the last things I could tolerate was worthless drivel from an idiot.

And thanks for the comparison. I love Dr. Perry!

 

Offsets on these RS wheels were surprisingly horrible on my car. VID997 has the same setup and his seemed much more aggressive even without spacers. Not sure if it is the addition of the Techart skirts that make the wheels seem more recessed, but it did not look good.

Front


Rears



Added H&R spacers, 7mm front




15mm rear






Much better
Fronts could probably stand to go to 10mm, but I haven't heard anyone doing that, so I won't trailblaze. The 15's are VERY aggressive. At certain angles, it appears that the sidewalls are protruding past the fender. But looking at it directly from behind, I think it's fine. Haven't driven with it yet, but hopefully the rears won't rub

 

I have a similar setup. My rears are 17mm I think (or thereabouts - they came with the car) and I have none at the front. It does look good, yes aggressive, yes tire bubbles out of the fender. Beware of debris from the tire scuffing the lower part of the bumper behind them... its one of the drawbacks. Thankfully, we get good whether. I would be having second thoughts about driving her in winter conditions with these spacers.

 

The rears are out def there Ed but it looks a lot better than before! Hope it doesn't rub over bumps . It may pay to have some clear film spats on the gaurds behind your wheels. I had that done to mine as my rears are basically on the limmit.....maybe not quite as much as yours tho....but close. It helps protect from the stones when you stand on the gas .

Btw, offsets for GT3RS.1 rears are: ET51 plus the GT3 also uses a 5mm spacer as well to bring the rim out. The rims are 12 inch wide though (25.4mm) so not sure howthat is actually shared over each side of the rim.
The 997TT uses an 11" rim ET46 but no 5mm spacer and an offset of 46. so there is 10mm there in offset difference (5 + 5) not taking into consideration how the extra 25.4 rim width was shared over the rim.
The fronts use a 53 offset vs the stock 997tt Front 51 so if youve added 7 then youve really got 9 extra over stock. Anymore maybe pushing it.

 

Wow, what a difference...Looks fantastic!