My New Stagea!

[barge]

Howdy All

Just picked up my new fire engine red s2. I am seriously impressed with the power and driveability.

Was hoping you guys could help me out with a couple of things.

1. It looks like the previous owner must have disabled/removed the HID headlights as there are DIY wire joiners behined the bulbs. Is there any way to refit new HID bulbes, ballasts?

2. How do 18x 9.5 inch rims fit under rear gaurds? Was looking at

Manaray 18"

18x8.5 +46 5x114.3

18x9.5 +48 5x114.3

What do you think?

Car is dead stock ATM but am looking at doing a few low key mods in the near future.

Any help is appreciated.

Matt

Oh. I (and stagea) is located in Newcastle NSW

[Ska]

Very Nice!

I had 18x8.5 with 255's on them at one stage and they sat fine under my lowered beast

Also join the frappr, in my sig

[Tangles]

Very very nice, well done.

Ive got a Series 1 so cant offer too much advice about the lights, however with the mags, you MUST run same width front and rear - or risk stuffing the 4wd system.

18 x 8.5inch width should be ok front and rear.

Best of luck with it all !

[barge]

Hey that was quick!

Cheers for the info. Ill have to try and find a matched set of rims.

One more question, does anyone know where I can get a hold of nissan central locking key fob? Car only came with one. Is there an aftermarket key that will do the job?

Also do S2's come factory with a 3 point imobiliser?

CHeers

Matt

[Ska]

I dont know, but any half decent alarm system should do the central locking as well.

[Tangles]

I dont know, but any half decent alarm system should do the central locking as well.

Kid flushed ours down the toilet (still bloody blocked too).

So yeah, we lost 1 x car key and 1 x alarm keypad

bought a new keypad off ebay but need it calibrated some how, could do with a new key, too

Plus Im a cheapskate and didnt pay that $20 the fella wanted to wire up the alarm to the central locking !

[Ska]

Meh mongoose alarms you just buy a blank transponder and set your alarm to learn it and bam new key

[munchstagea]

Hi Matt,

Nice work on the Stag!

You are going to need that 3 point alarm for insurance right? Well anything factory fitted won't cut it as far as I know, you will need a Black wired, 3 point immob, Aust standards approved alarm so don't worry about the standard key fob as you will have a new remote with the alarm and you can get more keys cut from a Patrol blank I hear...

Welcome and enjoy!

Cheers

Luke

[Ska]

Yeah I have cut 3 keys from patrol blanks, all work fine

Oh and when I had my mongoose installed it rendered the stock central locking key useless.

[munchstagea]

Plus Im a cheapskate and didnt pay that $20 the fella wanted to wire up the alarm to the central locking !

Haha! You crack me up Brendan!!!

What type of alarm is it? I have a mongoose and the instructions you may need to program it in...

Luke

[Tangles]

Haha! You crack me up Brendan!!!

What type of alarm is it? I have a mongoose and the instructions you may need to program it in...

Luke

LOL

glad to be of service

ebay, $160 delivered, black wired full Australian insurance approved, called a Black Widow.

Ive got a new (cheap; ebay) keypad but I heard I had to go to Strathfield to get it coded correctly.

All in good time; probably go there and get them to throw in a DVD player (head unit only) to make it worth their while.

[Ska]

So you wont pay $20 to hook up the central locking, but several hundred for a dvd player just so you can get the keypad hooked up.....

[-FUZZY-]

get wheels the same width and same offset, or else you'll screw up your driveline.

Sucks coz reduces the amount of wheel choice we have.

[munchstagea]

I have had a Black Widow before, they are pretty good from my ownership, never missed a beat, oh the batteries went flat in one of the remotes after about 3 years but that's pretty good I think!

[Tangles]

So you wont pay $20 to hook up the central locking, but several hundred for a dvd player just so you can get the keypad hooked up.....

thats right, as I'll sell the Clarion 180w tape head unit and 6stack Clarion CD player fo a cple hundred !

so a dvd player will cost me nothing, in essence.

anyone interested? I can assure you all that the CD player has never skipped and both units are in awesome condition. But for me 700mb isnt long enough - give me 3.7gig of pure trance, thanks !

[darrinspencer]

1. It looks like the previous owner must have disabled/removed the HID headlights as there are DIY wire joiners behined the bulbs. Is there any way to refit new HID bulbes, ballasts?

2. How do 18x 9.5 inch rims fit under rear gaurds? Was looking at

Manaray 18"

18x8.5 +46 5x114.3

18x9.5 +48 5x114.3

Wheels

The other posts are correct for same width front and rear, but only if your car is a 4WD

If it is RWD, you can have different widths

The offsets you have quoted are wrong

Those wheels will sit too far in and most likely foul the suspension

You need something more like +35 on a 8.5 rim and 9.5 rim may just not fit

The biggest rim width most Stagea have on them are 9.0 +30 (33/34 GTR offset) and they run every close to sitting outside the guards

Headlights

These would have been zenon's from factory, but under compliance they have to be converted back to standard type bulbs. Unfortunitly you cannot convert the lights back to factory zenon bulbs, plus they are illegal.

[GoldZilla]

Congratulations, dude.

The NSW contingent is growing!

[Silverback]

Very nice, that Red colour is pretty rare in OZ. Hope you enjoy your new ride, and you will have hours of fun finding out all sorts of things on the forum.....Welcome

[EGA41T]

im running 18 x 9.0 with +35 offset and small spacers on the rear

[Sydneykid]

The ATTESSA doesn't care about width of wheels/tyres, the only thing that it cares about is the diameter. They have to be the same front and rear.

Mine has 17 X 9 X 30mm offset, standard R33GTR wheels with 245/40/17 tyres and they are JUST inside the rear guards at 1.25 degrees negative camber.

As you can see they are just legal (particularly the rear);

cheers

PS; they don't rub, even with the race car on trailer towed behind

Edited July 27, 2006 by Sydneykid