[Peter D]

Thanks Hoppy - the "Codpieces" are 3mm aluminium, so I assume that these could be successfully chromed.

Yep, the DRB seems to have hit that "sweet spot" in terms of wheel arch radius vs tyre radius with the 17" jobs - they just look "right". My only issue was with pushing the wheels outboard to fully fill the guards. As mentioned, I went with the old DRB offsets (about 5 years ago) & found that they were too far inboard.

I had just enough adjustment in the rose joints to allow me to push the whole rear uprights out another 3/4", BUT, the travel on the drive-shaft splines would not allow that option (I even had to get 5mm machined off the male splines to avoid binding on full drop-down with the suspension wound in to its standard position).

With the Vette front suspension, I was screwed - whilst I could shim out the top arm, the bottom arm is totally fixed in position.

That left me with 2 options :

- Get Simmons to modify the wheels - replace inner & outer rims to give me 3/4" extra track per side. This turned out to be impossible as Simmons have changed the bolt pattern on the FR17's since I bought mine.

- Only one option left - wheel spacers !

How are things going since the lifting of the Windsor engine drop-dead date ?

Kind Regards,

Peter D.