Woke up this morning to Mr tnt express with 4 boxes now what do we have inside nice and dishy and before anyone asks they are starcorp racing tracer chrome 18 x 8 front 18 x 9 deep dish back from tempe tyres,paid thursday afternoon and arrived 10 am monday morning,great service and highly recommended now to get some nice fat tread tomorrow for them :zlove:
Oooooh, very dishy... Nice - can't wait to see them on! Will be great to see before and after pics for comparison... By the way, have you solved your shock/ride height problem yet?
Oh thank god for that !!! Those old rims in your signature look bloody awful. They look like $20 kMART wheel trims Thanks for rescuing your zed !!
congrats buddy, they look better in real life (picture wise) than they do on the site. Mate cant wait for pics....so get crackin 7am start run get the tyres....8am post pics. I'll be here waiting lucky bastard u are....congrats once again!!! Pete
nice rims mate!! how much do they weigh? was considering going for tempe tyres a while ago but heard their rims are quite heavy. any idea what rubber your putting on them yet?
Any chrome type rim is going to be heavy thats a given due to the material they are made from and the chroming process. My 20inch chrome rims with tyres require some effort to fit to the car wheras the racing hart light weight rims can nearly do one handed if it wasnt for lining up the stud holes. Looks good Simon much better in real life pics.
thanks jason,as usual,you wrapped it up nicely,for wheels at the price you have to sacrifice the some of the weight issue,it is a road car anyway and jay the tyres im putting on are 235/40/18 front and 265 or 275/35/18 back,i believe i will be stretching it to put on a 275 on a 9 inch rim i think, im curious to hear the pros and cons of the max tyre size i can put on a 9 inch rim
the tyres they wanted to give me in the package were not the ones i wanted,i can get a better deal on the tyres i want down here and thanks everyone ,nice comments are very much appreciated
MMMM, diiiish Will look very phat man. Get some big rubber under that ass end and drop it like its HOT!
I got my rims in person from Tempe. Im about 30mins out from them! For a range of rims there unreal, and no one can beat there prices!! Like typical ethnics, you show them up front cash and theres many of savings to be made!!! (LOL I say that coz Im ethnic and speak well from experience!) I got about 10 days ago, 4 new tyres, 235/35/19 front and 265/35/19 for the rear and it came to $1000 with alignment. 4 Kumho's. I was very happy with that and I got good experiences from my last use in the same Kumho's!!! Jason
OMG Simon....... to be brutally honest..... they look like something right out of a California "Bling Shop". Not at all Z a-typical type wheels. Truth be told, I much prefer your current wheels over the new ones. To me, they seem to suit it that much better - read *it looks like they belong*. Oh well, to each his own. Was it all about the dish?? My first choice is still the RacingHart wheels..... Mmmmmm:zlove:
thanks Mr G ,im going to get the suspension place take a look ,and see if maybe i have a bent part there somewhere ,i certainly cant feel anything wrong,maybe that side spring hasnt settled yet,as i did it a few days later than the other side
mmmm dish. There's so much dish simon, makes it hard for me to tell which wheels were the front and which were the backs. lol. I remember when I was looking at rims I hit tempetyres and I liked the tracer series too but I wanted the shadow chrome finish because I don't think the chrome suited the silver like it suits the black. But then I found my rims (Gmax energy's) and they were a reallly light wheel and I decided to go 17's because I wanted to put better tyres on for less money. lol. You're probably getting your tyres from rik and micky at bob jane box hill? If not give them a call because they hooked me up when I got my rims and tyres. And from memory they said I could fit upto 275's on the rear but they are pretty expensive and with a rear wheel drive car and a heavy right foot I'd probably chew threw them pretty frequently. So I went for Nankang NS2's on the back 255 wide. I think they're pretty good for the money I spent (150 each 255/40/17). What tyres are you planning on getting?
This is what they look like on the car....Simon got his inspiration from me Of course he already knows what I think of the wheels! Cheers, Andrew p.s. theses are polished silver, whereas his are chromed...
255 for rear... For a 9" wide rim you'll be looking at 255's. 265's would be exceeding it but you would just get away with it. 275's, out of the question...you'll need 9.5" rims minimum for them. Nice upgrade mate. Chrome will surely stand out against the best colour in the world...black! Have fun with the new rims... Cheers Rob.
