I would have thought an 8" rim requires a 245 tyre and that would also give more height in the sidewall. PS: that wheel doesn't look as good as I expected because you haven't spaced it. Take a pic with the 25mm spacer in the same place, same angle. For comparison. Tomorrow?
Need to go bigger dude, they're out of proportion. I know it's not what you want to hear but you'll love it when they're done. I use this calculator to work out my tyre sizes. http://www.1010tires.com/tiresizecalculator.asp
I don't have the money to get it done, lol. Thinking of selling them and buying these: Look at this on eBay: 4x LM Style 19" 5x114.3 19x8.5 19x9.5 Staggered Alloy Sport Rims Mags Wheels http://bit.ly/VKbXIs Then putting my tyres on them and selling the speedy rims bare. I know it's the weak way out, but I don't have $1,600 to step lip the rims at the moment and I can't run around with them looking shithouse forever and a day.
Specifications: - Design: BBS LM Styling Color: Hyper Silver Front Wheel Size: 19-inches Front Wheel Width: 8.5-inches Rear Wheel Size: 19-inches Rear Wheel Size: 9.5-inches Stud Pattern: 5x114.3 PCD Front Wheel Offset / ET: 40 Rear Wheel Offset / ET: 45 Center Bore: 73.1 Yeah it does Pretty sunk yo.
I think 17" minimum for 2+0 & 18" minimum for 2+2. I don't actually have any decent pics of the slicktop.
K.rider is selling his Zed. All this wheel stuff gave him a brain explosion Poor un:zlove: Sim, why does your rear rubber look too narrow for your rim & what happened to your front bumper where it butts up against the fender? (The sunken/raised part which is hilighted)
Because the tyre is stretched. Nothing, it's just a slight mis-match in colour and the lighting in the photo.
Cheers! All tyres are Federal 595's.... REAR: 255/40 on Rays Engineering Volk Racing GR-C's. That's minimum, could fit wider. FRONT: 235/45.
they look like diff wheels front to rear on my phone, so I will take another look with a PC. K.rider, you must be happy with the look of those wheels. looks a bit Ferrari-ish to me
They are different rims front and back. I am happy I suppose... I am still not sure. I haven't been able to drive the car anywhere to see it at varying angles because one of the spacers studs are bent and I can't get the rim onto them. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you David? Lol. Taking them back to 999 now and I'll see how the sale of the rims go. On a good note, a 25mm spacer on the front sits fine and the rears don't need to be spaced at all.
I've always found the 18's+ to be a terrible unforgiving ride on nz's country roads (chipseal), but the 17's seem to just have enough sidewall to take the edge off without losing too much handling.
You would not be using the spacers that l returned, because the ones I used were not the right size for our cars. I told them that l wanted hub centric for Z32, but the ones they sold me were approx 70mm bore and no collar. Obviously l was blind and didn't notice the wrong bore when looking inside the bubble wrap envelope. BUT l told you all that while you were sipping your second beer. Did you buy the wrong ones? or do they have collar inserts? What is that "O" on the floor? PS: they spent 20 mins looking at the spacers before giving a refund.
Yes I knew this, I had no intentions of keeping those spacers. I just wanted to get the rims on to have a look. If I liked them, I was going to return them and get GKTECH spacers. Saves the hassle of getting a refund through an online store. The spacers you had were the same exact set that I bought and just returned.
Check my Garage Sparco Racers look alright Note: I plan to blacken the insets though and reanodise the centres (similar to kiffs - check his out as well - except his are all black with red stripe and mine will be black centre/chrome and red stripe) I do have different variations of mine in different colours (photoshop jobs) So if you do like sparco racers then I will forward you my photoshops on request no probs Cheers
I only used one of them, the other one stayed in the bubble wrap. Trent, you do realise that the studs were only positioned in the holes and still had to be pushed in from the back? Stud would not have been bent, just wasn't seated correctly because that one had never been fitted to a car. The one with the straight studs had been aligned and fitted when it was on my car, so those studs were seated. Anyway you took them back (no sale)
