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Old Sep 5, 2006 | 09:21 PM
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panasport wheels?

I found an old post called FB's look best with_wheels, or soemthing like that. Anyway I saw pictures of rx-7s with panasport wheels I thought looked great. I checked out the website but can't find an application chart. Was hoping you guys could help me out I have the stock wheels on my 84 and I think the panasports look great. Looking to try and spend less than 1000 though including tires.
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Old Sep 5, 2006 | 10:27 PM
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vb/bd has knock-offs that you can easily get everything for $1000
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 01:23 AM
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depends on what size you are looking for, 13s or 15s. You can get them through places like mazdatrix, or you can find a panasport distributor. I currently have a set of 15s (and probably picking up a set of 13s for my race tire next week). Personally, they are great looking wheels.
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 01:24 AM
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oh yeah, under 1 g might be hard to do for both wheels and tires, depends on the tires and if you can find the panas used...
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 01:26 AM
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Like kgray said, if you look into victoriabritish/blackdragonauto then you can get rims that look like panasports without the price tag. If you want the quality of panasports then you're going to be paying for it, and it will be awfully expensive, but the ones in vb/bda are a lot cheaper.
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 01:42 AM
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The VB/BD wheels only come in 13x5.5 though which is a drawback. Watanabe's look almost identical to Panas but are two piece so you can put any size lip you want on them.
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 12:00 PM
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ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PANAS...temZ8021812856

I've bought several things from this guy, all good stuff.
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 12:06 PM
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Or...

...if its an SE:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/panas...QQcmdZViewItem
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 05:35 PM
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Panasports would set my car off really well judging by the white FB there in the second ebay link. I normally don't like the styling of them all that much, I am too much of a meshy type of guy, but those look really good on a white FB.
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 06:12 PM
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Superlite wheels same or as close to Panasports as they come....

www.packracingproducts.com
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 07:16 PM
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Thanks for the advice guys, wheels and tires are a serious money pit, but those panasports look soo good. Never really liked the mesh wheels. Hopefully I'll find something on ebay or somewhere used. I'm hoping to have new wheels and tires on the 7 by spring.
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