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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 05:11 PM
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What do you guys think of these rims?

I've been thinking lately that I need rims...so with help from gregs here's a pic of a set i like...

what do you guys think?
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 05:13 PM
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i like em hector
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 05:22 PM
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they are cool
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 05:25 PM
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Sweet. They really suit the car.
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:23 PM
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They look good, I think those are ones I considered before. Just make sure you brakes are lookin good before you put them on, or they will be exposed and rusty looking
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:25 PM
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Is that 2 other FB's I see in the backround? I also have 3 of these cars...
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:29 PM
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the others you see peaking in the picture are 82transam in the red and inittab in the brown...



good point about the brakes though...you tell me...what do you think?

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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:30 PM
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:34 PM
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Ech. I don't like them at all. Too spokey and big. I think the FB looks great on a set of 15s or 16s, but aren't those 17s? They look too big for the car. Bling Bling

But I'm also really picky. To each his own
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:49 PM
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nah- they look GOOD!
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 08:03 PM
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They look good dimensionally but the dark color doesn't work with the white....you need graphics or some kind of help in the paint department for those rims...plain white can't support those rims...
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 09:08 PM
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Ech. I don't like them at all. Too spokey and big. I think the FB looks great on a set of 15s or 16s, but aren't those 17s? They look too big for the car. Bling Bling

But I'm also really picky. To each his own
Personally, I agree with 17's being too big for the FB. I special ordered a set of Volk Racing TE37 in the Bronze 15x8 rear and 15X7 front. Rubber will be 205/50/15 front and 225/50/15 rear. Hopefully my bro will send them from Japan in the upcoming days. Can't wait for them to come in
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 09:10 PM
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They look good dimensionally but the dark color doesn't work with the white
I agree. maybe just silver color wheels. I like the wheels though, just not the color.
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 09:40 PM
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15's look best on this car, IMO, and anything larger than that is simply overkill. The SE's came from Mazda with 14x5.5, so 15x6 is about perfect to fit the fender wells and still look good, but hey, I'm biased,...

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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 10:59 PM
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I was going to get that very style of rim on CBird, LongDuck, but decided on some Enkei NTO+Ms, instead.....looks good....
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 11:18 PM
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Hey man I like the rims. But like mentioned in earlier threads that 17's are too big for the 1st gen. Just my 2 pennies thats all.
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 11:24 PM
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They'd look better on my car and in 15". I don't like bronze/gold with white cars. Looks yucky. But how can you make an FB not look sexy?
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 11:28 PM
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They'd look better if they weren't photochopped.

They should look great in 16/7.
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Old Jul 31, 2004 | 12:48 AM
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well...although they look pretty big those are 16's...maybe the photochop doesn't do them justice...

15's i think are too close to the 14's and 17's i agree are way overkill...

does someone have 16's that they can post?
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Old Jul 31, 2004 | 01:13 PM
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Love the rims man. Mind if i ask what kind they are? I'm personally looking at some Enkei CDR-9's (if i can get them) and they sit about a 16 aswell. The color doesn't go well with the white though, I'd go with some polished alluminum (sp) it's more of a "natural" look (if there is one)
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Old Jul 31, 2004 | 01:19 PM
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Scratch that the enkei's won't fit (diff. bolt pattern) but if anhone can suggest a nice 5 or 9 spoke wheel i'll be open to suggestions....
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Old Jul 31, 2004 | 02:00 PM
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I'm not feeling those rims. Of course I'm biased because I'm not a big fan of putting new school rims on a old school car. I'd rather see something like longchamps,watanabe,panasports, or something of that sort.
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Old Jul 31, 2004 | 02:24 PM
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17's aint to big, I got them on my janx yo.
I wish I could post pictures but I just got a set of 17 konig imagines on my car (same exact rims as MAX7) with 215/45 rubber all around and havent had much problems with rubbing besides some use on the road coarse in which they rubbed but havent cut the tire.
Besides, Im rolling the fenders and painting the car this week. Look up pictures of max7s car and I guaruntee you they're not too big.
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Old Aug 2, 2004 | 01:22 PM
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Do Konig's Imagine's fit on a first gen...where the hell do you ppl get these rims from all i'm getting are the stock rims for my kind of bolt patern. are there some kind of universal rims or something?
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Old Aug 2, 2004 | 01:24 PM
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these are universal rims...i was looking in ebay
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