Alrighty, I picked up the TSW EVOs for the car last night, and put them on tonight.

They fit great, and the new rear tires actually have some meat to them (255 50 ZR17s). On to the pics!

Some actual tread width, finally!


Side shot (can't wait till it's out of the garage, so I can get some nice daytime shots, from a good angle...


One more side shot...


I'm working on cleaing up my new (to me) Turbo II seats, and getting them put in one night next week, then I just need to pick up my exhaust from my Indy connection, and I'm good to go.

 

Congrats.. Maybe that v8 will hook up now!!!

 

Shhhhh! that's a secret. LOL

On a serious note, I actually did the opposite of 99% of the people on this board, and went for wheels that are actually fairly heavy (not sure of actual weight, but they're pretty thick), to try and knock out a little of the wheelspin, as it is intended to be a street car, and I fear that light weight wheels and street tires would = lots of smoke.... which, while fun, gets expensive fast. LOL

 

those wheels look great on the car did you pick those rims out or did someone have them for a good deal and you got them

 

thats one HUGE wheel gap

 

255/50r17 is over 2.5" taller than the stock tire. Why did you go with that size? And intendingly choosing a heavy wheel to decrease performance is just dumb. Not only do heavy wheel hurt acceleration, they make every aspect of the car suffer, hanlding, road feel, etc. Of course that heavy *** thing under your hood doesnt help that either, so I guess its not that big of a deal

 

Near 500 lbs/ft torque (before nitrous) is why I chose a heavy *** wheel (these ARE for street use, I have other wheels for track use, that weigh about 14 lbs each for a 16x7" wheel, with Nittos). As far as the height, that piece of crap, no good pissed-on engine only revs to about 6400 RPM, and that + 4.10s = asstacular gas milage, so a higher tire effectively lowers my gear ratio, and drops my 70 mph cruising rpm by something like 400.

I had 4-5 friends with wheels they were trying to sell that actually fit. These were the best combo of price/style/size for my preference.

Oh, and the wheel gap looks big from that angle, it's actually about 1.5" in the rear, and 1.25" in the front.. less then that, and I'd rub in the corners, so that where she'll stay (my friend has the same size wheel/tire, and he rubs like crazy in any kind of bump/corner. Eventually it will have a modified Tripoint widebody on it, so I'll (obviously) have new wheels when I do that.

 

paintem black

 

nah, I already painted everything else black.

My track wheels are black. They're basically a clone of the Infini IV wheels, 16x7" meshies, black center, polished lip.

 

Don't look too bad. I would have opted for a wider rear with a nice deep lip, but thats just me. My eyes are bigger than my wallet and I have no room to talk, so good job.

 

Yeah, I do like the deep lip look myself as well, but the price was right, and these actually are a wide wheel (like I said, 255s in the back) so it's not lacking on actual tread on the road, just doesn't "look" as wide.

 

14 lbs WITH THE TIRES?

or u mean 14lb wheel + nittos

 

I wish it was 14 lbs with the tires.

No, 14 lbs wheels + Nittos.

 

Whats the BS on thoes wheels??? im looking to get the same size tires under my v8 7 but dont know what the wheels need to be to get it to fit.

 

they look like **** sorry just not my taste

 

I like them minus the blue. Congrats

 

I'm honestly not sure the backspacing on them, I picked them up used, off another V8-RX7.

As far as looking like ****, each to their own mi amigo, thanks for the ever so constructive criticism.

A better pic:

 

they look better in that pic than in the garage pics, but look too much like honda wheels without a lip...

 

hehe i had a set of those on my parts car, they are fairly wide.

I wanna know what width those rims are to fit a 255. i want 255's lol