hey.

I just almost read every sticky here and could not find anything to help me out. i found stock rim sizes and fd sizes but nothign abotu after market.

anyway. I am looking into purchasing a set of rims. the fronts are a 17 * 7 with a 35mm offset and the rear is a 17 * 9 with a 38 mm ofset.

I plan to use 225/50/17 tires for the front and 255/50/17 for the rear. I an preety sure the front wont rub on the struts or the fenders. But i am not so sure if the back will rub.

This leads to my questios. will the 17* 9 with a 255/50/17 tire fit without any rubbing or will I have to do any mods to fit them on.

Thanks for all the help guys.

it is a 88 gtu if it makes a difference

 

I honestly don't know about if the rears will fit. The fronts should be fine, but might need a spacer of some sort. The rears might need rolled fenders to fit, but I dunno. It'll be cutting it close, probably.
The main thing is that you are going with the wrong tire sizes. Those tires are larger than stock which will throw off the speedo calibration, not to mention hurt your acceleration times by effectively giving you taller gear ratios.
For the fronts I would use 225/45-17's, with 255/40-17's in the rear. The speedo will still be off a bit, but nothing like with the 50 series tires in the rear. If you used 245/40-17s in the rear the speed would be dead on and you would be less likely to hav rubbing issues. I know I have heard of people using that size tire with no modifications.
Edit: here is a thing about tire sizes: http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

 

the 9s should fit good, FCs can have like 9 1/2s in the rear and still look flush

 

thanks 4 the help fellas. if anyone has done it pls let me know how it turned out

 

it'll be fine at hte back if u get the correct offset
i think probably +10 to +20
not sure abt front

 

the offset is 38 the the rims that I want.

 

i have 17x9's with a +38 offset with 275's in the rear and i have no rubbing and no spacers. However i do have coilovers.

 

17X8F & 17X9R

 

Nice wheels, nice tires

 

Silver RPF-1s on look so Secks on FCs...

Too bad they're like 1200 a set :p

I would suggest you just get 17X8's all around if you want to be able to rotate your tires like a normal person and not ruin need to change out half your tires every 10,000 miles because you couldn't rotate them.

Unless you've got a LOT of power, or a lot of time and money to get new tires 2x as much.

 

Here's a good resource for all wheel size questions, courtesy of RETed:

http://fc3spro.com/TECH/MODS/RT/rims.htm

 

thanks for all the help guys. im gonna go ahead and pick up the wheels tom. the pics definitely helped out a lot, and 88t2romad I apreciate the reply man, casue i also have coilovers.

once again thanks to all of you guys that replied. it really helped me out.

 

Natey, what profile are the tires. are they 45 or lower.

 

They're 40's (235/40-17 F and 255/40-17 R) and my FC was slammed on HKS drift-spec coilovers in the pics.

I miss that car.