purestrx7

I am close to deciding on the wheels I would like to purchase for my FD. I am inbetween the brands MB Designs, Konig, and Nakayama. I havent heard to many good things about konig but the cheap prices are hard to resist. The prices on the other two arent to much more money either. So I was curious if anyone had these brands and what their expirence was with them. I will not be using them for AutoX just for daily driving n occasional racing. Thanks

neofreak

All of them are low quality, ghetto knockoffs.

I'd rather use stock wheels.

rynberg

Definitely.

SpeedKing

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Stock FD wheels IMO are underrated. You can't beat them for strength and lightness. You know, I'd even take 'em over some of the "high quality" aftermarket wheels (HRE, Advan, et al.). Sure these wheels look great, but they're also a LOT heavier. Notice people still use the stockers in auto-X, drag racing, and track events?

purestrx7

What about RO_JA?

rynberg

With the exception of the 5zigen FN-01RC, if you can buy it at discount tire, it's a low quality wheel.

Quality wheel brands: 5zigen, SSR, Volk, CCW, Racing Hart, Fikse, Kinesis, Forgeline, etc

Bottom-line, if you see the wheel brand on a Civic at the mall, odds are that it's not a brand you want to put on your FD.

Scrapiron7

Not always true. Racing Sparco's are sold there. I know personally that the NT-Rs are high quality and very light weight for their size.

http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di...pe=Car/Minivan

But generally speaking, yeah most stuff at that site isn't very good quality.

Edit - wow I don't remember seeing these on the site before:

http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di...odeIndex=78612

Thats alot of $$ per wheel

neofreak

Or FC.. or any rotary for that matter.

Broken09

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I've seen a bunch of local kids dent or crack two of these three brands of these wheels just daily driving them and hitting small bumps. Yes they're cheap but if you consider you might have to replace one or more in a years time it adds up. Just save up and buy a higher quality wheel. As the saying goes you get what you pay for.

TO240

If you're not going to get real rims don't bother wasting your money. Knockoff rims on a nice car kill the effect.

I laugh at people when they try to compare their konig's or whatever against my rims.

PVerdieck

Exactly, if its on a piece of crap, then it is crap. If it is cheap, then it is crap.

The best bargain in wheels is getting used FD ones from the classified forum.

rynberg

Exactly! I recently purchased a set of year-old Enkei RP-01s with nearly new Toyo T1-S tires for $1150. Considering getting top-of-the-line tires and mounting them on the stock rims would be about $700-800, not a bad deal!

For those looking at budget rims, look for good quality used wheels. If I wouldn't have found the Enkei's so cheap, I would have purchased a set of SSR Competitions, which are the best performance/dollar wheel I have found. When I burn through the T1-S tires, I might sell the Enkei's and pick up the SSR Comps anyway.

Scrapiron7

I'm surprised how many people (not FDs) that I have seen with Konigs on their cars, and they think the world of those rims. Silly people Guess they don't know any better. Putting Konig rims on an FD would be like buying a Sparcomatic stereo for the FD!

TO240

People think that just because SCC or whatever has ads for KONIG they are good rims.

Honest to god, I've had people with American Eagle rims ask me if my Advan's are a knock-off brand of rims.

SiKoPaThX

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I may have to counter on the Racing Hart's being high quality. I have 3 peice c2's and the lips on these things are like play dough....I had an accident on left front quarter and found damage on the right front wheel. I love my wheels so much but now that they're out of production, replacement if they can't be fixed is a bitch. I just bought a full set only to replace 2 wheels. 1300 with tires in 18x8 +42

B_Rock

I really don't see the problem with Konig wheels. Sure, a couple in their line are knockoffs, but they have just as many designs that have been knocked off. Personally, I wouldn't put them on my FD, but i do have a set on my civic and i'm totally happy with them. It just depends what you want to do with your wheels, and ultimately it boils down to what the owner would like on the car (still wouldn't put these wheels on my rx7, but that's just me). But you also have to realize that knocking off other designs isn't just for the "low end" wheel manufacturers. Just look at the Blitz Technospeed Z1's and the Volk GT-N's. Both are high end wheels that look damn near identical.

Purestrx7, the bottom line is do some research and decide for yourself what you want. The general rule of thumb is that forged wheels are better than cast, try not to get a copied wheel, and chrome is out of style for sportscars right now.

*steps off of soapbox, gets into civic, and drives away...

gnobesav

Don't forget BBS on the list of quality wheels.

neofreak

Like which ones? afaik every one of "their" designs are knockoffs of another manufacturer.

Sorry, no. They're different, sure, they're a similar design, but they are different.

MR_Rick

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your best bet for saving a few bucks and getting some wheels is getting some 99 spec rims of www.jt-imports.com. they are 17x8 and 17x8.5 I believe.

http://www.jt-imports.com/Mazda_FD_JDM_Parts.htm

rotoboy661

just get a used set of volks thats wut i did

everything for 1200 w/tires

look:

http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rot...&.dnm=5958.jpg

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...5&pagenumber=1

mike

purestrx7

Its not that I dont have enough money, i got 2k for rims, i just like the designs of them I really liked the ro_ja formula 7 rims and havent heard anything on quality wise, they are 450 or so per wheel in 18's. I was orginally looking for rims that look like stock r34 gtr wheels, but no one could come up with anything similar

David Hayes

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I've had the RO_JA 5 spoke wheels in silver for about 1 year. I love them and haver received many comments about them.

Unfortunately, I'm putting flares on the back and RO_JA doesn't make 18X12 or 12.5. Thus, they're now for sale.

Boosted!

just get Volk wheels

KaiFD3S

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just save your money and look out for some good deals and get the real one and dont get knock off's...

RoTorYRooKiE

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so volks, ssr and advan are bad? seen them all on FF's in So. Orange County...kids born with PLATINUM SPOONS(not the wheels). but anyways...rock your own style! some peeps like bling-bling wheels, some like all silver, some like JDM influenced-styling. your car is your self expression...its about what you like. if i don't like it...who gives a f*?! who the hell am i? you're the one driving it, not me. rock your own style...but you only get as much as you put in.