I have to ride on your coat tail here. These are the best looking rims made. The kenisis are cool but something about FM10s on the right car. Come on let us see what it looks like. Maybe I'll go wider after I see what it looks like.



Dave

 

Well, I'm thinking I might wait a bit to put tires on the rims ... the car's obviously not going anywhere till Spring. I was going to buy a set of used Hoosier RS tires from www.racetire.com - unless somebody is willing to buy me tires so they can see pics of them on the car

Unfortunately they only have 245/40-17's used ... but for $50 each I can't resist. I'll burn off a set or two of those before I shell out the big bucks for new 255's front and 275's rear.

 

Hoosiers on the street or track? They aren't suitable for street use. They aren't durable enough to handle all the crap you run over on the street. From experience, I can tell you BFG g-force R1s tend to lose chunks of rubber from the tread area if used on the street, and I suspect that Hoosiers would be even more prone to such damage.

-Max

 

Ryan,

Max is right. Hoosier expressly forbids anyone to use their DOT racing tires for the street. Hoosier's not fooling anyone. They don't call R3S03s "cheater slicks" for nothing.

I ran my new stickered Hoosiers yesterday at Putnam Park. It took only 1 session to burn off the stickers, and 3 sessions to wear away the faint grooves the tires come with. All that's left are the 2 inner grooves. The rest is slick.

You're better off putting street tires on the Fikse if street duty is what the Fikse will see...

 

wow, those rims look REALLY good.
What sizes and offsets did you use?

 

17x8 225 40 zr 17 in front and 17x8.5 255 40 zr 17 in back...I don't remember off hand what the offsets are. I posted them in a post that Boosted had made previous to this. He was trying to make a decision on which rims to get. I gotta hand it to him he picked out some nice ones.

 

Freaks! How many times do I have to say this ... my car will not be driven on the street, ever. It's going to be a trailer queen. It's only purpose will be for me to get my jollies on a road course.

 

Those look really good. I'll have to decide if I want to get rid of my current rims. See what you did?

 

Sorry, Ryan, I wasn't aware that your car would strictly be a race car. Well, I hope you get it together soon. I have grand plans for my Motorsports Driving Club racing program. I'm basically going to set up a series for the midwest that allows cars that don't fit into SCCA's rules. Your car will definitely will be one of those cars, as well as others who've completely modded out their sports cars to insane levels

 

Cool! Sounds awesome, and I know you're the man to do it Manny! SCCA rules suck *** btw, so anything that lets me race without having to deal with them is ok by me

 

Hey guys

Are those Fiske's wheels the ones that are pictured on the black FC the ones that were pictured in a earlier post without the rubber. If so are these the ones that are 17x8.5 37.7 mm offset, 17x9.5 37.7 mm offset.

Chris Y.

 

Depending on why you are asking, Ryan had to use special offsets because he has the Mariah front fenders.

IF you have an FC with the standard body, you should get the 17,8 and 17,9.5. Both of these should have the 37.7mm offset.

The black GTR is not the same width as Ryan's. So if you like Ryan's sizes and think it will look like phisn's it won't. It will look just as good if not better, as wider wheels were used for Ryan.

Either way you can 't go wrong with a FIKSE. You could run 8.5 if you got coilovers and trimmed the fender, but I still think you would be limited on the usable tire size anyways.

See ya, Rishie

 

Oh Rishie and I thought you were my buddy The black car has the same wheels but Boosted went wider then I was willing to go. My back wheel is just inside the fender well. They explained to me that if I were to go wider I would have to roll the fenders which I was not willing to do. But no matter what you do they are in my opinion the best looking wheels on the market.

Later,

DB

 

Rishie

So what does it take to order these wheels from you, but not the size Ryan has. I would go the 17x8 front and 17x9.5 rear setup.
What kind of price am I looking at?

Chris Y.

 

those are some of the nicest rims ive ever seen.

Let see pics of them mounted on your car! I'll get the tissues ready