So now that the 20beest has been running for the past year and is dialed in and tuned on 10psi its time to work on the t56/8.8 swap, wheels and brakes to finish the car.
I picked up the jline sdmsl2 17 inch 3 piece wheels for doing some side work for a local guy. The wheels made the car look better but still wasn't what I was after even after widening them a additonal 1.25". The problem was offset which was causing rubbing and limited me to stretched tires which in my opinion is pathetic.The 20beest was built to be a fully functional street car that I can track as well as drive on long distance road trips.

The 255s stretched on the 10.75 wide wheel simply would not hold the power of the 20b so it was time to grow up and buy a set of real wheels.
I shopped around looking at work, ccw, ssr and bbs wheels for some time. I wanted a wheel thats not very common to the everyday wheel swapped rx7 and 3 piece so I had options. Customer service was a huge thing also for me considering jline is still around but the distributors cannot get ahold of them.
One of the biggest issues was fitment. I wanted to run tires as wide as possible in the rear and a tire that was wide enough in the front without rubbing and of course NO stretching.

After months of shopping, reading and pulling my hair out I met Rich Farrell through facebook who is goodfellafd3s on the forums here.
He turned me onto Fikse wheels that he sells. The biggest seller was he knew exactly what would fit and what size tires I needed for my application. This alone was worth every penny as price is not a issue for me on this car.
I ended up buying some Satin Silver face, polished lips, Profil10 in 18x9.5 plus 38 and 18x10.5 plus 38 3 piece billet wheels.
Took about 7 weeks to be made to my order but oh so worth it.
The quality of these wheels is top notch and breathtaking. They are very light as well.
I also picked up a set of Mcguard lug nuts to help protect the wheels as well as guarantee a proper torque reading when tightening which Rich also turned me onto. I also grabbed a set of hubcentric 3mm spacers and 5mm spacers
Tires was pretty simple. I knew what sizes I wanted thanks to Rich.
I ended up grabbing some Yokohama Advan Neova AD08R 295 30 18 and 255 35 18.

I must say these wheels and tires has made the car and im in love all over again. The bonus is the amount of traction the tires provide along with the new stance coilovers on the car that are still under product testing.

Anyone interested in grabbing some fikse wheels contact goodfellafd3s/ Rich Farrell for Top notch service, pricing and customer support.
Thanks Rich

I have a little surprise chip ursu will be doing on the center caps in the follong weeks. Stay tuned

 

 

Here are the before photos with the jlines. UGLY

 

Those sit beautifully.