Nice wheels

 

Here is a pic from the track event over the weekend. The wheels are actually darker than they appear in the photo, but the sun was pretty bright here in Texas on Saturday!

 

wow they really do look impressive but i would like to see them in a nice glossy black too (yes i have seen BATMAN's FD)

 

sweet.......bling bling!!!

 

they look great. I was just wondering if you had any more angles since i was thinking about doing the same thing.

 

Looking good. Congrats. I'm gonna do the same to my FD's but in black.

 

I'm missing out on all that fun! I need to get my engine fixed! heh

 

I do have some close up shots, and some at different angles. I'll post a link to them as soon as I can.

Thanks!

 

I added the on car pics to the album listed above, but here is another link.

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/touring93...Wheels&.view=t

 

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that "bling" du wop du wop d wop du dow!

 

**** tell me about it

 

According to Tirerack my SSR GT1 are on the way. Its snow covered here in STL but as soon as I get my wheels and tires I'll post some pics.


Oh Tire rack is also shipping me a torque wrench since they are two days behind shipping.
18X8
18X9

 

sweet, post pics when you get them on...

 

You could have gone 9 x 18 all around with 45-mm offsets. Use 255/35-18. This is Kyle Bacon's fitment with 18-inch SSR Integral A2s. See if you can change your order. You won't be sorry! You will be sorry when you see how skinny your front tires are with 8 x 18s!!!

BTW that lug wrench is only an adapter that's supposed to work with your tire changing setup breaker bar. Tire Rack provides the 19-mm to 17-mm lug wrench so you'll have a way to get the 17-mm lugs off of the car, since your breaker bar is a 19-mm! FWIW the Tire Rack supplied lug wrench is crap and is a ONE-TIME-USE only piece. The metal used in the tool is too soft to be used one more than one time.

Go ahead ask me how I know

 

Damn TTB, the Tire Rack's completely out of the 255/40-17 Yokohama AVS Intermediates! You must have bought the last set! Man that was a good price at $94 each!

I guess I'm forced to try those new Continental Sport Contact 2s (OE Porsche N2 fitment only though for our cars), huh??!! They're $168 each in 255/40-17...I guess not too bad. They're lightweight tires at 24.3 lbs each!

Here's Continental Tire's pdf file on the tire specs. Note how wide these 255/40-17s are when mounted on 9-inch wide tires-10.7-inches! That's almost a 265!

http://www.conti-online.com/generato...tasheet_en.pdf

 

gunmetal looks good on ANY color in my opinion, especially on cyms

 

They didn't give me a lug wrench. THis is what I got today.
Wheels and tires get here Monday.
Are you saying the 18X9 wheels fit the front with 255/35-18 tire mounted. Unfortunatly there are on the way. I can return the fronts as long as I don't mount them. So do I just tell TireRack I want the same 18X9 with 255/35-18 tires? The rear tires are P265/35WR-18 Pirelli P7000 SUPERSPORT.

SleepR1 now you got me all stired up.

 

Ok
I checked SSR website and the SSRGT1 18X9 come with either +38 or +45 offsets which one should I get. I don't know what Tirerack is sending with the rear wheels but SleepR1 if what your saying is correct I'll return the 18X8 and get a 18X9 for the fronts as long as the front and rear line up. What offset though? I assume they have to be the same as the rear so they line up correctly.

I don't care much about rotating since my FD only see's <3000mile a year.

Comments????

 

Now this looks nice!

 

AWE>.........Damn.......


Looks sweet.....

 

Power,

Make sure you get the 18,9 +45 offset for the front and rear. +45 offset, don't forget. Then utilize a 255/35/18 all the way around.

Good luck.

Rishie

 

Hey those are the wheels I have, 9 x 17, 45-mm offset SSR Integral A2s. Sweet and Simple...Light too at 19 lbs each

Yes 45-mm is the offset you want for the 9 x 18, SSR GT1. Get the 255/35-18 all around, if that is what you got for the rears. The 265/35-18 is too tall...

 

I thought 265 vs. 255 is just the width? The difference between the 265/35-18 and 255/35-18 is just 10mm right? So how can the 265/35-18 be to tall?

Help me understand.

Thanks

 

The overall tire diameter of a 265/35-18 is taller than the overall diameter of a 255/35-18.

You can calculate the overall tire diameter thusly:

[tire width in mm x aspect ratio as a decimal) divided by 25.4] + wheel diameter (inches)

If we do the stock FD Rx7 tire which is 225/50-16, we just plug in the numbers: [(225 x 0.50 x 2)/25.4] + 16 = 24.86

So the stock overall tire diameter is ~24.9 inches.

Now let's do your 265/35-18: [(265 x 0.35 x 2)/25.4] + 18 = 25.3 inches

Now let's do what I suggested, 255/35-18: [(255 x 0.35 x 2)/25.4] + 18 = 25 inches

Wow, it's almost the stock overall tire diameter huh?

We want to stay close to the stock overall tire diameter to maintain the proper ride height of the car as well maintaining the rear end gear ratio...

OK, so now you too can do your own number crunching with any size tire to see if the overall tire diameter close to the stock FD Rx7's

 

you can try this, easier than trying to do the math

http://www.powerdog.com/tiresize.cgi