damn... 8.5 nice nice... mine are 7.5 wide. im running 34 all the way around right now. sooo nice. s-03's own! wait till you break them in. i thought they were great the first day, by the 3rd they had gotten much stickier!

 

S-03s are so great. Everyone I know swears by them. If I didn't have to fork out for so many other things at the same time, I would have held out for the S-03s. Okay, maybe next replacement time.

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32lbs? Thats 4lbs less than the stockers! i weighed stockers in at 38lbs.

 

i sure didn't notice the slightest bit of change in the way the car accelerated when i drove it last night, so i'm guessing that even though my wheels are wider, they weight only a fraction more.

i can hardly wait until i've got the tires scrubbed in. the RE92s had so little grip when i took them off it was laughable.

 

way to go Don. The car looks great. doesn't the car handle so much better with them stockies off. Man, i'm so happy for you.

 

So now you better come out for the drive on the 21st. It starts in Livermore. I think it's closer to you right?

 

Wow... $1900's a lil outta my range
But hey you only live once right?
Congrats again!

 

the car is a night and day differance. with my STi suspension, there used to be a hell of a lot of sidewall flex that screwed up the handling. now, there is virtually none. i can hardly wait to get to an auto-x event now that i won't be sliding all over the damn place.

i won't be able to make the drive on the 21st, i leave SFO for Stuttgart on the 20th. i'm going to go spend ten days in southern Germany, drinking beer and doing my damndest to get onto the Nuremburgring, even if i have to drive a rental Ford Foucs!

oh yeah, and now that i've driven it a litte more, the car accelerates a lot quicker. i was wrong, the new wheels weight a lot less than the stockers.

 

In pic #3 it says that the wheels are 8.5in wide. With wheels that wide you can fit 245/40 or even 255/40, but they may rub w/ stock suspension. Congrats on the new Gram Lites! (Does anyone have their new Dragon exhaust?)

 

245s will rub with stock suspension. to run tires that wide, you need the extra room in the fenderwell that narrower coilovers give you. i've got STi struts, and a tire that big would rub on my setup. if and when i step up to coilovers, i may experiment with wider rubber.

 

I said that...

Is that why you bought 8.5 in wheels - so later you can get wider tires w/o having to buy another set of wheels?

EDIT: In your 5:07PM post you said that the wheels were 8in wide, when they are 8.5in wide. Carry on...

 

thats part of it. i like having the option to go with wider rubber in the future if i upgrade the suspension even further. the other part is that 225s fit better on the wider wheel. you can mount 225s on a 7" wide rim, and they'll work just fine. you just won't get the same sort of contact patch that you would with say an 8" or 8.5" rim. i had originally inteded to go with a 7.5" width, but once i found these, and found that they were only like $12/wheel more than the 7.5s, my choice got real easy real quick

 

oops, typo. the picture gives the correct dimensions.

 

nope. gunmetal, silver and gold are the only colors available. mine are gunmetal.