new wheels & tires = a happy muppet
12-08-2003, 01:04 AM
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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!
12-08-2003, 10:52 AM
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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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12-08-2003, 11:37 AM
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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.
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.
12-08-2003, 03:48 PM
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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.
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.
12-08-2003, 06:39 PM
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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?)
12-08-2003, 06:53 PM
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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.
12-08-2003, 07:11 PM
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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...
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...
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12-08-2003, 07:18 PM
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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
12-08-2003, 07:21 PM
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EDIT: In your 5:07PM post you said that the wheels were 8in wide, when they are 8.5in wide. Carry on...