So you eneded up getting them. They look great.

Yes Sir!

Hey man I made an Offical Monday Springfield Meet thread.
http://www.mazdaspeedforums.org/foru...d-meet-107122/

You coming out tonight? :scratchchin:

Got fam in, so probably for the next 2 weeks I'm out.

The car looks a million times better in person... these pictures... no justice!

the noooob wants to play!!

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16x8 +9 rear +19 front

oh snapple...a local guy is selling 245/40/18 Nitto 555's w/ 5k on them for $350! Will they fit with a roll and 3mm or 5mm spacers.

Wheels are 5-ZIGEN Fn01r-C 18x8.5 et48 for my 08 Speed3 with stock suspension for now. Soon Racelands or SenSen/eibach spring combo.

They will fit,but you will need to roll the rear fenders or it will rub. Thats the size I had before I went to 235/35/18. And you dont need spacers, should fit fine.

Are you sure he has all 4 of them? Because i believe i know who you are talking about.

I hope so, but he has not pm'd me back again. He wanted me to pick them up last night, but never sent an address....

You should double check, because i believe he only has 2 of them.

This is his post: "Had these on my rx-8 for about 3-4 months. 5k miles at most on them.
Im looking to do a clean trade honestly, on some performance summer tires to go on 07 sti w/ stock wheels. Looking to maybe go w/18's down the road, but just dont want such a tall tire if i do so. let me know what you have.
Tires are awesome, insane grip in both dry and "

Then go with those, because he isnt the same guy :) Good luck

Goob I have some 225/40/18's with 75% tread left.


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interesting...you sir have a PM.

Rich, do you have the entire set or how many of them? I need 2

lol uh o some competition. Yeah I have all 4 equal tread on them but pm me for details.

Im not giving you anything for them, i will just give you your triple gauge pod :)

Well, the dude with the NItto 555s is alive and well. Just waiting for pics of the tires.

I have second thoughts about going 245/40/18s. I am thinking that 225/45/18s would give me a lil more sidewall(better for rougher roads) and will take less work to fit with minimal stretch.

45% of 225 = 101.25 mm

40% of 245 = 98 mm

The sidewall height is only 3.25 mm (~1/8") different (and that's if you're purely using math - when you factor in all the "fugding" there is with tire sizing, it's no doubt a wash).

Cool, 245/40/18s it is. I will get a roll asap.

Got my set of Rota grid 18x8,5... ( Shoulda gone 9,5 i know:( thats what ill do next setup). Now for tires im realy torn up between 225 or 235.... Some say I wont get any stretch with 225 and others say they have slight stretch with there 235... any opinions on what I should go for a nice stance?

run 235/40. its really no stretch, but you dont have the concave grids so a stretch is going to look weird on that wheel.

225 will be a stretch

I got the 245/40/18 Nitto NT 555s and they look like they are going to fit nicely on a 8.5 wheel

Just run 215's f it

Stretch is for pussies. Get some meat on those wheels.

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/c6182dda.jpg

245/40's on 18x8.5's


Tapadatass

Function over fashion...I got the 245/40/18 Nitto NT 555s. I was gonna mount them up tonight but I haz no lugz

needs a small drop to make that much tire look less 4x4

Pretty sure that pic was taken right after being lowered off the jackstands. :scratchchin:

He's on KW coilovers... ;)

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/28d6f19c.jpg

How the car sits right now (with spring spacers in the rear to stop rubbing):

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Tapadatass

that looks good, i especially like the side profile shot. thats nice you dont rub in the rear with that tire width.

@silvapain

What is the effective offset on that setup Daniel?

They're +45's. No spacers. I'm only about 6-7 mm from the coilover shaft on the fronts, but I haven't had any rubbing issues so far. I have some 5mm spacers I can use if it becomes an issue.


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so you do you think I will rub with the 18x8.5s with 245/40s on stock suspension?

Damn, that's a perfect stance

I'm no wheel guru, so I can't tell you for sure. My initial opinion is that if I can fit them on my lowered car with coilovers, you should be able to fit them on the stock suspension.

I'd recommend finding a local NATOR member with wheels similar to the size you want and ask them to let you try them on.


Tapadatass

at +48 you should be okay...not a lot of experience with stock suspension. you may need a 3mm spacer, then you are the same as silva...so whatever prep he did you will need to do (most likely roll. maybe pull/grind rear bumper tab)

I have a question for anyone who has an answer lol. Story is I have a gen 2 lowered on H&R springs , my wheels are 18x8.5 +30. I won't be able to get my fenders rolled till te end of the month but do you think I'll be ok until then? (rubbing)

Depends on your tire size

Probably not.

Not super aggressive but looks good, although i wish wheels were 8.5 wide..

setup is BC Coils, Lightweight Motegi SP-10 HyperBlack 18x8 +40 w/ Kuhmo AST 225/40

tires arnt great but got them for 300 brand new so cant complain

I had to do a roll 'n pull on the rear and grind down the tabs.


Tapadatass

Sorry. Forgot to post that. Stock dunlops I don't even remember what size they are. 225 45 18 I think

OEM GenPu tires are 225/40R18...

Even with those narrowish tires, I would think you're going to need to massage things quite a bit to make those wheels work.

I hope to get away with just a roll if I run the SenSen shocks with Ebiach springs. This will give a very subtle drop.

Looks good, same wheels and same color MS3 as mine :banana:

Did you roll the rears at all when you dropped it? I'm currently on stock suspension and on the stock 215/45 tires and i'm getting some rubbing on the outer shoulder of the tire on the drivers side rear from time to time. I'm about to have to get new tires and I was thinking about going either 225/40 or 235/40 but I haven't lowered the car yet, that will come before too long, probably just some Yellows and Eibach ProKit.

That's what I'm thinking, ohhh post pics up!

Pics please :)

i did a little bit of a roll on the back fenders and then stiffened the back shocks a little bit more and i will only rub if i hit a big bump going really fast. or if i have the car full of people

soo... i figured i should ad more pics..

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2pc. rpf1's
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looks like a ph.chop job.. but still...
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Just got my wheels and tires mounted and put on today, nothing to aggressive

18x8.5 +40

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possibly in the wrong thread?

Lol at the groan from @SamInAustinTX, you posted the same exact fucking wheel setup in here

Actually 19"s and thats why I groaned haha, same wheels. Looks like he may have a bit of a stretch as well.

you def need at LEAST a 3mm spacer in front and 5mm in the rear. preferably 5mm in front and 8mm rear. i like the wheels though. -1 on rusty wheels centers. hit that with some brake caliper black paint.

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18x8.5 ET48

Not extremely aggressive, but I wouldn't want to go anymore aggressive. Already wrinkled paint on the inside edge of the fender wells from rolling the fenders. Eventually I'll learn how to avoid do that.

Yeah I'm probably going to throw 5mm spacers all around. And I put the center caps in now so all the rust is covered


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these recent aggressive set ups... look pretty soft.
wtf... every is posting pics that kind of suck.

wheres the poke.. the stretch... the low offsets??!??!
:sad::irked:

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18x8" +30 225/40/18

I rather enjoy the recent trend of posting setups that have some semblance of functionality to them... :dunno:

A setup shouldn't have to be retardedly misfitted to the car to be considered "aggressive".

Just my $0.02...

my tires have been pretty aggressively destroying my fenders over the past couple days due to my new wheels and tires....evo's with 245/40s. The guy I bought them from stretched 225s onto 18x10.5s...I'll get some pics of it today for everyone who's into that kind of thing.

well i got some pics taken, lowered the front and the rear a little more, still not rubbing, time to go just a little lower and see how we feel.

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@Rokusek We need to paint that front grill piece. Looks like ass, but on the other hand, the pictures turned out fantastic and i am rather jelly :(

Yea, Im waiting on the original pics from my boy who took them and the paint to fix the stache as well... i think the dirtyness of the wheels have grown on me too looks like beat up road cones... time for moar lows

Are you the dude that works at iag by any chance? lol

OR does anyone know where to get fenders pulled in the MD/DC area?!

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They're rolled but every fucking bump (because springs I suppose) they like to make the sidewalls look more and more like spaghetti.

Pull your own fenders fool.

0__o

No thanks lol You gonna roll your fenders with a baseball bat lol

^i was thinking of rolling mine with a bat lol

My fenders are already rolled you tool. And no it wasnt done with a bat :)

Finally did some measurements on the KW's. Tires are Pirelli P-Zero A/S 215/45/18 on OEM rims. On a 1" drop with front camber maxed towards positive, here's what you're looking at:
- Strut perch to inner front tire: 15mm
- Rear outer tire @ -1.5* to top fender: 6mm (tire measured on incline flush with fender)

Best guess, subtract 1mm of inner clearance (front) for every .1" you drop the car.

Your inner clearance shouldn't get any smaller as you lower the car...

The relationship angle between the wheel/tire and the strut is actually increased slightly as the suspension compresses (or is "dropped" via the coilover perch), hence why we talk about "camber loss" in a Macpherson strut setup, and why such relatively large negative static camber values are necessary to get good cornering grip with such a setup.

This means that your wheel/tire-to-strut clearance actually should increase ever-so-slightly as you lower the car (even though your overall static camber is becoming more negative)...

True, but until you clear the apex of the tire's section width, clearance will continue to reduce. Example from a similar size/offset, but a more aggressive drop:

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Nice bush there.

what is your wheel, tire and suspension specs?

I just ordered some hubcentric rings and some lugs...I am :Eyecrazy: about if I will rub or not.

You can pull your own fenders...if you dare bwhahahaha:

Lol.

I was (short-sightedly) coming at this from the perspective of the strut tube clearance only and wasn't even thinking about the perch clearance issue.... Doh!

:34:

Specs on this badboy?

I live around the area, my friend works there in the body shop and they roll fenders.


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here are some more pics: season opener - a set on Flickr

not sure about specs.

i'm on eibach sport springs and the wheels are 18x8 but idk the offset. They came with the car but winters were on and the dude that bought em has no clue. Rubber is 225/45. Fenders are rolled. i have an appointment to get them pulled on April 12

offset is almost always stamped on the rear of the wheel somewhere (spoke, hub). 225/45 rubs on a lowered car because of the taller sidewall than stock. not sure how much pulling will help with a taller tire. and you can pull your own fenders with some heat and a fender roller if you would want to. not sure if that answers your ? since there were none of these (?) in the post.

my question was does anyone know where in md/dc to get fenders pulled. The tires look and fit nicely, they just rub the inside of the fender. What you quoted was a response to someone else's question

dude grab a phone book and heat gun :headbang:

Ivan has pretty much rolled all the local guys I know (various model cars).
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He will TRAVEL to you and knock it out quickly.
Just tell him Phil W/the white MS6 sent you his way.
Ask anyone in the DC/MD thread that has had work done. He's legit.

MB battles.

18x9.5 +15

Your car?

What about pulling? They're already rolled

I wish. The car belongs to a dude in quebec

I like bushes :)

He had to pull mine...lol...you've seen the drop on my 6. :D

Call him up or hit him up on FB...he'll get you where you need to be.

After looking at some of the stuff in this thread, I wouldn't call my shit aggressive...


But here's my new wheels:

Konig Kilogram
18" X 8.5" +40ET
Falken 722 tire @ 245/40/18

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Annnndd...yes. I'm rubbing under certain circumstances. Rolled pretty flat, but not flush.

I think that looks great. :fing02:

Thanks a lot!

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Well the MS3 is my DD so I decided to strip off the nice wheels and make it impractical. Lol

I just put these on today. They're 17x9 +30 MB Battles with a 235-40 not too crazy. They'll look good when the coilovers ever come in.



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^^meh, needs drop

Got my 5-ZIGEN Fn01r-C 18x8.5 et48 w/ Nitto NT 555 extreme ZRs 245/40/18 on the car. No rubbing.

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Next step/; moar lowz :kabong:

They're in the mail...lol.

I needed a reason to rid of these crappy H&R springs. These wheels look like shit now without a hard static drop. These damn GenPus sit like monster trucks even with springs.

Fulton Ranch Road between San Marcos and Wimberley

What or how much you lowered? Push, pulled, or dragged?

Stock Junkass suspension. 245/40/18s are a tad bit taller than the stock 215/45/18s so eats some gap up. I plan to go with SenSen shocks and either Eibach Pro kits for a mild drop or H&Rs for moar lowz. I heard a few rubs this moring on some large dips at highway speeds, but I know its due to the stock craptacular shocks. I can feel it when I ride the bumpstops. I think a 3mm or 5mm spacer would look nice, but would def need to roll the rears. I have plenty of clearence on the frunt struts too. I think my winter setup is closer. I run General Altimax Artics in 215/55/16s (very close to stock specs)on RX7 FDs, but they are bulgy.

Overall I am loving the new found grip and nice ride of the Nittos. I had these on my old E36 ///M3 and loved 'em. Hopefully someone can take a nice photoshot of my car soon :poke:

Put some 5mm spacers on the rear making it 18x8.5 et35, going to put the 5's up front and get 10's for the rear

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