Rim Thread

[jjgrizz73]

Tire rack.com?

I see they so those generals,and they are dirt cheap...

Wondering if they are any good.........

The exclaim uhp got pretty darn good ratings in every category. I will be picking up 4 this spring 255/35/18's and see how they work...

 

[UGOT8UP]

255/35R18?? will those even fit?

 

[VETTE_50_TH]

Yea, 255 will fit on a 8.5 inch rim.

James

 

[mitsu_matt]

First picture is my p.o.s. 18 x8 Enkie RS6's

Second are the Volks I am looking at getting.

 

[mattdev]

16" ASA LS5 +38. In my profile pics. Duplicolor Bronze

 

[UGOT8UP]

I've got a set of those in 16's I'll sell ya

 

[93clips]

HP racing 17s
rollin on falken azenis r17/40/225
looks decent

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[TSIMonsteR]

Terrible and old picture, but I still rock the OEMs with 225/45/17 and stock springs in this picture.

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[PieEyedPiper]

Terrible and old picture, but I still rock the OEMs with 225/45/17 and stock springs in this picture.

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As do I. I had them painted Duplicolor "Graphite" for a year or more but I've since stripped them down to the bare metal. They look decent, and kind of rugged, but in a good way.
I think I'm liking the idea of trying the Duplicolor Bronze, as seen above. I was worried it would be too pale/light/bright, but after seeing those shots it doesn't look bad at all. I still think I'd like them darker though. Maybe a layer of graphite under the bronze? I dunno.

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Havent put them on the car yet but ill post up pics after i get some tires put on them.

Looks good. Is that just black?

 

[snowborder714]

18x7.5 Racing Hart Evolution C2

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[TSIMonsteR]

I have a set of Excel 17x7.5 that I'm thinking of getting coated mirror black chrome. Anyone have a picture of a Red 2G with shiny black wheels?

EDIT, yay for gallery 3160637611 14b3e4c42e B - photo shoot new rims DSMtuners Gallery

Nice pics thus far, btw!

 

[Lumix315]

18x7.5 Racing Hart Evolution C2

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Man, It's SO clean!!!

 

[Black91TSiAWD]

I think you should go with these big guy!
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ford probe wheels or borbet? they kinda look like both.

 

[Detail]

5Zigen FN01RC 17x8 45 offset
BFG KDW2 225-45-17

2g Talon - Talon right after JIC install DSMtuners Gallery

 

[BoostFrenzy]

5Zigen FN01RC 17x8 45 offset
BFG KDW2 225-45-17

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[SeaveeDSM]

The rim:

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Mounted on the car:

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"Cut and paste reply" from another post where someone asked me about fender clearance, tire rub issues with the 18" rims:

I have the Eibach Pro-kit springs, not the Eibach Sportline kit which lowers the car MORE than the Pro-kit. The Pro-kit lowers it about 1.3 inches, I can't recall the amount the sportline kit does. I also have Tokico Illumina shocks. At Road Race Engineering there are pics of a 2G Eclipse with both versions and you can see the sportline is clearly lower.

Oh, I also have RRE's camber correction kits for both front and back. This is important for you to know as the wheels with the camber corrections installed do not lean IN as much once your car is lowered. In other words if the car is lowered and you DON'T use a camber correction kit, since the wheels lean in more you are less likely prone to have a tire/fender well clearance issue than with the camber correction kit in place. However, depending on just how low you go and how large wheels/tires you can still get wheel rub regardless of having or not camber correction kits installed.

Finally, my rims are Exel brand, "Fame" Hyperlight color model which are 18" X 7.5 (versus 16" X 6 IIRC on a stock GST) but I am not sure what offset rings were used. My tires are Nexxen 5000 225/40/18. Here are the rims: Shop for Wheels

With ALL of the above in place I have no tire rub issues on the front wheels at all. I did initially have a slight tire rub issue on the back wheels - but only on hard cornering or a bad bump. I was able to fix it by rolling the rear fenders. It was easy to do as follows (first one side then the other): I jacked up the car and took off the rear wheel. Then using a cutting wheel, I cut about 8 1/4 to 3/8 inch deep cuts (each cut about 2 inches or so apart and along the the INNER side of the top 1/2 of the fender well). Then remounted the rim/tire onto the car and using the jack I raised the back corner of the car, which made the tire drop and opened a larger gap between the top of the tire and bottom of the fender well. Then while raised like this I inserted a 2"x 2" X 8" piece of wood between the top of the tire and fender well and and slowly lowered the car onto the wood - and in the process used the wood as a lever to bend in the fender-well. I did this at each cut, moving the wood along raising and lowering the jack so as to have a uniform roll IN along the upper radius of the fender. When finished, using a small modelling brush I painted each of the cuts very thoroughly with several coats of white rustoleum paint so as to avoid any rust there in the future. Note, you can NOT see the cuts OR the touch up paint AT ALL from outside the car with the wheel on. The fix is only visible with the wheel off. Did this on both rear wheel fenders.

The rub prior to this was so minimal that I think without the camber correction kit I would not have had ANY rub at all. With that said however, even though NOT using a camber correction might reduce the chance of tire/fender rub, I believe you should STILL use the camber correction kit(s) because tires leaning inwards significantly to me just look "wrong" and I assume will wear unevenly as well.

The entire process of rolling the rear fenders in as per above was about 1-1/2 hours.

 

[Captainredeyez]

Excellent explaination... I think I'll be getting your suspension set up for my car. I'm going with 18's myself and the info you just put up has helped me on deciding. Thanks

 

[Detail]

*PSST! You are supposed to post a picture *

I couldn't get the stinking link feature working.

I do have a reg 2g with shiny black wheels though, click the link!

 

[97 GSX 97]

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18X8 +38 offset

 

[meliketoball]

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18X8 +38 offset

reminds me of the vette rims, maybe a particular Ferrari rim too.

 

[DSMunknown]

Over played but impossible to find a good set that the seller isnt trying to rape you on the price.

Got mine for 575 shipped, including 85% MX rubba.

 

[Black420RS]

these are my 18´s

 

[boostin92awd]

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These are the rims that came on it when I got it Im thinking of painting them bronze

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[beyondspexj]

Here is my new rims. Not installed, but image sent from the owner of them. I get them in about 2 weeks.

EVOX rims. 18x8.5 38mm spacing powdercoated VOLK bronze

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James

definetly interested in pics once you get them on!! a buddy of mine just powdercoated a set gold for a black evo 9 a few weeks ago.

 

[GSTyler]

Here are a pic of mine. 18x7.5 225/40

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