best size rims on a vert

Post by **slip69** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:59 pm

sorry if this has been asked before..i tried searching but no results. i wanted to go with 18's but was not sure if they would fit ok and if there where any problems reported with 18's cause of the excess weight on a vert. thanks

Post by **Eikon** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:12 pm

slip69 wrote:sorry if this has been asked before..i tried searching but no results. i wanted to go with 18's but was not sure if they would fit ok and if there where any problems reported with 18's cause of the excess weight on a vert. thanks

Are you buying tin rims? The weight of the convertible will effect the rims you choose. I've not heard of few extra pounds causing a rim to fail. Now if your putting some 18 x 7 cheap knockoffs on a H1 hummer... then you might have a problem.

As for looks... I've seen some nice 18's on a 'vert and I've seen some that just look a little big. I've got 17's on mine, and they actually look a little small for the wheel well.

Anything from 16's to 18's should be just fine depending on your taste.

Post by **slip69** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:31 pm

thanks , yeah my main thing was covering that wheel well gap, i just thought that with the weight of the top the tires mught rub more often . thanks again for the help

Post by **daz1320** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:43 am

get coilovers.

Post by **slip69** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:15 am

im on a tight budget and coilovers are pricey as opposed to lowering springs..i wish i could afford coilovers for my car

Post by **Shift_Oversteer** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:32 am

18's baby

Post by **madcowvert** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:16 am

get full body coilovers and go with 17's

Post by **slip69** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:50 am

damm both your guys rides look nice

Post by **madcowvert** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:07 pm

yhea and nice on 17's! the car top is a 180sx type x and no it's not that ladys shes from the shiping company that picked up the car..

offset is every thing it can make or brake wheels...

Post by **slip69** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:43 pm

off set ? which is better?

Post by **top_secret** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:09 pm

17x9/10 +20 would be an awesome combo, 18 is kinda large and you gotta pull fenders and stretch tires to get a decent size/offst under the stock sheetmetal. Besides 18's weigh a lot and unless you have gigantic brakes they are completely unnecessary. are you going for bling or ?

Post by **slip69** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:40 pm

no just something nice. but i think im just going to paint my stock ones. i have a teenage boy , a 9yr old and another one on the way. is going to be kinda hard to justify spending cash on rims to the wife cause i'll get the "you know how much stuff we can buy for the baby with that" speech anyone ever painted the stock rims? and what color would look good with a red vert?

Post by **madcowvert** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:32 pm

17x8 offset +32 17x9 offset +38

rbmotoring.com always has some good and nice wheels that are used!!!

Post by **top_secret** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:42 pm

RB motoring has some nice rims but you have to be careful, most of the offsets on there are off toyotas or mazdas and the offsets are too high to look good (or in many cases even fit) a RWD nissan... unless you want to have to purchase spacers make sure you double check offsets.

as for painting go with bronze, thats what my friend did for his stockers and it looked pretty darn good.

A guy I know here in houston is selling 4 17x7 +40 with good tires for $400 if you are interested. they are like advan 7 spoke knock offs.

Post by **madcowvert** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:50 pm

and that's why you have to look at the offset!!!!

i just got my rims from them and there fine in really good shape $680 shiped to florida, for a set of work wheel's you cant beat that

Post by **slip69** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:54 pm

damm thats nice and good price ...i guess i could sbeak that one in my budget for that price..thanks i'll go check them out right now.....as far as color, will gun metal look good with a red vert? i ask cause i really am color blind. i once almost bought a pink shirt cause it looked tan to me but luckily my wife saved me that day

Post by **top_secret** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:07 am

I want to go 5 lug and grab those trial zeldas that just went up at rbmotoring.. my dream wheels!

Post by **madcowvert** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:45 am

slip69 wrote:damm thats nice and good price ...i guess i could sbeak that one in my budget for that price..thanks i'll go check them out right now.....as far as color, will gun metal look good with a red vert? i ask cause i really am color blind. i once almost bought a pink shirt cause it looked tan to me but luckily my wife saved me that day

thats a funny story i would go with gun metal or bronze !

yhea i am going 5 lug and also puting 300zx brakes when it all done i will post pictures

Post by **top_secret** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:00 pm

yeah I'm doing 5 lug rears in the next couple weeks but I'm still getting parts together for the fronts, I think I'm going to do the Z33 track rotor swap for teh sex.

Post by **madcowvert** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:18 pm

wow well i have a set of s14 spindels all you would need is to buy the front s14 hub's

Post by **top_secret** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:55 am

yeah but I just bought new front control arms and ball joints so I may just get the peak performance hubs.

Post by **JSvert240sx** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:42 am

I'd vote for 17's......I have 18's and they're nice, but harsh ride and I've lost a couple tires despite being careful.

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