Alright you wheel humpers... here you go.
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Alright you wheel humpers... here you go.
Yeah... this doesn't look like all business or anything.... 
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16x8" Enkei RPF1s +38 offset
225/45/16 Hankook Z212
I have no idea how far the car is lowered, look and guess
Camber is -2.25F -1.7R
Rear fenders were rolled up to the spot welds (1/2 the lip)
No cutting was needed in the front. They surprisingly went on without much of a fight and I didn't have to cut the spring buckets.
I haven't noticed anything rubbing on the inside. The car seems to turn lock to lock freely.
I'm not telling you all to go out and buy 8" wide rims though. As you can see, its an extremely tight fit, and the rims do hang out the sides a hair. I don't care as far as tracking the car goes. I'm gonna say the same for 225 mm tires. You do have to kind of finesse them into the car, they're probably not going to go without a fight (hence I rolled the fenders). My alignment is helping bigtime keeping the fenders safe BUT, you can't stuff a bunch of camber into the front end with camber bolts and expect this to work. I did it with plates, which keep the angle between the hub and the strut constant.
I've got a few miles on them, I'm still scrubbing them in and stuff, so no crazy **** and I won't really know the difference until I can get them out and beat the hell out of them (a few weeks).
Tissues and lotion are in the other room in case anyone feels the urge...
Vital statistics
16x8" Enkei RPF1s +38 offset
225/45/16 Hankook Z212
I have no idea how far the car is lowered, look and guess
Camber is -2.25F -1.7R
Rear fenders were rolled up to the spot welds (1/2 the lip)
No cutting was needed in the front. They surprisingly went on without much of a fight and I didn't have to cut the spring buckets.
I haven't noticed anything rubbing on the inside. The car seems to turn lock to lock freely.
I'm not telling you all to go out and buy 8" wide rims though. As you can see, its an extremely tight fit, and the rims do hang out the sides a hair. I don't care as far as tracking the car goes. I'm gonna say the same for 225 mm tires. You do have to kind of finesse them into the car, they're probably not going to go without a fight (hence I rolled the fenders). My alignment is helping bigtime keeping the fenders safe BUT, you can't stuff a bunch of camber into the front end with camber bolts and expect this to work. I did it with plates, which keep the angle between the hub and the strut constant.
I've got a few miles on them, I'm still scrubbing them in and stuff, so no crazy **** and I won't really know the difference until I can get them out and beat the hell out of them (a few weeks).
Tissues and lotion are in the other room in case anyone feels the urge...
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Originally Posted by Boilermaker1
No its not. I don't need more body crap adding more weight to this fat pig.
nicehey what do you mean roll the fenders? are the tires that thick?
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Originally Posted by DDragon7
So how does it handle?
so no crazy **** and I won't really know the difference until I can get them out and beat the hell out of them (a few weeks).
damn that's pretty mean, just wonderin' you go Purdue or what? Cuz I see the SN and I was wonderin.
Originally Posted by isuzu5000
nice upgrade....so nomore orangish/redish wheels huh??
Originally Posted by Boilermaker1
No its not. I don't need more body crap adding more weight to this fat pig.
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Originally Posted by MajinB
just be happy you don't own a 3rd or 4th gen eclipse. or even a rustang. those are fat pigs man. nice
hey what do you mean roll the fenders? are the tires that thick?
nicehey what do you mean roll the fenders? are the tires that thick?
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Originally Posted by vacivic2005
it'd look way better than it does now. how much do you expect 10lbs of an oem lip kit to worsen your times?
Its a track car. Its 800 bucks worth of **** that I'm going to break at one point or another. I don't care about what it looks like, hence its a track car and not a show car. it doesn't add any function what so ever to the car, it weighs something which is all that really matters and it doesn't help the car's aero any noticable amount either.
Hence, its of little benefit, and its a lot of money that could be better off spent fixing the results of what breaks on the track.
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Rep Power: 425 I have about 50 miles on them and I don't drive during the week. You won't hear any judgements from me about them until I have a few thousand on them. First impression is that they're fairly smooth, but loud.
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Rep Power: 425 They're no worse than Azenis or MXs were. There's the typical directional tread hum, I'm just not used to it since I don't normally drive on summer tires.
Definitely turn up the radio and drown it out. I just had the radio off to listen for rubbing, so the tire noise was pretty prevalent.
Definitely turn up the radio and drown it out. I just had the radio off to listen for rubbing, so the tire noise was pretty prevalent.
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Boilermaker, how did you get 16x8's I have been looking for 16x8's and couldn't come across any and when I checked Enkei's site they don't show x8 until you get into a 17". Do they just not list them or are they special order?
