new running shoes and rims

check the links..pics don't work

 

nice choice in rims, now get some wheel cleaner and shine those babies up

 

245/45/17???

How the heck did you get those to fit? Any rubbing? What offset are the rims?

 

oh nice...I like...especially the illusion of dirt...lol!

 

Nice never a fan of chromes though what tire sizes are the limit for our cars? i got a 235/40/18 and its actually rubbing the top in sharp turns ><

 

real dirt...COOL! lol...I like those rims tho. I'm leaning towards the new 350z rims or the BMW rims...the concave ones...

 

thats awsome for that price, i'm wanting to hit about 1g total for what i'm lookin at

 

lol i got yokohama tires then again the fact that the wheels are 18x8s with 36 offset does'nt help pretty fked right now changing everything will cost a lot

 

those look nice.

 

actually... those wheels are smaller then the stock...

stock - 215/45/18 or 205/60/16

both come out to a diameter of 25.6 inches...

ur tires - 245/40/17

come out to a diameter of 24.7 inches...

so, it's actually 1 inch smaller, so of course it's gonna fit and not gonna have any rubbing

just a side note, cuz ur tires are smaller, ur speedometer is gonna read faster then ur actualy going... when your speedometer says ur going 60 mph, ur gonna actually be going 57.9 mph

just thought i'd let u know ^_^

 

do you know what the new rims weigh? If i remember right our stockies with no tire were about 23-25 lbs a rim

 

no, it's like i originally said, ur going to be going slower then ur speedometer says... time for some math...

Stock -
Diameter 25.6 inches
Circumfrence (2*pi*r) = 80.384 in = .00126868 miles/revolution

Ur Tires -
Diameter 24.7 inches
Circumfrence (2*pi*r) = 77.558 in = .00122408 miles/revolution



now lets say your going at a speed where your tires are turning at rate of 47293.25 revolutions per hour (i chose that number for a reason, i'll get to it in a sec)

that means with your stock tires you are going...

47293.25 rev/hr * .00126868 mi/rev = 60.0000 miles/hr

that is excatly what your speedometer is going to read, 60miles/hr

now... with your tires going at the same exact revolutions per hour in which your speedometer is going to read 60 mph... you will be ACTUALLY going...

47293.25 rev/her * .00122408 mi/rev = 57.8907 miles/hr


this basically proves what i said above.. you will be going SLOWER then what your speedometer says, not the other way around


btw, another side note... this does NOT mean you will be going 2.1 mph slower all the time, it actually goes by a percentage... that percantage being your going 57.8907)60 = 96.4845%....

for example:

if your going like before 60mph... u'll actually be going
60 * .964845 = 57.8907 mph

80 mph
80*.964845 = 77.1876 mph (a 2.8124 mph difference)

so you will always be going 3.5155% slower then your speedometer says...



hope u enjoyed the math lesson in geometry and conversions ^_^

 

jw, is that for the DE or the ES/GTS rims... cuz the DE has steelies where as the ES/GTS have aluminum alloy rims...

 

i believe i read it was for the GTS rims because someone had actually bought a new rim-set and weighed the GTS stockies for comparison.

you're correct though. the trims have different wheels so it's accurate to say my weight estimation does not include the DE or ES.