in a dilemma here. I have the money to buy light weight wheels (kosei or rpf01's), but all and all I think they are hideous looking.
Im a function over form guy and I just want to find out from people running lighter weight rims how the car feels, no one local runs anything but xxr rims. I would run wedsports if I could find a set for a decent price, but haven't run across any yet.
car is for road racing / some drag
going to be running 17x9/9.5 or 18x9/9.5 sized rims
was considering mb weapons/battles as a cheaper alternative and using the extra money on better brake pads.
looking at 16/17 lbs for the enkei/kosei for the 17x9
and ~22 lbs for the mb's
whos running light weight wheels
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The 17x 9 Enkei RP-F1s that im selling weigh in at 14.8 lbs but here is a place i found years ago
http://www.wheelweights.net/
http://www.wheelweights.net/
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thanks for posting the link, ran across that place along time ago, even have their spreadsheet on my desktop. they are missing some newer wheels though1993ka24det wrote:The 17x 9 Enkei RP-F1s that im selling weigh in at 14.8 lbs but here is a place i found years ago
http://www.wheelweights.net/
guess its all or nothing, will go for the lightweight wheels and see what kind of improvement I get from the car
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Just ranting? =)
the point of running lighter weight wheels is to make it go faster? its reduced rotational mass, the question is replace the wheels with something a similar weight as stock wheels but allow wider rubber or run lighter wheels for a higher premium to run wider rubber
either way it will allow the car to go faster =)
the point of running lighter weight wheels is to make it go faster? its reduced rotational mass, the question is replace the wheels with something a similar weight as stock wheels but allow wider rubber or run lighter wheels for a higher premium to run wider rubber
either way it will allow the car to go faster =)
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i never even knew about the 6ULR's, I really like the way those look. 52 offset though, those would be some huge spacers to run on a s13nissanfanatic wrote:RPF1s are pretty much the best bang for the buck wheel.
You can also look at FN01RCs or, if you can fit them, 6ULRs.
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I was running 95' cobra wheels on my car before. The 17X10.5s were 55lbs each with tires in the back.
I swapped them for the 03' machined cobra wheels with 255's in the rear and they dropped to 42lbs with tires, made a huge difference.
Lighter is wayyy better. If you can settle for 16's, the sportmax 002's are super light.
16lbs each:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/16x8-XXR ... ccessories
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/16x8-SPO ... ccessories
These are the 15's, the 16's look better
I swapped them for the 03' machined cobra wheels with 255's in the rear and they dropped to 42lbs with tires, made a huge difference.
Lighter is wayyy better. If you can settle for 16's, the sportmax 002's are super light.
16lbs each:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/16x8-XXR ... ccessories
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/16x8-SPO ... ccessories
These are the 15's, the 16's look better
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