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Ravenoak

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in Classic & Vintage (1950's-1980's)

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I've got work Ewing's on mine... are thy the same as yours cause mine fit perfectly. I thought that were going to scrub something cronice before i lowered it, but independant suspention is a beautiful thing.. can't fit a finger between the tire and arch in the rear, sitting on custom Kings

GT-Ps are nice! I was looking at buying a set for my coupe back in the day, but they aren't cheap. My other choice was the Volk GT-U (mesh type) but they aren't available in 4x114.3.

All this trash talk about Watanabes is making me a bit iffy about buying a set of F8s from Japan, but I guess they're 100x more popular in Oz than here in NZ :woot: The last time I saw a set of 'em on any car would have been a good 18 months ago, and they were on some random 1980s Civic (go figure)...

Just out of interest what offset and width are you folks running on your R30s? The whole reason I'm getting the Watanabes shipped over is because the Work Ewing rims on my sedan seem to have the completely wrong values on the rear (15x8.0+24), and as a result they stick out from the guards by at least 20mm. Also, finding decent tyres to fit 15x8 rims proved to be the ultimate headache - I ended up stretching some 215s on, which was borderline when it came to warrant of fitness time.

Typical that I couldn't find any SSR reverse mesh rims when I was looking - now that the F8s are on their way, a whole slew of 15" SSRs have suddenly appeared on Yahoo Auctions Japan at bargain prices :O

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