Getting My Enkei's Widened And My Guards Pulled A Bit

[Bronx]

as stated, im getting my 3 piece enkei RS Evolutions Rebuilt, and the front 2 are getting new outer barrel.

color will be full matte black bolts will be gold

so on the front i will be sitting 17x9 and the rears will be 17x10

originally the 17x9 were on the rear and 17x8 on the front

so front getting an extra 2 inches and popping them straight onto the rear.

guards will be getting pulled by about 1-2cm to try and fit in the rims.

i will be hoping the rears will be sticking out an inch at least, and front will be nice and flush.

currently running 215 45 17's for the 9j rims and still tossing up on what i should run the 10j's on, its either going to be 225's or 235's

what would you guys suggest?

and all up incl tyres will cost me around the $900 mark

p.s these are the real enkei rs's not the fake ones.

they will go on my s2 stagea

[ClutchBurndout-:(]

satin black, dont go mat

[Bronx]

hmmmm, never thought about the satin, may actually invest in that, iva always had matte black, from my pc case to my older cars and car parts.

i shall see how much extra that may be.

[TM7GTR]

depending on how much you flare the guards, I would say go with the 235's on the 10j rears. My brother has gram lights 57 pro's 18x10 +12 all round on his s15 and the tyres are stretched, but not over the top stretched (it looks really good)

[TM7GTR]

depending on how much you flare the guards, I would say go with the 235's on the 10j rears. My brother has gram lights 57 pro's 18x10 +12 all round on his s15 and the tyres are stretched, but not over the top stretched (it looks really good)

few pics (from his phone so apologise for quality/size)

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[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

just to be sure... have you checked caliper clearance before you do this?

[Beer Baron]

changing the outer lip on 3 piece wheels wont change caliper clearance at all.

[GUN_METAL_GTR32]

definately go satin black.... my te37's r satin and they r awesome lol.

ill get some pics soon, cars a lil broken in the garage atm

also i run 245's or 255s on the rear of mine and 235's up front and thats on 9.5's all around.

Edited November 10, 2010 by GUN_METAL_GTR32

[blags]

Will the offset change? what offset you going to?

[Bronx]

hmmm, those gold ones tm7gtr posted up, are close to the same dish as mine, pretty nice, i guess ill go with 235, seems to be a nice stretch. will be getting the cheap crap tyres though, kumho ecstas k31 i think they were, they are very soft and burn rubber really fast. but therefore grip is superb.

dont know if the offset will be changed, since its still the same distance from the inner dish as before.

Edited November 10, 2010 by Bronx

[Basti]

offset will change (for the better) as the midpoint of the wheel width will move outward roughly half of the increase in width overall while the hub stays stationary. brake clearance will stay the same

[Bronx]

oh yeah, ive never really gotten the whole offset thing really, but either way, i still need the spacers to clear my suspension but only on the rear.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

changing the outer lip on 3 piece wheels wont change caliper clearance at all.

yeah, i get that lol

was more asking just incase he had different faces on the fronts and rears.

my first set of professors couldn't be swapped due to differing faces.

[krayzie32]

oh yeah, ive never really gotten the whole offset thing really, but either way, i still need the spacers to clear my suspension but only on the rear.

did you need spacer before getting them widened... If not, i suggest putt the outer rim that is currently on the rear on front and putting new widened lip on the rear...

Double handling you say, well think about it...

You wont need to add spacers as the inner rims and wheel faces will remain the same just widening front and rear outer rims only...

Most staggered sets of wheels have different inner wheel widths and different brake clearances on front and rear faces for brake clearance.

And yes offsets will change and because your widening they will go from a high offset to a lower offset as you are increasing the outer rim width and by doing that changing distance from centreline to hubmount plane.

offset is the difference between the hubmounting surface (plane) with respect to the midpoint (centreline) of the wheel width centre.

+ve offset if its closer to the outer ie less dish or sit under guard

-ve offset if its closer to the inner ie more dish or closer to body or sit outside guard

anyway this pic should explain

[krayzie32]

Also if you domt mind me asking, whos spinning up these new barrels (outer rims) for ya...

I can only think of 2 mobs,

one ive dealt perfectly with, the other is a c*%^ that just doesnt wanna do odd jobs such as widening

paid him 50% pf his quote, he said 4wks then pay balance on pickup

only 14wks later i had to force them to give my wheels & money back cos he hadnt even started yet...

PM me as the above was at least 3.5-4.5yrs ago

and i need to go down this path again with 2 other sets of wheels...

[Basti]

stuff

this man knows

[Bronx]

ah, thx for all the feedback, info and pics. greatly appreciated

[Zorro]

Is your stag awd or rwd?

[ARTZ]

satin black, dont go mat

+1

[battery]

how much does this cost?

is it possible to calculate the new offset? say you have some 17x9 +20 and you get then widened to a 17x10 what will the new offset be?