You forgot fender flares on your wide body car option, duh.....
Nice. But no.
Make custom hubs that pull the wheels inboard slightly. Build new big brake kit with custom brackets to fit.
Ugg... That's a lot of work. If I end up with custom hubs, it'll be in back, not up front if I can help it.
Well here's the wheel status...
Good news first! Been driving the RX7 a LOT. It's been about splitting time vs. the Jeep as a daily. Makes me happy to walk out to this in the parking lot.
Bad news, my old Yokohama AD08s (circa 2010) got hard. Way hard. I’m sideways in any corner with even marginally aggressive throttle. Then I locked them up on the freeway braking down from a friendly blast with a Hellcat, so now I have a minor flat spot to boot. Sucks that I never managed to wear the tread out. I really need to find a local drift school and just burn these off.
In the meantime, I started looking at tires. And taking measurements. And then looking at wheels. I dig my Wedsports a lot. I still think TC-105N’s are one of the best wheels ever. I don’t know why more folks don’t run them. In an 18x10.5 they were 1.5 lbs lighter than RPF1s, plenty strong (rolled barrel if not fully forged), classic killer looks, not terrible on the cost front. Downside: they only go to 10.5” and 295 was as wide as I was willing to go on that.
So I went wheel hunting and ended up coming to the same conclusion several others have for properly wide wheels. Forgestar F14s. I figured if I was going to do this, and frankly wanted to help other Ronin widebody users maximize their wheelwells, too… that meant I should do it all the way.
Plus I really dig gold wheels on white cars…
What I picked (note this will NOT be my final recommendation for others!)
Nitto NT01s 315/30r18 front, 335/30r18 rears
Forgestar F14 18x11-6 front, 18x12+6 rear (deepest offsets they offer)
Tires came in first. Damn these things are wide. Blocked about my whole aisle (albeit the garage isn't large)
Kids had fun. Always wanted these shots.
Mimicked my wheel specs off something Akina ran. I ordered these back on Black Friday 2017. Instead of the 7-8 weeks quoted they took 5 months to come in. Equally tall stack of wheels as rubber.
Forgestar had an issue with a gen 1 version the F14 that a dude managed to break on track (admittedly using the curbs heavily over several events). They widened the spokes’ cross section and tied them more fully into the barrel so that’s no longer an issue.
Rubber mounted:
I wanted to run a nice valve stem and found these super shorties on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N2WM4LK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 If your valve stem lives in a recess it might not work as a few folks couldn’t tighten the nuts. Worked out fine for me though.
Same pattern as the Jeep. I was kinda tempted to bolt them up.
Wider than 33s x 12.5s
Snapped a hover car pic in anticipation of saying goodbye to some old friends. May have been premature, but we'll see.
Tall stack of rubber, meet taller stack of rubber.
Rear with an 1/8" spacer clears the trailing arm by a couple mm. I can torch or ding in the arm locally if needed to gain a few more. The rears look great.
Up front clears the spring. I wasn't planning on clearing the spring. Honestly, I probably need to measure these wheels to see if I got the spec I ordered. This is about the same clearance I had before and I was expecting to be 8 mm tighter.
The plan was to run a 6" coil to move the perch above the tire and let me run that much closer.
Look is going to take some getting used to.
Rears are good. Might actually jump up to a 1/4" worth of spacer. Studs are plenty long.
But here's the rub (literally)
Rule for comparison. Slight poke confirmed, not what I wanted.
Still open to ideas. Mostly rolling it around for now.
