Just picked them up from the store today. I was worried the earthquake in Japan was gonna slow the shipment but good thing the ship left before it happened. Now I'm pondering whether I should have my dealer install them when I have my car serviced tomorrow or bring them to a professional tire shop to get them to do it..... any difference?







Oh, and the Japanese come up with the most hilarious pictures for their instuction booklets LOL I think the one where the wheel's getting curbed resembles my own facial expression when I did that to my stock rims lol

 

holy crap! nice wheels dude!!!

mind me asking how much???

 

Thanks! PMed you :D

 

whats your offsets?

 

They're +38s so I'm crossing my fingers...
I'm keeping stock 225 width so should help cut chances of rubbing....
They're 16lbs

 

Should look good once they're on your car. Remember to post some pics.

 

Wow... they should look great on ur car... should be expensive tho
What colors ur car? Ti or Black? Hopefully i'll see u around town w/ them installed. I'll honk or something if u see u.. hahah....

 

n/m to the color question... i just noticed ur info.... *feels stupid*

 

I'd definately go to an aftermarket tire place. someone with a really good rep.
I drove 2 hours to get mine tire swapped the last time (insides to outside, I have rather, umm, extreme camber settings). The local dealership here is good for most things, but they send all their tire work out to a local place, and I don't trust them.

And you shouldn't have any problems with rubbing, I don't imagine. I was running 265/35s on 42 offsets this summer with no problem.

 

nice wheels! do u mind telling me how much also and where u got them?

 

Hey...no dirty pictures!

 

LOL I thought you meant this one

SO I got them mounted today and first off, the major difference I felt was the ride. The pavement on broadway was full of manhole covers and badly patched over ashphalt, on the way there I remember the ride with stock wheels aren't harsh but it took a while for the suspension to settle (like bump, bump, and bounce, bounce before it settles). After I mounted the ce28s the ride was basically just "bump bump" and no bouncing or rebouding at all, the suspension jsut took the bumps and settled right back down.
I weighed the stock wheels with the tires off while the techs were mounting them and they were a whopping 23.5-24lbs each. So I shaved about 7.5-8lbs of weight off with the 16lb ce28s. That's a weight reduction of 1/3rd of the stock weight!
It might be because of the M reflash I got this morning or it could be the new wheels, but I noticed it was a lot easier to accelerate in midrange. The car also seem to take less slipping of the clutch to inch forward in rush hr traffic.
So far no rubbing at all, I tried lock to lock steering on an incline at my garage and so far so good!
Anyway, here are some pics with them mounted.

 

yea there's a shop that sells replicas of them (volk racing stuff seems to be like knockoff LV in the car world or something!)that are almost 20% of the real thing's price. But the replicas are cast, not forged and I hear that they're light as well but you'll bend them on the first pot hole.