im planning on purchasing 19" rims - Volk - Silver Mercury TE37's with Yokohama parada spec2s... will look good on a rx8

 

for all those getting aftermarket wheels, expecially cali residents that don't need snow wheels, keep my name handy if you want to get rid of your stock 18"

 

will a 18x8.5 wheel with 50mm offset rub? hmm....

 

depending on what you plan to do with the car, i would look into getting different tires for the 8. the Spec 2s are better than the previous version, but it will not provide the proper grip in both wet and dry.

you don't wanna sacrifice the great handling that comes with the car with the wrong tire. don't ask me how i know....


santino

 

good choice with the Volk wheels though! light and strong wheels.

santino

 

volk racing wheels is excellent, they use them on a lot of the high end vehicles that are compete in the Japanese circuit. they are expensive but high quality. only problem with going 19" and larger is that the tires are expensive, in limited selection, and wear out fairly fast. Personally as far as tires go, I have little experience with riding on different tires, but I do know you get what you pay for. I currently have 215/35/19 Pirelli P7000s and would DEFINATELY reconmend them or get them again. Run flat technology is awesome - got a flat at school and it was fine to drive on for like 2 days without damaging the rim. at 10 psi it was fine. incredible tire technology and research is behind pirelli tires - that is why they use it in the WRC. also p7000 provides excellent traction in wet, and dry conditions. excellent tires.

as far as rims go, I really dont care if they are light or whatever, its all about the look. I am an artist so its my thing to like beautiful objects HRE wheels are custom forged to the customers' specifications and painted, etc. with meticulous care and quality. they are light also, but extremely beautiful and even the finest automobiles require the finest rims, HRE. for $1000+ a rim without tires... they better be!


check out my photoshopped pics of HRE wheels and Racing Harts on the 8, in the other aftermarket rim thread.

 

Advan SA-90's



Bronze on blue is hot!

 

those Advans are classy. those would look especially nice on the Winning Blue. or on my blue miata too.

LightEmUp, in the words of Ferris Bueller..."it is sooo choice"

santino

 

looks like you and i are the only one be running the GT1's :D

i've love those rim forever

 

Advan Racing for me... :D

 

 

http://www.bbs-japan.co.jp/pro/pro_i.html



BBS RG-R DBK
19×9 38mm offset 5/114.3 9.5kg

According to http://toy4two.home.mindspring.com/offset.html
The clearance from stut housing to the inside of the wheel will be 1mm LESS
The outside edge of the wheel will EXTEND an extra 25mm

 

...yes, i must reiterate my previous statements (in other threads like this) and go with dan on the BBSes.

 

This is not a photoshopped pic....I found this pic of an RX-8 with deep dish rims from a Japan website....

 

Wow, the factory "polished" rims look really nice. How much more do they weigh over the standard stock rims? Anybody, bueller, bueller?

Also, is that a lower profile (height) tire?

 

Voodoo: that's not the stock rims... its an aftemarket... hope that helps...

 

no I believe the chrome picture on the red rx8 is stock chrome option rims that are available in japan. They look similar to ZAUBER wheels - specifically the "Gettin" Model in chrome

 

So what is the difference between the rims shown in the picture above and the what is stated as "polished 18' rimes" in the Dealers Accessorie Brochure?

Are you saying are three type of stock rims for the 8.

Standard Rims
Polished Rims
And what you call "Chrome" in the picture above, which you say is only available in Japan?

Anybody have a picture of the "polished rims" we can buy or is it the same thing as what is shown in the picture?

Thanks!

 

no polished and chrome are the same. in japan they may call it different

 

So, the RX-8 technical highlights CD says you can not use aftermarket wheels because of the Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensors. If you do, the TPMS will be in constant alert. And yes, I have seen the picutures of other rims on the Japanese cars. But I believe someone pointed out they do not have TPMS.

 

damn... you sure about that?!?! from that pix, the red rx8 has a 19 inch or something... definitley not 18''! and i dont see any mazda sign on the wheel either... can you comfirm this??

 

guys ive just ordered the Mazdaspeed kit and desperately want these alloys so i can get it all fitted at the same time. Could someone plz tell me what they r.....im assuming racing hart????

 

damn...that's some nice stuff. IT's too hard to tell what kind of rims is dat...since the angle is hard to tell as well as there are many distributor out there making the same kind of rims.

 

Are those rims 19' or 20', very nice..

 

Guys i just found out they're RacingHart CX 19"

These wheels havnt been officially released yet. The RX-8 pic was used as a teaser to drum up interest in whether or not they'd b manfucatured.

I hope they will b released asap. They suit the silver RX8 perfectly!