alright, fellas.

tomorrow i'm going to be ordering some 17x10 fn01's, front and back.

what should i be prepared for? i'm planning on using a 275/40/17 tire.

what lug nuts do you guys use and where can you get them? i'd like to have some black ones.

i'm assuming i'm going to need a good roll in the back.

 

which offset are you going to be running? as for lugs, i use spline lugs since they were included with the wheels by the shop i bought them from and they seem to work. i am pretty sure i've seen them in black too.

 

i'd like to do 20 (or was it 25?), unless that's too extreme.

 

17x10 +25 is pretty extreme. That's .64 inches further out in the rear than most people go, and an inch more in the front.

 

alright, i'll stick with that.

i like how tanaka's wheels look, and i believe that's what he has.

for you guys with 17's.... how much did you have to lower to get it to look right?

 

17x10 +25 is great fitment.

 

is it going to make much of a difference between how much i have to roll between the 25 and 35?

i apologize for turning this into the will this fit thread... but, you know, $1000 is a lot of money to spend and i want to make sure i do this right.

 

Just so you know that it isn't +25.

 

also, where did you guys get yours, and how long did you wait for them?

i'm going to order them from fluid, but he's getting them from 5zigen from what i can tell. i'm just kind of nervous about having to wait months for them.

 

i got them from a local place here. they matched what i could find online so it made sense for me - plus fluid wasn't a vendor back then or i'd have considered going that route. i think i had to wait about 6 weeks for mine to come in.

 

hm. not too bad, i guess.

 

6 weeks give or take will give me some time to get some nice tires and suspension.

anyone wanna comment on lowering it?

 

Tanaka has 17x10 +35 in the rear with a 255/40 but you want 275/40 with a +25? Also, his fronts are 17x9 not 17x10. I wish you luck if you really buy those. The tires you want have .5" less wheel gap. That might create a problem with rubbing.

 

i'm leaning more towards 275/40 with a 35 offset now. still wanna go 17x10.

 

ok, after reading through this thread more, maybe i should stick with this:

front:

17x9 35 offset with 255/40 tire

rear:

17x10 35 offset with 275/40 tire and a fender roll

huh? huh?

 

You can run 17x10 +35 all around, it would look a LOT better. 275 is too much tire

or run a more aggressive setup like deedubs run 17x10+25 and run 255/40 instead of his /45 all around.

You'll clear easily with a roll/pull, and - camber

 

is 255 too much of a stretch considering how i drive the car?

the dragon is in my backyard. it's visited weekly. i can deal with the inconveniences of it (the car is driven once a week at most) but i just don't want it to affect the performance.

 

i guess i should also mention that i'm putting 615's on this car, which are a little wider than most tires of the same size anyway.

 

255 is fine.

 

i like the concave look of the wheels but it looks like from all the pictures i've seen I need to have a minimum 9.5" wheel width do even have a slightly noticeable concave look, is this true?

if i run a more aggressive offset with a 9.5" rim will that increase the concave-ness of the wheel?

or are wheel concave-ness based on rim width?

 

^The more aggressive your offset, the more concave you will have.

 

Some updated pics:

 

^ shiny! are you dropped?

 

some old pix of it..

 

depending on how low your dropped with 275's you will rub like crazy, you'll shred your sidewall to next week!