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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 09:37 AM
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Good Quote.

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This involves several issues. The first being that you can't see beyond your own immediate needs and wants. This is not Wiki8Club. It took many of us years and years of involvement and reading to amass the knowledge.

Imagine somebody coming here daily, in fact it is often multiple people daily, asking if not demanding the same information over and over again. We are not your on demand servants. We are people just like you with other priorities and demands in our lives, limited time, our own personal interests for being here, etc. Why should we spend that time catering to people that come here seeking instant gratification?

That leaves us with two options. We can either ignore you completely or we can tell that the info is here if you bother to make the effort. However, over several years of telling people this you eventually get fed up dealing with the continuous stream of people seeking instant gratification yet you still would rather point them in the right direction so you just bark at them to get the point across. Imagine someone coming to your house, going to your living room, pulling their pants down, and taking a dump right there on the carpet just because they didn't know any better. You might be annoyed and yet also understanding because they didn't know any better. Now imagine this being a different person doing this every day. It wouldn't be long before you just as soon they go away and never come back.

Almost every day there is some clueless dolt posting a tech or troubleshooting question in the DiY area, despite there being a sticky thread at the top saying to only post threads there with DIY instructions and subsequent discussion of same. The real issue is that people think they are free to just come here and do as they damn well please and there's no need for etiquette, rules, structure, or organization unless it serves their own personal interest.

Well guess what? We're not here to cater to new uninformed people that come in here trampling all over everything regardless if they're ignorant, just don't care, or whatever. This is like any social community and so if you make waves you better expect to deal with it. If you don't like it then get the f' out because the established community could care less about some newbie whining about not getting what they want immediately. We do care about you clogging up the search engine with useless threads on already established subjects, which there is a dedicated thread on this very subject in this same forum area no less. It took me 10 minutes to explain this. Now imagine multiple people daily requiring it, so you make a Sticky thread at the top that says "read this first" and yet every single new person just like yourself thinks they are beyond trying to fit in properly so that this forum operates smoothly for all of us.

You probably don't read Japanese, but the line in my sig is a well known Japanese proverb that reads "the nail that sticks out gets hammered". You made yourself that nail.
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 12:35 PM
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So I read a series of article in the sticky of wheel weight/size.
Some say that +2 lbs wouldnt affect performance....

Is it right or should i stick to same/less weight

And talking of the weight difference i searched a bit on Google and found out that theres a range of 20 to 22 lbs. Is this right ?

Now i'll have to get a scale -_-

How does this apply to the RX8?:


I got my answer !
The stock wheels were manufactured at two different facilities they can weigh between 20-22 lbs.

The stock bolt pattern is 5x114.3. Wheels are 18" by 8" wide. Wider wheels can fit wider tires on them allowing for added traction.

A very popular racing wheel is the lightweight Enkei RPF-1 which is 18" by 9.5" wide and a lightweight 18lbs a wheel.

Each brand of wheel has different clearances and different "offsets." Knowing if a particular wheel will fit your car is dependent on the size of your wheel wells, and brake kit. There is no exact way to know if a wheel will fit if the person has no experience with the car or the wheels. Buyer beware when buying from inexperienced salespeople.

Care must be taken when selecting wheels, usually cheaper wheels are manufactured with inferior processes which makes them very prone to denting on road imperfections.

Some people buy wheels solely for looks and not performance. Typically upsizing a wheel (18" to 19", 20", etc) to a fancier variety adds a lot of mass. That gain in mass results in significantly lower performance.

Staggered wheels (making the rears wider than the front) may look cool, but the added traction on one part of the car has a massive negative effect on the handling of this car. Since our weight balance and steering is fairly neutral going staggered is a bad idea.

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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:05 PM
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Street driving just stick to low 20s. Track driving shoot for 18lbs.
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:09 PM
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^what he said
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by J8635621
Street driving just stick to low 20s. Track driving shoot for 18lbs.
If possible any suggestion on (Reasonably priced/Quality) 18 lbs ?
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:11 PM
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rpf1's
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Atilla
rpf1's
Thank you !

i've been looking mainly for Rpf1's
But I know a guy that knows a guy (And so on..) That sells Volks RE30 18''

What do you guys think about them ?

Also they are 18X8.5 +52
and 18x7.5 +50

Will this cause any trouble ?

I could get those for under a grand.

And heeeh, thanks, for helping a newb out ( Oh and i've looked on The will it fit thread(Not all of it !) and couldnt find similar as this or there was too much info for me to understand !




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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:45 PM
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No no no no no
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by J8635621
No no no no no
No as in dont touch that or no as in go for it ?
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:49 PM
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 01:52 PM
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yay for vague responses!
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Old Dec 17, 2011 | 06:28 PM
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If ur going to spend that kind of money already go with the RPF1
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Old Dec 17, 2011 | 07:15 PM
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Indeed.
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Old Dec 17, 2011 | 07:17 PM
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