Well they should be here in a few weeks...

 

Those wheels should look great on that car...did you ever get the stock wheel studs weighed?

 

Will post the weight tonight, have the scale there...

 

Congratulations! I love that wheel.

I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish i wish tonight.....

 

cortc, where did you get those wheels? I love SSR stuff, lightwieght and strong.

 

don't care for the rivets, but those are sweet.

 

Are you getting those for your car? What will you do with the Hiros?

 

i suppose you gotta have the rivets if you want three piece wheels...and who doesn't want three piece wheels? :D and ranger, if you check the parts for sale forum, you'll see that cortc has offered the Hiros up for a pretty good price...of course, they might be taken already...

 

here's another pic of a member with the ssr professors (fronts) https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...chmentid=18394

 

The stock lugs are 2.1oz each, the new titanium ones are .96oz each...

Yes the SSRs are 3 piece, you can actually get three piece wheels with hidden bolts HRE makes some but they are really expensive and HREs are not that light...

The hiros are for sale...

 

There is a post...

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=35644

You can have the wheels for 1,250 + 50 for shipping and I can get you a set of tires for 596.00 + 50 for shipping...

 

Good choice, I like them better than the gunmetal hiros.

 

I saw three pairs of these at a car show in cali today

 

Well, they are very good wheels; some specs:

Front (19x8.5 47mm Offset 34mm Lip) 20.5lbs
Rear (19x9.5 55mm Offset 59mm Lip) 21.5lbs

Tires will be Hankook Ventus K104s 235/35-19 and 265/30-19 f/r

TPMS should work...

 

congrats... those are actually my current favorites, I cannot I'm not jealous... so i'll just say this... I'm JealouS!!!!!!!!!

BTW how much did they set you back?

 

Those wheels are pretty damn cool, but I can't imagine them on an RX-8. To each his own.

 

I almost bought professors actually i did but the guy i bought them from lied about stock.I wanted the hyper silver.I actually just ordered them again for my 7 since it wont be running till next year i can wait 10 weeks.

 

Yes, mine were special order as well, they are coming from Japan...

 

They cost me 2,650.00 delivered, and should be here by the end of September... The car is now sitting on jack stands in the garage as I sold the Axis hiros...

 

Yummy. SSR wheels are one of my faves.

cortc, you have the wheel setup that I want, minus the tire aspect ratio. Aren't they a little bit too low-profile?

 

Well they are 19s, and yes they have a slightly smaller rolling diameter but not enough to be a problem... The stock is 25.9 and the 235/35 & 265/30s are 25.4, that is 820 vs. 804 Revolutions-Per-Mile respectively...

 

Oops. I didn't see the 19" in your sig. My setup is similar, but using 18" ADVAN RG's. I need money.

 

Well the ship leaves Japan today for the US and my wheels are loaded on it in a container... It should be another 3 weeks till I get them... That wait is killing me...

 

Do you think the wider tires in back will negatively impact handling? There was an article about the JIC car, and they had some problems running wider rear tires.

jds