Ok thanks! yea.... I've emailed the shop I ordered mine from to see if I can make any last minute changes (or if they can give me some sort of guarrentee on them...)... if not I MIGHT go with a set of Prodrives.... not sure...

 

If they can order you the +50, I would suggest it, if not, they will just need to roll your fenders. I didn't like the idea of rolling them though because of all the plastic etc, that sits on the inside of our car, and I didn't want them to cut the plastic (because you cant roll plastic) because it might have exposed the side marker.



The advantage of wider rims is that you can put wider tires. I have stuffed 275 rubber on my 8.5s. It was one tight fit though, and I probably wont use that wide of tires again unless I get all crazy and decide I want to do drag.

Slavearm

 

I just emailed Mackins Industries and they replied that it should not rub with +38 offset! Ok.... still crossing my fingers
I'm just keeping stock size 225 tires, maybe 235 since there's way more selection than with our 225/45 ratio... Plan to autocross about once a week with them!
thanks for all the info and help guys!!

 

So I finally get the CE28s with +38 offset and mounted them yesterday. Tried it out on the local mountain road and on the contrary, turn in actually IMPROVED! The on centre feel greatly improved and it felt a LOT more communitive than before! I like to drive my car too and I use the ce28s for autocross as well and so far NO RUBBING at all with stock tires. and all in all, the car DROVE BETTER than before with the stock wheels
So hmm... maybe you had different offsets?

 

Congrats! Now show us the photo!! :D

 

Thanks =)

Here they are:

 

I think all that open space between the spokes makes it look a lot smaller than it is (looks like a 17 or even 16inch??)

 

Here's some funny Japanese cartoon included in the instructions

 

I've been thinking of painting the calipers after I got these wheels since it shows itself more now. I was thinking maybe red? What do ppl think? Would red look too "ricer" with the red lug nuts?
Or maybe just subdued glossy black? flat black?

 

Look great with tit gray! The red lug nuts are also nice accent. Buy (red)Brembo for the front calipars.(if you are rich egnough) :p

 

what color are those?

 

^^ Looks Great by the way

 

I'm not :p

 

They are bronze (I think Dark Bronze? There's a bronze that's a shade lighter, or wait... maybe that's gold?)

 

WOW that looks awesome!!! Nice wheel choice!

 

Just found a advertisment for Volks in my REV SPEED RX-8 book I picked up... They recomend the following offsets by rim width for the RX-8...

7.5J +46 Front and Rear
8J +38 Front and Rear
8.5J +43 Front and Rear
9.0J +40 Rear only
9.5J +45 Rear only