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Old 03-21-2007, 02:49 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Oh one other thing... theres no chance in hell you could fit 19s on your car with a wide body kit unless you stick with skinny tires. Say you put a 215/35/19 tire on there now...the 35series is 35% of 215mm. So once you get a wide body kit you'll wanna fit 245/35/19 tires...now its 35% of 245. Good luck fitting that. I'm gonna have a really hard time getting 255/40/17 tires (note the 40% sidewall is pretty corrent) and your tires are still much taller. I'm redoing the fenders/body completly so its not a matter of just doing that.

For a wide body kit your best tire choice is 245/35/17 but theres only ONE tire in that size. I just check the 19" for the first time and there is a couple 255/30/19 which will be your best bet...but still a big pain the try to fit. Thats basicly the same size as I'm trying to fit (255/40/17) and I can tell you it'll be hard. For an example on how much the wide of the tire effects sidewall heith my 255/40/17 tire has about the same heith sidewall (keep in mind its 17" too) as my 215/45/16.
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Old 03-21-2007, 10:25 PM   #12 (permalink)
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its kool. im kinda starting to turn away from them to i kinda photoshopped them on it today and didnt like them so much, so ill prolly just sell them and get some 18s. aside from the fact you`re right about performance considering im gonna go turbo with it after i hit about 6k miles. i guess im just used to my old z24 still where even with the 19s the turbo made up for alot and then some.
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Old 03-21-2007, 10:32 PM   #13 (permalink)
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o and whats up with this r34 kit? you`ve sparked my interest. do you have any pics? cause i may be interested in that, i like the evofusion kit but it seems like everybodys gonna have it considerin its one of the only 2 i could dig up.
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WHOA! KINK! CALM DOWN BUDDY!

HAHA! you found his button!

i Just got 17s on mine and my buddy has 18s... 18 loos almost too much already... here is a good comparison...



NOOOO RUBBER ON 18s!!!!!! 19z HA! might as well just start wrapping rubber bands on the rim! HAHA
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o and whats up with this r34 kit? you`ve sparked my interest. do you have any pics? cause i may be interested in that, i like the evofusion kit but it seems like everybodys gonna have it considerin its one of the only 2 i could dig up.
Yeah look up the post, I haven't an idea what happened to it and I don't have the pics on this computer.

I think it'll only fit the reno and you'll have to have some custom work done yourself. I'm only selling one, and price is probably 2k. It'd come with a front bumper, front fenders, side skirts, and a rear bumper. All of it would be bolt on except you'd need to have fender flares that I could provide molded into the rear top fender and door. If you take a look at the cars rear fender you'll understand.
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First off guys to clear something up 18s will never rub if you have the right offset/width. They are the same overall size with tires as 17s/16/15/14s, if you get the right tires. 18s on our car will use a 35 tire, 17s=40, 16s=45, ect...unless the width is about as skinny as stock or wider than 235mm.

19" will fit fine if you can find a 30 series tire, dont know if they have any in that size. If you put a 185/35/19 or skinnyier on there that will fit okay...or even a 195mm tire should fit okay.

But my question is why the hell would you want 19" wheels on a forenza/reno? It's going to look like crap, KILL any performance you might have had, kill ride quality, and kill your speedo (unless you put extreamly skinny tires on there or find a 30series tire that fits 19").

Also you converting to a 5lug in all the wrong ways. Adaptors/spacers like that are really dangerous and I doubt your wheel studs will last long like that. I can help you out here if you wait. I bought an extra set of hubs on all four corners that I'm having convertied to 5x114.3 lug...once I put those on and see if my current 5lug track wheels fit I'm going to order a set of street wheels...Once i get those I can have my stock hubs converted to 5 lug and sell them to you for time/cost. It's the safe way to do it. Also doing spacer/adaptors adding allot of uneccasary weight.

But on a side note I'm sure people have put 19" on...I know several people that have tried. I know one forenza with 20" wheels on it...needless to say it looks like crap. Though some people like the raised 20" wheel look. Please say you're goign to get a big brak kit too, its just a pet-peeve of mine but with 19" wheels you won't even be able to see the stock brakes, hell they won't work worth crap with such big wheels. All you'll see through the wheels is the ugly wheel liner. blah.

Also how wide are your 19s? cuz either your going to have to space them out furthur (which will look strange) or just get wider wheels once you have the wide body kit. But hey, I'm having a wide body kit made for my car and I wanna sell one other one to offset my cost if your intrested. It's an R34 kit. Sorry I'm bashing so much, I just hate the idea of anything bigger than 18" wheels on our car.
I'm with you on that one, I just don't think anything taller than 17 or 18 will look good either.

But hey to each his own,

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I'm with you on that one, I just don't think anything taller than 17 or 18 will look good either.

But hey to each his own,

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This discussion gets old. It's all a matter of opinion. No I wouldn't put 19's with adapters just crappy, but i would put 19's if they fit right. Fact is i have 20's on my 07 forenza. looks good to me, i've gotten compliments, and i've even gotten flack for it from suzukiphiles. It's all up to the driver.
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