Vote Which Wheel for me?

[petrified.rabbit]

Rabbit, I have a question. Is your objection, looks, mechanical or both for wheels that are drilled for two different hole spacings?

somewhat for looks, if you get rims in the right size, style etc that really flow with the car, single pattern wheel look like they belong like it might have came that way from the factory.. OEM+ style.

But i have seen some wheels shatter around the bolt pattern with so many holes in them, mostly the dual 5 lugs. thats why the hubs are so thick anymore and you have to use the small special lugs. just to have enough "meat" in the rim to keep it from breaking.

i know all the cheaper wheels are typically dual drilled, but often you can find them in a single drill original (as all cheap wheels are copies of something else) for not much more, and it will give a cleaner look, and be a better quality rim..

but if your drifting, racing or anything else i know price matters, because when you smack the back wheel off a curb and break it when your sliding sideways through a turn, you want replacement wheels to be a cheap as possible.. and typically have a set (or two) sitting idle in the staging area.

[petrified.rabbit]

My BBS rims were originally from a mazda miata so they were dedicated 4x100 drilled holes. I don't know if they were stock or aftermarket I just know what I was told by the guy that sold em' to me and that they would have fit my honda but not my aveo.

they are all 4x100, but the hub bore on a miata is 54.1? isn't a honda 56.1 just like a mini? an aveo is 56.6 and a vw is 57.1.. so if you bore out the rim (common) then you could run any of these..

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I got some additional info on the Motegi FF7 wheels. Even though the wheel has a hub cap thingy, the wheel supports both 4x100 and 4x4.5 bolt patterns.



Also I not sure if I had mentioned this or not, I am going with 16x7 and that looks like the best compromise between ride quality and performance.

[daug1502]

All I know is they would fit on my honda, the bore didn't was close enough I guess.

[petrified.rabbit]

if you were going the cheapest route..

for $302 shipped you could get these from discount tire direct:


then tires i assume a 205/45r16 is what you decided (too big for me:P )

achilles atr sports are $265 shipped off ebay. decent tire for the price, better than some much more expensive tires..

that could be @ $625 installed..

[redrob]

I prefer the mAxXim wheel better than the other for simple reasons like the no hub center thing(freakin theives jack those alot here) and idoesnt have those rivet looking things either. also the simple design of a six spoke vs the other wheel and as was pointed out you can possiblly paint the lip of the wheel to match the car and makem even more custom/unique. Just my.02 and good luck with whatever wheel you choose.

[thehunterooo]

im a hater apparently

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im a hater apparently

You are my HERO for taking the Hater's option. If we only had Z34 we could have two haters, sniff. I suspect I am going to vote for the apathetic option as I was too wussy for not making up my own mind....

[MetroMPG]

Voted apathetic on appearance. They're really similar.

I'm a weight weenie though: whichever is lighter (all else being equal) would get my nod.

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I'm a weight weenie though: whichever is lighter (all else being equal) would get my nod.

I am having a hard time finding weight specs. If I go to the manufacture's website, I get nothing. You would think that they would have numbers for their wheels.