Thoughts on these wheels (photoshop inside)

[Wahoo]

cool doode!

[boardjnky4]

damn those wheels are sexy

[TrueBlue]

Gonna put a shit-ton of “Qs” in the siqqqqq. :tspry:

[Mike93]

I’m liking! Looking forward to seeing how they look on the car:tup:

[smokeyV]

right on! i see a tad bit of stretch there. sorry if i missed it, but what size tire and what size rim?

[newman]

17X8 ET32 w/ 205/40/17
18X9.5ET37 w/ 235/40/18

[66impalass]

Fuck… I actually like them, plus the have 5x120 19x9.5… just wish the ET was closer to 30…

[bing]

im getting red X’s… step up your game

[newman]

@bing

im getting red X’s… step up your game

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oh burn.

i see them now… what wheels are they exactly? Works?

[seth13]

those look good man. i thought the test fit on the Kais looked really good but after seeing these im liking them. whats the ETA on the hub conversion?

[newman]

Got my hubs today.

Hopefully will have these on for carlisle…

[LUKE_L]

What so bad about 5zigen? I never heard anything bad about them.

I <3 my FN01s

[cougarspeed]

@LUKE_L

What so bad about 5zigen? I never heard anything bad about them.

I <3 my FN01s

Nothing by lame he means they are not a brand that everyone will hump your leg over owning. I <3 my FN01’s as well. I actually really like these ones Newman grabbed and have never seen them before either.

[tpgsr]

@bing

im getting red X’s… step up your game

@newman

I host on onyxsyndicate.com

@bing

oh burn.

i see them now… what wheels are they exactly? Works?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That was some good entertainment for me.

I think these will look real good on the car. I will drive by one day once they are on and see how they look.

[ultradriver10000]

@cougarspeed

Nothing by lame he means they are not a brand that everyone will hump your leg over owning. I <3 my FN01’s as well. I actually really like these ones Newman grabbed and have never seen them before either.

I see them on 240s here all the time. They look good though.

[newman]

@xnewmanx

here’s my post from the lotus boards:

I was trying to find wheels for my car for a while… 4X100 kinda stink for aggressive fitments. Not a lot of lotus guys are interested in running super aggressive fitments, so that’s not really an issue…

Regardless, I wanted a more aggressive fitment, so I decided to change to a more common bolt pattern: 5x114.3 (4.5"). Initially I thought I could do this with off the shelf skf parts… this is not the case, it is also not the case that hubs from us cars will fit… I have a few friends in the “auto parts industry” that allowed me to test fitment on a variety of USDM hubs… no dice…

It is known, however, that opel 5x110 hubs DO fit the lotus, abs/traction control compatible… but 5x110? EW, another lousy bolt pattern, but since I’ve got some talent and vast resources at my disposal, I decide to order them anyway…

Getting the hubs is not cheap, it cost nearly 200 dollars just to ship them (i’m working on reducing this cost right now).

Once I had the hubs and had confirmed that they do indeed it was time to convert them to 5x114.3, so i threw em up on my mill:

Since the studs I was planning on using had a 9/16 (14.3mm) knurl diameter and the bolt circle was only changing 2.15mm per side, the holes for the studs virtually blew away the old holes… (only the tiniest bit of thread was still visible in the redrilled holes)

[the math on this works out like this:
radius to inside limit of original threaded hole = 110mm/2 - 12mm/2 = 49
radius to inside limit of new stud hole = 114.3mm/2 - 14.3mm/2 = 50
Difference = 1mm]

Regarding brake rotors… right now I’m running redrilled/rebored stock rotors… this is obviously not the optimal solution, but it’s gonna get me by for now… I’m working on sourcing some new rear rotors, the fronts are easy, I can simply machine new hats…

Wheels:
Since I knew my wheel fitment was going to require aggressive camber, I machined the front and rear hub uprights to allow more camber than the shim adjusters would allow.

I REALIZE THIS MAY NOT BE SOME PEOPLE’S CUP OF TEA, FITMENT, CAMBER, STRETCH, SIZE, ETC…

But I like it.

I’m running 5zigen proracer +520 in the following sizes

17X8.0JJ ET+19 w/ a 205/40/17 Azenis 615K
and
18x9.5JJ ET+24 w/ a 235/40/18 Azenis 615K

I’m think I could have actually ran a 17x9 in the front, which would have had substantially more concave, but hindsight is 20/20… at some point I may try to change to that size. I have NO RUB on this setup.

However, in order to achieve that “no rub”, I needed to add camber, a lot of camber, much more than it I’d get by removing the shims, the solution? Machine the hub uprights:

So anyway, here’s how my car looks now:

Cool.

-ctn

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[MaximaSE98]

nice work as always CTN

[MPD47]

Fantastic job to get that to work. Rear needs to come down and get a touch bit more camber though IMO.

[XwalkerX]

stretched tyres!!!