Will 18 by 8.5 inch wheels fit???

 

no, u need to roll em fenders

 

Well darn. What about 8 inch wide?

 

yes that'll fit but u need a camber kit

 

Where can I get one of those? The one from the dealer doesn't adjust enough, only .3 degrees.

 

just get 8.5 front and 9.5 rear will look much better. and roll them fenders. u will be happy

 

8.5F 9.5R doesn't look that great in my opinion. It's too flush w/ the body. And if your car is lowered, you're going to have to roll A LOT.

 

Yeah, I think I just want 7.5 inch all the way around. Then I can still rotate tires and what not.

 

7.5 for the rear will look too "in". You might want to consider 8.5 or a bit higher. 7.5 is fine for the front though...

 

I have 7.5 in the rear right now and it fills it quite nicely. I definately don't want staggerd rim sizes.

 

Go for 8 inch all around...

 

We'll see.

 

18 x 8.5 with 35mm offset will definitely fit all around, no fender rolling necessary. It all depends on your tire size as well as the offset of the rims. I have 225/40/18 and no problems with rubbing at all. The car is sitting on stock sports suspension. Not lowered yet.


Dave

 

yea 8.5 will fit if ur car is NOT lowered. my is lwowered with 8.5 ET 35. 225/40/18

MASSIVE rubbing i rubbed most of the paint off already. before i rolled it

 

That's because you are one crazy driver... I have heard the racing stories about your C280 against a C43 and a twin turbo C280...


Dave

 

Hmm, I can imagine how that ended....

 

cut and pasted from bnzsport.com

http://www.bnzsport.com/forums/showt...p?threadid=415

by all mighty MBenzNL


The last evening I was in the states I have had some pizzas together with several benzusiastics and after pizza I lead the way in a C43 towards the highway 101 to get back "home" again. I was followed by a bi turbo-d C280 and a tp-stickered regular C280.
Once I drove onto the onramp, I floored the C43 whilst enjoying the acceleration and the longlasting curve onto the highway...once I reached the highway, I eased off the gas and drove further at socail speeds....RRRROOOOAAARRRR is what I heard when the bi turbo-d C280 passed me at highspeed at my rightside. Someone in the back of the C43 said hey, get him! so I figured I might as well do what the owner of the car told me to .
I have been tailling that C280 bi turbo for quiet a while while we were passing cars left and right all over the 101 and we reached speeds up to 210 km/h (130mph) which was more like the regular cruising speed then the absolute max peak.
A fair number of cars flashed at us (which I surely could understood after they were passed at both sides by two Asocial benzes) and it was entertaining to see how those flashers were flashed at by the third and slowest C280 who/which SURPRISINGLY did VERY well in keeping up with the mighty powered C-brothers!

After we got off the 101 (with that third C280 at my rear bumper...he must have been doing some very crazy overtaking actions) I noticed every single one (6 persons in total) had an extreme grin on their face...man...that WAS fun!
I was glas I could hand over the key and got back to my C250DIESEL again...a C43 will kill me for sure!

...we have to do that again sometime ; tp...amazing!!!

greetingz,

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sparcus reply



why yes... i was in the "saftey car" tp's ride monitoring the whole "race". that was one of the best runs ive seen yet! tp's car maxed out at 134mph wouldnt push no more. The light rain sounded like little rocks hitting hte windsheild hard! Oh how i wish i had the video camera!

As we passed car after car... we passed a rice rocket.. bright yellow integra.. the older school ones. It saw whtie c and a silver c pass it fast.... as soon as it saw them apss at high speeds it wanted to join! so it merged out right infront of us! we were like wtf!!!! we were going so fast and he made us brake!!! then he tried.. btu that hting had no power so after 2 seconds of trying he backed off and we passed him.

It sure was fun to watch ppl highbeam steve and ian... lol. As thoe ppl high beamed them.. we were in the back high beamin them back! hahahaha

Boy oh boy.. we MUST do that again!!! this time with a few AMG 208's eh? *hint hint* *coughrenncough*

good job guys!!! i like the way you gyus drive!!! ahahah good stuff steve n ian!

-sparcus

Last edited by sparcus on 12-16-2002 at 11:22 PM

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and moflo's response

It was most definetly fun watching Steve drive the C43, as i was sitting shotgun. As much as he tried being a social driver, it just didn't happen. So as soon as Rascal passed us up and Steve got the OK from the owner in the back seat, Steve had the biggest smile i have ever seen on anyone before. As the C43 downshifted and throw us back into the seat, the C280TT seem to stand still for a second and we start getting closer to it. Of course through out this whole time Steve could not stop chuckeling when looking in the rear view mirror at tP's efforts to keep up with us. I do have to give props to tP for doing a great job keeping up but then again he never slowed down once he get started. Both C280TT and C43 where going between 80 - 130 at any given time, due to traffic constrants. tP stayed at a constant 130 or so all the way home. Just like the turtle and the hare.

It was a blast to say the least....

 

at least my superior driving skills kept up. haha

 

That's it! I'm moving to the west coast.

 

superior driving skills in deed.

 

man

u guys seriously needed a vid cam

check out this similar cruise, but with bmw's lol

http://www.dvinsight.net/videos/dvihighway.mpeg

pure heaven

we should have a benz/w202 cruise like that :0

 

Looks boring. I think the best cruise i been in was from tp house to de anza for evowerks show. THAT WAS THE OFF THE HEEEZIIEEE!!!!!! ill look for pics if i have any.

 

I've seen that BMW with the racing checkered flag in Manhattan before. It was also in European Car Magazine one time.

 

i think i had 13 beneizzziess driveeezie behizzee me on the wizo to kizzar shizzow. every1 was looking. strait pizzimp.

 

I don't got pics of us in the caravan but this is us at the show.

NOT 56k friendly sorry.
http://tpscene.com/paulstuff/evo/evo1.JPG
http://tpscene.com/paulstuff/evo/evo2.JPG
http://tpscene.com/paulstuff/evo/evo3.JPG
http://tpscene.com/paulstuff/evo/evo4.JPG

we actualy got more cars to the left of the G class but i cant find the pics.