tcka

Thank you)

greekspec2

glocati

lookin good greekspec. !! nice stance. What coilovers and wheel specs, please?

FrankW

Can someone ban these bot accounts already?

greekspec2

19x9et29 w/10mm spacer 3'' dish ...215/35/19 Dunlop SportMaxx
19x10.5et29 4.5'' dish ...245/30/19 Dunlop SportMaxx

KWv1 coilovers with H&R front coilover springs 30mm shorter than KW and powder coated KW bengal yellow

silvermamba

^looks great, but post better pictures please!

kattanh3

Thank you guys very much for the feedback. I'm not sure if this is true, but I've found in a link that my wheel (5 spoke sport wheels) and tire specs are:

• Front: 5x112, 17x7.5 et:30, 225/45/17
• Rear: 5x112, 17x8.5 et 30, 245/40/17

This means that the new specs (18x8.5 et:35) will extend 8mm @ front and will retract by 5mm @ rear. The new wheels are BBS LM-R reps by Miro. I'd like the car to be flush, so I think I'll go with 225/40/18 @ front & 235/35/18 +20mm spacers @ rear. This setting should make the setting look more stretched than the existing one.

• What do you think? are those OEM specs correct?
• Will I still face front brake clearance issues? (current/OEM brake intrusion is about 50mm)
• New wheels center bore is 57.1, will that be fine? or do i need some sort of adapter-ring?
• Also what are the specs of recommended lug nuts? thread? will OEM ones be fine? (my previous car had to use conal ones)

greekspec2

few more...keep in mind I,m running fitments I have not seen yet anywhere on this forum

sweet jones

beautiful car greekspec. have been wondering how i could order shorter front springs but every company i talked to told me that i couldnt do Swift upgrade. Thanks for the info. happen to have a part number for the shorter front springs?

phister

you can do swift springs they custom make springs to your spec. also eibach can make custom springs too. if not you can do coilovers.

greekspec2

you are refering to installing shorter front coilover springs correct?

Bilstein 339mm
H&R 245mm
KW 285mm
Eibach 275mm and 285mm

greekspec2

the shorter springs also allowed me to run my stock C55 aMG wheels without any spacers and tuck front tire

Tracey469

i am not sure what the cost of the 19's are, but this may help you...when I was getting cost of 17's..the lowest qoute I got for the Brabus monobloque V were $2650....that was with Michelin Pilot A/S...225/45/17's. I think the 19's were in the neighborhood of about $3500..wheels alone.

greekspec2

wow $3500 is cheap compared to 19'' Schmidt,Carlines,Kerschers,RH Alurad or MAE $5200 without tires

kattanh3

Bump! noob could use the help guys

phister

wheels will not fit since our hub is 66.6. you can get hub rings to increase you can go from larger to small with the adapter. or you can bore out the center bore to 66.6

sweet jones

Correct, shorter front coilover springs. Looking at ordering a set of coilovers and will try and find the H&R 245mm fronts since the front always sits too high on a regular setup. I really appreciate the info greekspec. I'll finally be able to install my Brombachers after a year of sitting in my room lol. Nice wheel specs too. Mine are just a bit more aggressive but i do have the ghostrider rear camber arms, ordering the mbarts rear toe arms and probably using mb camber bolts for the front if necessary.

greekspec2

KW's ride very very well but done side is they use the longest front springs....

for the price H&R you can't beat it for the price

kattanh3

Alright, so I settled for a Miro type 380 BBS LM reps. Specs are:

• Front: 18"x8.5" et:45mm +15~17mm spacers
• Rear: 18"x9.5" et:48mm +20mm spacers

Was initially planning to get 225/40/18 and 245/35/18 tires but I'm leaning towards 205/45/18 and 215/40/18 tires. Would that work???

pww

EDIT: You should be good., even with the 225 245. Might even look a bit off with the thinner tire widths with those offsets.

phister

Id go 215/40/18 front and 225/40/18 rear or 225/40/18 and 235/40/18. I usually like to keep the same sidewall height on if it's below 245 in width. With your 205/45 and 215/ 40 it's going to make it look like you have too much tire in the front and unproportioned from side view. You want the rear to look beefier

kattanh3

Thanks pww and phister.

phister, my understanding is that the profile is just a percentage of the tire width. That means that 225/40/18 and 205/45/18 on an 18x8.5" (or 216mm) wheel (as well as the stock 225/45/17 on a 17x7.5") will have identical tire diameters, only difference is stretch/poke. Same with both rear setups. None of them should look thiner than the other.

pww, you are running similar wheel widths with 20 and 26 effective offsets. What tire sizes did you use? I recall they were 225 and 255 but I don't recall the profiles.

I think the 205 & 215 might look too silly. If I'm understanding profiles correctly, then I'll probably stick to 225/40/18 and 245/35/18, that should give me a conservative stretch to go with my conservative offsets, and I'll just use 20 and 25 spacers to get 25 and 23 effective offsets. I'll also roll fenders as an extra measure. 245/40 @ rear would put my speedometer way off by 4% or so since it'll be 4% thicker than the OEM setup.

phister

The diameters between the two are slightly different the sidewall on the 205/45 is 2.5% taller and the radius is 0.7% larger a well. So they will actually look taller. The closest to the factory 225/45/17 is 215/40/18.

I personally would go with 225/40/18 & 235/40/18. That's what I previously had but I'm running 215/40/18 & 235/40/18 now. I don't care my speedometer is offoff because I use my Ark design gauge which lets me calibrate the size difference from the OEM so it reads correctly on the gauge.

kattanh3

Thanks phister. is the 2.5% after factoring for the fact that side wall wont be horizontal since the wheel width (8.5" = 216mm) is bigger than the 205 width? I might be miscalculating somewhere

phister

no but each tire sidewall is different, some are softer than others and some are stiffer so the stretch is going to be different. even 225/40 on a 18x8.5.has a minor stretch so the way a wheel measured is different from each manufacturer also. My CCW were about half an inch wider than what I expected lip to lip. Even where the tire bead sat it was liner than 9"

Just stick with sizes you choose, going lower than 215 on a 18x8.5 is to much imho. That's when lips really get beat up.