Staff@RPM

Wow, the car is gonna look great with those wheels. Great choice on all your parts. I am going crazy waiting for the weather to break and I was thinking about throwing my wheels on today, I can't take it anymore.

I hit a pothole the other day and have a bubble in my tire now and my car is making a right hand turn all the time now. I think I am just gonna throw the new wheels on and align it again, see how strong these Volks really are.

PetroC63

Thanks.

..and thanks for the bolts they look fantastic and should add a nice
touch to the wheels.

Don't remind me of potholes, it feels like I'm on a slalom course here
trying to avoid them.

Staff@RPM

I just put the wheels on, I don't know what I'm thinking but I had to do it. My car looks so plain with the stock wheels. Now I just have to avoid driving to Manhattan.

PetroC63

I'm waiting for my Nitto's to come, should be here next week.
I was going to wait until March but I may mount, balance and
put them on and hope we don't get any more snow.

I'm dying to take off my winter tires.

JCH

Beautiful wheels - nice touch with the pinstripe. I have an Obsidian black C63 also and plan on buying the F14's but cannot decide between the flat black or gloss black. Maybe pics of yours on the car will help me decide. Here's to an early spring for the east coast!

John

PetroC63

Thanks John.

The weather is supposed to be in the 60's by Friday and my tires
will be here this week. I may throw them on by the weekend.


Mike

Staff@RPM

Are you going to MIR Friday? It looks like they picked the best day ever for a track rental. Who would have imagined that Friday would be so nice.

PetroC63

This rental is out for me. I'll be in on the next Atco rental.

I can't believe the weather either - perfect for racing.

PetroC63

Tires are here.

I changed the fronts from NT555's to NT05's.

After a little more research I found that the NT-05's are 4lbs lighter
than the NT555's, 25lbs vs 29lbs each. Every little bit counts.

The fronts are 245/40ZR18 NT05
The rears are 285/35ZR18 NT555R drag radials.

Mort

Those tires look great. I hope they stick well for your track days.

Are you planning to run them full time? How do you think they will do in the wet?

PetroC63

Thanks.

Yes, full time duty for these. Prior to these, I use to run with
M/T's drag radials and never had a problem in the rain so I
expect these to be similar. We'll see how they do.

Even Money

Don't let the tread get too low on these if you're gonna drive in the rain. These 285s will easily hydroplane and can cause a nasty fishtail before you know what happened...I got surprised on I-5 in the rain and couldn't go above 50 all the way home. Not fun...

PetroC63

Thanks for the heads up.

I'll definately keep a close eye on them.

PetroC63

Here are a couple of pictures of the Forgestar's mounted and
on the car. Please excuse the filthiness of the car. I will have
better pictures when the car is properly cleaned.

Black conical bolts from RPM North




Black pinstripe


Nitto 285/35ZR18 NT555R are huge. They just fit.

GHAZAN

Nice...the pin stripe gets lost now with the tire tho

PetroC63

Thanks, the pinstripe does looks much better in person but
yes I can see how the tire blends into it.

I'll clean the car up and take some better pics and see
how it looks.

cek

They look great!

I just picked up my almost identical wheels (after returning the black ones I didn't like). "Almost" because mine are ET40/ET55 and don't have the pinstripe. I have Vredestein Ultrac Senssanta (245 F, 275 R). I will put them on the car this weekend.

It will be interesting to compare the look with these differing offsets & tires with photos like yours...

PetroC63

Thanks.

The F14's are great looking wheels. Are you getting black bolts
from RPM?

I'll have more photos up soon. I have an appointment for a full car
detail this Friday.

cek

No, my car is Palladium and I think I'll prefer the chrome bolts.

PetroC63

Understood.

Post up pics when you get them on.

Faris63

PetroC63

Your car looks sick on these wheels
waiting to see how's the hood will look like

JCH

Nice - do you have a side shot of the whole car?

Roswell

Very nice Petro... they are nicer & "look" bigger than I thought, even with the pinstripe. Good job!!

PetroC63

Thanks, the hood should be here pretty soon.

Thank you.

I will have new pics very soon. Getting the car detailed tomorrow.

Thanks.

I was so relieved when they went on and did not look too small but
man these Nitto 285/35ZR18's are wide and they just clear.

PetroC63

Here are a couple of Iphone pics after detailing.






I'll take some more with a better camera tomorrow.