Who's running 19" rims?
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There are some issues with 19s like finding a tire that is close to the normal 25 inch diameter even a 285x30x19 is about 26 inch tall . Which means the sidewall is 3 and 1/2 inches tall but the typical wheel lip protrudes about 3/4 of an inch from the tire mounting surface. 3 1/2 minus 3/4 inch gives you a whopping 2 and 3/4 inches of rubber tire between the road surface and bending the rim and that is with a tire taller than it should be by 1/2 inch at the sidewall. So the speedo reads wrong . acceleration is a bit slower. But everyone is tired of hearing " you will bend your rims" so I concede; Yes big rims look great !! Now about those 24s that gives you 1/2 inch of sidewall !
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I will be running 19s on the 85 Euro as soon as the wheels get made! The tire sizes are finally available to do it "right". The timing is also perfect with the new (coming soon) Kinesis SuperCup "R" and BW MotorSports C2 Turbo "R" wheels, both available in 18 " Reverse Drop Center" and 19" versions. The tire sizes I will be running are 255/30-19 fronts on 9" or 9.5" and 305/25-19 (25.1" diameter) rears on 11". I am getting the first 19" Kinesis SuperCup "R" set and they will (better be) ready for Sharks in the Mountains. Testing will resume then and if all goes well we will be offering a full line of 19s for the 928... :-)
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Yes, I was looking at a Z8 beemer today and a vette. The two areas where style design has advanced are wheel tire size and headlights that don't have to pop up. As Jim notes, the factory wheels still have a little meat to the sidewalls. I seem to recall 16 by 7 was considered really big and wide at the end of the 70's. Of course, if you saw the wheels on a 917 you would say they belong on a skateboard they're that short and wide. But the style of the plastic nose on the 928 is still being mirrored right to this day, and the folded headlights look a lot like this years models, at least when closed. With the big wheels, the car slips right in to the modern mold, except of course for the sidewall height. I don't think I could get away with those wheels in this part of NY. I'm starting to think that the pothole is the state flower. They sure look purdy in the picture though. So for me the question would be can you lower the overall gearing to match a biger profile tire? will they clear the wheel arches, and can the speedo be calibrated? I suppose a whole lot else would have to be done as well. ''Dammit Jim, I'm just an old country doctor. I'm used to slip angle and carburator starvation. These new fangled wheels and these SC engines, why you can put me on a bus for home right now.'' Actually I'm really looking forward to Sharks in the Mountains. I'd love to see what you guys can do with a little string and bailing wire. Not to metion hardware and bling.
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Can someone post a side-on pic of 19's on a 928?
-Personally, I don't think that anything larger than a 17 inch wheel looks good on a 928. 18's look a bit "lifted" and artificial to my eyes. It helps to lower the car, since big wheels make the car look lifted...but now you are into "bad-suspension-geometry-land" and you'll beat your butt with a rough ride, poor handling, and you'll eat up tires like an NSX. What's needed is a set of dropped-spindles for 928's, I guess.
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-Personally, I don't think that anything larger than a 17 inch wheel looks good on a 928. 18's look a bit "lifted" and artificial to my eyes. It helps to lower the car, since big wheels make the car look lifted...but now you are into "bad-suspension-geometry-land" and you'll beat your butt with a rough ride, poor handling, and you'll eat up tires like an NSX. What's needed is a set of dropped-spindles for 928's, I guess.
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I was behind a C4S the other day that was riding on 19's. Car looked like a Fred Flintstone deal, just all wheel. What makes are cars look lifted on that wheel size and not on the C4S is the redsign of wheel wells. They seem to be much larger on that car and extend further towards the ground thereby not leaving a lot of exposed wheel.