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View Poll Results: Which 928 Wheels I'd Like To See in Modern 18 Inch Sizes
Club Sport
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28.24%
D90's
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16.79%
Cup I - also known as C2 Turbo
34
25.95%
Cup II - also known as 993
55
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18 inch versions of Classic 928 Wheels

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Old 05-20-2010, 09:05 AM
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Default 18 inch versions of Classic 928 Wheels

Simple poll. Vote for the wheel you would like to see in more modern 18 inch diameters with more appropriate offsets. Todays tire choices for our aged 16/17 inch wheels are diminishing.

You can choose more than one

An example of a wheel size I'd like to see: 9Jx18 ET70 - Front 11Jx18 ET45 - Rear

Unfortunately the poll option limits you to only four choices. Therefore I chose the four I believe are the ones most would be interested in:

Club Sport
D90's
Cup I / C2 Turbo (known as both)
Cup II / 993

If you are a fan of the retro Phone Dials or the Flat Dish wheels feel free to post comments about them as well.

If you think the existing 928 stock sizes are fine and would have no interest in new 18in versions then comment away and if your wheel desires and needs are met by other Porsche wheels or third party providers of performance wheels (Fiske, HRE, ....) then indicate that as well.
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18" phone dials in polished aluminum would look hot!
Old 05-20-2010, 09:30 AM
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Audi's 18" version... Not quite the same, but similar.

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Everybody goes down this road until you know the cost of doing some one-off custom wheels.
Something more do-able would be taking some flat wheels and milling them out to be club sports, and cutting out the wheel center to make a 3 piece wheel in a 17" size.
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Originally Posted by 928andRC51
Everybody goes down this road until you know the cost of doing some one-off custom wheels.
Something more do-able would be taking some flat wheels and milling them out to be club sports, and cutting out the wheel center to make a 3 piece wheel in a 17" size.
Why mill out an existing 16 inch wheel that looks like a Club Sport wheel? For that cost you can just buy a set of CS. Making a three piece 17 inch wheel still has the same problem, lack and diminishing tire choices in widths most want, especially on the rear.
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I have been through the whole wheel thing and ended up with some 18" forged one piece.
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Definitely phone dials.

There are already plenty of 5-spoke 18's on the market and the flat dish/D90/CS wheels are rather boring IMO.

It would be cool if we could get enough people together to convince Strosek to do another production run with 8"-9" front and 11" rears with 928 offsets:



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I would love some 18" phone dials. I think you could cut the centers out of a 16" wheel to make a 3 piece 17", but I doubt it could do an 18".

I thought about doing this, but then realized how stupid it would be to do for a car I paid $2000 for.
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real phone dials real wide in 18
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Plus 1 Cosmo 18 inch phone dials in polished aluminum.
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I want 18x12 phone dials for my 335/30/18 888's.
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18" phone dials that look like the 16" ones...(not the 15 inch flatter ones)..and not like the stosek ones..
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Wife loves the phonedials but aren't wide enough and can't find wide 16" tires. So +1 on the pd's. (not strosek style. never did like them)
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The actual porsche phone dial style with the raised lip around the holes, in a deep dish offset in an 18" diameter FORGED wheel would be sweet. I'll bet you could talk CCW into doing it here stateside. That would save alot of money VS getting them from Strosek. If you made them in a 3 piece style it would also save some $$ vs one piece wheels since they would still be able to use their existing rim halves and offer many widths and offsets to suit everyones needs.
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Originally Posted by Hacker-Pschorr
It would be cool if we could get enough people together to convince Strosek to do another production run with 8"-9" front and 11" rears with 928 offsets:
+1 !
They look truely awesome, especially on wide 928.


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