Cosmo Kramer

I was browsing at wheels for my Audi and stumbled across these and noticed the Porsche sizing. 18 x 8 et 59 and 18 x 9 et 53. I think the style would look great on a 928 with the thick spokes

http://www.tirerack.com/wheels/Wheel...All&sort=Brand

ALKada

I agree and a nice price ($736.00 w/o tax) too.

Mrmerlin

what is the bolt pattern? Pcars need 5 X 130

ian

Lead butter alloy wheels, thats what I thought of my last set of wheels from Sport Edition.

They looked great, had excellent fitment, but my goodness were they heavy. I had a stet of 17 inch Sport Edition 4s, and when I swapped back to OEM wheels with the same tires I lost 8 lbs a corner. That is a lot of unsprung weight to be hauling around.

Cosmo Kramer

Ya they are 25-26 lbs a piece, not the lightest for sure but I have seen worse. Bolt pattern is 5-130.

Hard to find high offset fronts like that.

Kevin in Atlanta

Could you buy 4 rears and have 9" at all corners? Offset: 53mm?

69gaugeman

Me likey!

SMTCapeCod

one of the wheel threads has a pic of a red S4 with these, looks good.

dprantl

9" ET53 wheels would be bad for the front. The wider the wheel, the larger the offset you need. 18x8" ET59 is very good in the front though, better than the Carrera III wheels.

Dan
'91 928GT S/C 475hp/460lb.ft

Kevin in Atlanta

Thanks for the reply. I am always on the look out for matched wheels on all four corners.

Snowglobe

Will these fit an 84? I'd like to get phone dials but 18" wheels would leave more options for brake upgrades.

pcar928fan

Dan is exactly right. These should look very nice. Weight does a couple of really bad things though... Heavy steering which will wear parts faster, heavy wheels are harder to slow down, so breaking will be noticeably worse and on the opposite end of that is putting power down to the pavement, it will take more power to spin those wheels up, so slower acceleration.

They look REALLY nice though and I look forward to seeing them on a 928! I am not sure they are much heavier than the PanAm 18" 5 spoke base wheels though, which I run on my '95 GTS and just LOVE! The place I noticed a big difference was going from stock 16" slotted dish wheels to aftermarket Carrera Light Weight 18" wheels! BIG CHANGE!!! Braking and putting power down were both hurt badly!

77tony

Dinsdale's running Audi 18's on his 82. T

Cosmo Kramer

I noticed this when I went from Turbo II 18" solid spokes to Cup 2's. Then I checked this site and did the conversion and the Cup 2's were a whopping 31.9 lbs lighter for the set of 4.

http://www.944racing.de/wheelweights.php

These Sport Editions are about 19.75 lbs heavier for the set than the Cup 2's.

GeorgeM

For what it's worth...

http://tires.about.com/od/buyers_gui...ket-Wheels.htm