"DatASSun" (DatASSun)
07/21/2014 at 16:03 • Filed to: None
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"DatASSun" (DatASSun)
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Well I'll be damned thats a perfect fitment right there boys and girls .
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GhostZ
> DatASSun
07/21/2014 at 16:08 |
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If this post was a girl, I would end up getting beat up by her father.
Diesel
> DatASSun
07/21/2014 at 16:08 |
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And then use it as a butt plug.
Textured Soy Protein
> DatASSun
07/21/2014 at 16:08 |
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I've always liked Panasports. I could do with less tire stretch on the rears though.
With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username
> DatASSun
07/21/2014 at 16:09 |
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Could it be the most (or only?) attractive Z31 in existence?
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> DatASSun
07/21/2014 at 16:12 |
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It is a beautiful Z31, no doubt about it. It looks pretty similar to the limited-edition JDM version of the Z31 that had the RB-series inline-6, rather than the usual V6 that this generation of Z-car started.
I might have picked a wheel with a less rounded-spoke design, for such an angular body style, though.... those Panasport/Minilite/Watanabe style wheels do look good on earlier S30 and S130 cars, though.
The front tires don't look too badly stretched, but the rear tires do looks a bit narrower than the wheel rim width... Some people like that, I prefer tires to be meatier and wider than the wheels they are mounted on, rather than narrower.
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DatASSun
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
07/21/2014 at 16:16 |
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I drive a LS swapped 280z that actually just fired up for the first time this past weekend . Video and a write up to come on that... I found some Atara Racing wheels that were different for a change and now they are back ordered. HUGE LET DOWN . So I'm looking for new wheels but haven't got any help from oppo finding wheels that are 4x114.3 -20 or more offset. It's like finding a unicorn ...... for a thousand bucks.
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DatASSun
> With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username
07/21/2014 at 16:20 |
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You know I always thought these were fucking ugly and I'd say in the past 6 months it's turned around. I don't know if all the kiddos that want the car I have S30 chassis 280z can't get one for a decent price that isn't rusted to hell and back. So they pick these up and make the best out of what they have or if I'm just getting old and starting to like things made in the 80's ): who am I kidding I've got a 280z with a ls swap and mexican blanket seats.
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DatASSun
> Textured Soy Protein
07/21/2014 at 16:21 |
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I'm thinking the wheels may be a offset but both running the same tire size. I see the fender flare in the rear and see where he could have gone a lot bigger in tire size.
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DatASSun
> Diesel
07/21/2014 at 16:22 |
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I like where you went there.
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DatASSun
> GhostZ
07/21/2014 at 16:24 |
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GhostZ how ya been man ! long time no talk I got my Z going this past weekend just to get stumped by a leaking radiator drain plug last night. The 5.3 sounds great and the cam is big to say the least.
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GhostZ
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
07/21/2014 at 16:40 |
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Everything that I can tell about it is that it is indeed a 200ZR. Picture (thought it was the same car, it's not) for reference:
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With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username
> DatASSun
07/21/2014 at 16:43 |
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The Z's were dead to me when they dropped the sugar-scoop headlights. Maybe having not even looked at a Z31 for so long has softened me.
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> DatASSun
07/21/2014 at 22:00 |
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I would be tempted to use pattern-adapters or at least wheel spacers, if you are talking about that kind of negative offset.
Almost no negative offset muscle car wheels are 4-bolt... A negative offset wheel is usually negative due to the wheel width being wider than most, meaning a big wide tire with more traction... to handle more torque, from engines like V8s. V8 cars usually use 5-bolt to handle the shearing loads without breaking wheel studs. Not only torque... but high-powered V8 cars usually tended to be heavier, so the brakes had to be similarly up-rated, which also puts shearing loads on lugs.
Also, almost no stock 4 bolt wheels are anywhere near wide enough, nor are the cars designed to have negative offset wheels... even if the old ones have low positive offset, or zero offset.
4x4.5 inch PCD (the imperial description of 4x114.3mm) bolt pattern, and -2o offset is a tall order.
Re-fitting to later 5-bolt hubs and brakes, such as S13 or S14 parts, if they can be made to fit. Otherwise, at least some aluminum spacers might shift the offset of the wheel fitment back to positive. PCD adapter spacers to more common 4x1oomm, and fit some more readily available wheels.
going from -20 to +20mm is a 40mm difference, translated to 1.57 inches. A 2 inch spacer is 50.8mm... putting wheel fitment into the low +30-something millimeter range. There are probably tons of 4-bolt wheels in that offset range, even with some decent widths.
I'd be tempted to run some 949Racing 6UL wheels, and spacers, staggered with 15x8 front, and 15x9 rear. I think these would look good on an S30 or S130, but you have to directly contact them for fitment dimensions... since they make them... they might be customizeable.
http://949racing.com/15-wheels.aspx