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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 11:00 AM
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WOW.. I hope urs dont scrape like mine did. I had to roll the fender on mine
 
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 01:09 PM
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Car looks good. Do you mind telling me what size lip you have front/rear. I didn't know you could have the inside of the wheel polished. BTW, those rear tires look meaty.
 
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 06:17 PM
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Those are the same wheels that I'm planning to get but with a step lip.

Congrat on the new wheels.
 
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 07:22 PM
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The backs will tuck in if you lower your ride. I have 20" DPE's all the way around but the wheels came in before my Eibach springs. I was pissed because they stuck way out, I thought they had messed up on the fitment. They assured me that they will come in when I lowered it and they did. they look real nice now.
 
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 07:34 PM
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Beautiful. Nice color contrast. Post some more pics when you drop it...it'll be even nicer. Why not 20" all around?
 
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 07:58 PM
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cr@pola!!! it rubs in the back too, now I have some slices in my tire. now I need to get the fenders rolled. I was told they would fit, no fender rolling required.

The reason I went with a 19 in the front was I wanted to get as much meat between the rim and the road as possible to lessen the likelyhood of warping a rim. by staggering I could get pretty close to stock diameters. Stock diameters are F/R, 25.98"/26.69" and I'm rolling on 26.03"/26.74". If I used a 20" in the front I would have to use a 30 series to get close to stock diameter, which is a little too thin for my comfort. with the 19" in the front I could get a 35 series. The front wheel takes most of the hits and is usually the one to get warped in my experience.
 
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 08:12 PM
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Mine rubbed in the rear and sliced my sidewalls too. Rolled the fenders and voila...its great and I dumped it even more
 
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 08:59 PM
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cr@pola!!! it rubs in the back too, now I have some slices in my tire. now I need to get the fenders rolled. I was told they would fit, no fender rolling required.

maybe because those tires brands are known to be wider than the size stated. So if you compare a michelin 285 wide tire compared to the BFG KDW 285's, the michelin's would be a little more narrow.
 
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Old Jun 20, 2006 | 12:13 AM
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Car looks good. Do you mind telling me what size lip you have front/rear. I didn't know you could have the inside of the wheel polished. BTW, those rear tires look meaty.
lip is just shy of 2" in the front and 4" in the rear. Yeah, the BFGs are meaty maybe that's why I had the rubbing. I spoke to Jojo at DPE and he said the rims have worked in the past but it all depends on the tire brand. I wanted something meaty to protect the rim from curbing, that's why I didn't go for the stretched look.

BTW I got my fenders rolled and that did the trick.
 
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 02:05 AM
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Looks sweet! But the offset looks wrong. Did you order them like that or did they just send em like that?
"The offset looks wrong" because the offset on your rims in the rear are too low-the offset needs to be HIGHER...this will give it a more "tucked" look.

If you're rubbing now, trimming the inside of your rear fenders may not be enough because the tires are so wide. it's hard to tell by the pics...but, the tires seem to be sticking out past the fender

You may try compensating by lowering your car to create more negative camber...but your tire wear will be drastically affected with too much...to compensate for this you can flip the tires every 7500 miles...etc, etc.

You can try putting 275's on the rear next time...it will help and won't look too streched. If you're running a 20x10.0, a 275x30 tire is wide enough to protect your rims.

Good Luck!
 

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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 02:37 AM
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any updated pics of the car???
 
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Old Jul 9, 2006 | 01:36 AM
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Those are the hotness...im going to go jerk off to those...
 
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Old Jul 9, 2006 | 05:35 AM
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those are sick. They look really unique.
 
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Old Jul 9, 2006 | 08:50 AM
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truplay8, no updated pics yet. still running on stock suspension, I can't deside if I want to drop it yet, I would really hate to scrape every single day as I drive into work.

thanks everyone, I'm really happy with the wheels, just the wait time sucked.
 
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