Chromies

[love ke70]

wow its amazing how things just pop up every now and then when uve been thinking about them for a while

i remembered seeing these wheels

http://au.boostcruising.com/database/membe...347pslfile1.jpg

and as really the rims on the 1g ke70 need a respray as there are rust marks on them :) i was thinking of doing something like that, with the pink centre and chrome dish

and then i could even incorporate pink of somesort into the respray, like a colour with pink pearl :(

heres a pic of the car with the wheels, gives a good enough idea of what the rims are like

 

what do people reckon to doing them like those in the link up there^ ?

 

cheers guys, sorry for the hi-jack :cool:

 

like every one has said spacers are the go, and no chrome in my opinion, but i don't need spacers and on the rear theyre 15*8

also, the bigger your wheels the slower your accelation, and if your ke70 is stock, we all know that the launch in a ke70 is a piss poor attempt at movement :wink:

[Rolla__Boy]

Matte black is the new pink :P

[love ke70]

Aaah hehe you find my Sakura Cherry Blossom rims on Boostcruising

 

nope, i followed a link...ok wtf, i swear the link was in this thread...well anywho i followed a link in a topic on rollaclub and re-discovered them.

Pink is so 2005, it isn't funny. 2004 was orange, no idea what the trend will be this year

but do you think the pink centre chrome dish will look good on these wheels? i do, but I'm wrong most of the time lol plus keeping track up with trends is far too expensive, ill just have to decide somethin and atm I'm liking what ive said....but getting wheels painted wont be for a while, was just chasing some opinions :P

 

I don't think you're going to have much of a problem launching a KE70 with a 1GGTE

only traction :P

i was just sayin for the sake of appearing to be keeping on topic to rolla70 that big wheels means an even slower lauch than normal.

[love ke70]

Well if the drag racers are right, then the fronts make more difference to breaking the rolling resistance... Hence front runners. Skinny wheels on the front.

 

i was more thinking the effect of a larger diameter ie 17's and what not, apparently to go from 13's to 17's is similiar to losing 20 hp on acceleration, just something to keep in mind when the 4k doesnt push too much more than 20 hp lol

 

at the moment the rims arnt too shiny at all, it looks like that silver spray you by in a can, really not cool :P

i could get them sprayed to be proper shiny couldnt i?

i think it'll look really good, might have a nerdy hour and see if i can do a chop lol. but i doubt i can :P really not my thing, ill give it a go, its what its all about ;)

[love ke70]

If the rolling diamater of the rubber and width of the rims are the same, it shouldn't make a shit of difference between 13" and 17" rims...

 

important word there, if, in general a 17" rim even with low profile rubber will come out larger than a 13" stocko, i think thats the point that was being made when i read the statement

[love ke70]

hmm, I'm not arguein, but the way i see it the diff ratio is 4.3:1 and thats alright with 13" wheels, and lets pull some numbers out of our arse here, and lets say that the 13" rubber is 1.5 metres for one revolution, that goes alright, although somewhat sluggish with the low torque 4k, so we put 17"s on and lets say one revoltion is now 2 metres, so basically to turn the wheels once is a longer distance, so to do this at the same acceleration rate as with the 1.5 metre 13"s you need more torque, or a different diff ratio.

 

thats the way i see it anyway... :P

[love ke70]

yes indeed i am

 

like i said earlier "in general a 17" rim even with low profile rubber will come out larger than a 13" stocko"

 

my opinion anyway

[love ke70]

yes you are correct, but often people don't stay legal, and i was just saying for rolla70's benefit incase he wasnt aware.

if you look at the first pic by fayt, i doubt the rolling diameter on those is the same as the rolling diameter on 13" stocks, but anywho :P its all good

[love ke70]

no, i prob didnt make my original arguement clear, but from the start i was talking about increasing rolling diameter, guess i should have specified, my bad :P