Question with wheels

Rob_Cool1 · Post by **Rob_Cool1** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:54 pm

Ive been looking at wheels for a while now (wont be anytime soon though

) but its hard to find a wheel which has a 4x114.4 stud pattern that i like, getting the hub adaptors are like £300 for a set so could i get the wheels drilled with a new stud pattern? so its like those multi stud wheels you can get?

I'm thinking about saving up for these, once some other bits have been sorted

but these look like there already multistud but at 4x 100

http://www.rarerims.co.uk/wheelshop_pro ... uct=Kyusha

these are pretty similar and they only have 4 holes:
http://www.cadeswheels.com/blast.html

It'll probably be a case of saving up for the hub adaptors too but its worth an ask lol

Cheers
Rob

Post by **Merlin** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:56 pm

Rob_Cool1 wrote:its hard to find a wheel which has a 4x114.4

Rob_Cool1 wrote:I'm thinking about saving up for these, once some other bits have been sorted but these look like there already multistud but at 4x 100
http://www.rarerims.co.uk/wheelshop_pro ... uct=Kyusha

Isnt the 2G 4x100?

Rob_Cool1 · Post by **Rob_Cool1** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:14 pm

oh really? i thought it was 114.4 for some reason :S that makes life a lot easier haha!

Post by **Merlin** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:27 pm

Yeah the 2G & 3G are 4x100

All 4th gen's and 5th gen 2.0/2.2 non-VTEC are 4x114.3

5th gen's with the H22 are 5x114.3

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:30 pm

Your prayers have been answered

Have you seen the new Classic Enkei range?

http://www.enkei.com/classic.shtml

Post by **Merlin** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:32 pm

Finding good wheels in 4x114.3 is difficult. At least Civics use 4x100 so there should be more choice.

Rob_Cool1 · Post by **Rob_Cool1** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:07 pm

That is amazing! haha so much more choice now, can someone explain offset to me lol? i have no idea what it means lol

Post by **Merlin** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:18 pm

http://www.worldoneperformance.com/blog ... sets-work/

For our cars is basically means the lower the number the more the wheel will stick out.

http://www.ludegeneration.co.uk/wiki/in ... Tyre_Sizes

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:30 pm

If a wheel is 8" wide (8j) and has an offset of 0 (et0) it means the mating face of the wheel (the face that touches the hub) is exactly in the middle of the wheel. As soon as you have a positive offset, et40 for example, it means the mating face is move out 40mm towards the outside of the wheel. This in turn means the wheel will go 40mm further into the car. And vice versa with minus (et-8 for example) offsets.

So if you know your existing wheels are 7j with an offset of et35 and you want you new rims to stick out a further 10mm, you want either 7j et25...

Or you can start getting more complicated and do some maths to consider different widths. For example you could go for an 8j rim (25.4mm wider). If it has exactly the same offset it means it'll be 12.7mm wider in both directions from the hub. So if you still only wanted 10mm more and not 12.7mm you'd need an 8j et27.7 (et28).

To make it easier to understand...

Rob_Cool1 · Post by **Rob_Cool1** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:38 pm

ahh ok

thanks, i take it its in mm? thats cleared a lot of stuff up haha

will probably thn save up for the rotas

hey come in 15x7 ET38 and 15x8 ET0, i was thinking of getting the 8"s when i lower it but would that be too wide? its got 7" 16's on and they fit nicely but its the steering im worried about, dont want it hitting the inner arch lol. i really wanted to get 7" on the front and 8" on the rear but no one seems to sell them like that