bull shit if you have a quality roller. I nearly destroyed my practice quarter panel.
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Originally posted by Aptyp View Postbull shit if you have a quality roller. I nearly destroyed my practice quarter panel.
Also couldnt one just run a large round piece of wood, like a rolling pin, inbetween the tire and the fender opening, after heating up the paint, and just slowly rotate the tire causing the rolling pin to get forced through?
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ET23 test fit
I put a 205/55R16 on this ET23 16" Rim from a 750il E38 and held it onto the car by bolting a z3 rotor to the rim and simply holding the rotor to the car with the caliper (still have the E30 hubs in there, but this was just to check fitment of this rim)
they stick out quite a bit and it looked funny thats for sure.. but i dunno if they will still look funny when the fronts match the rear or what.. the look of a car with skinnys on the front and fatties on the rear is not cool at all, unless of course its a dragster or something..
whattaya think?
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Originally posted by Aptyp View Postnot bad, really not that bad.
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the rims are 8" wide, yours are 7". my tire size is 205/55/16. I dont know how much skinnier i could really go on a 8" wide rim. I was actually planning on running a 225/50/16 which still isnt that big.
what size would you use? nobody makes a 205 with a lower profile than 55 i dont think. the clearance for the tires looks ok actually, i dont think anything will rub unless the suspension is really bottomed out
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Originally posted by bimmer630 View Postthe rims are 8" wide, yours are 7". my tire size is 205/55/16. I dont know how much skinnier i could really go on a 8" wide rim. I was actually planning on running a 225/50/16 which still isnt that big.
what size would you use? nobody makes a 205 with a lower profile than 55 i dont think. the clearance for the tires looks ok actually, i dont think anything will rub unless the suspension is really bottomed out
by too big, i meant the diameter, not the width.
i think you need to read up on what all the numbers mean in the size of a tire, and also find out what the correct tire diameter for the e30 is.
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the tire in the pic is a 205/55, just cause thats what i found in the scrap tire pile. thats not the size i wanna run.
and i dont need to "read up" on tire size terminology- 225-Width. 50-aspect ratio. 16-rim size. Many people do think that the first # is the height of the tire, i have noticed that.
I know all this crap cause I mount tires all day, to the point where i get sick of looking at them (!)
BTW i thought you had said in another post that your style 5 E38 wheels were 16x7, dunno why i thought that, maybe that was somebody elses rims
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and to help you with that, nub
http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
stock e30 tire is 195/65-14
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