E30s on 16s - post yours

[NickL]

Sweet ! What wheels are they ?

They look like 3 pcs Enkei NT03.

CCW D11L Jim,

Ignore my crooked ass stupid euro plate

[LJ851]

Fuck it, iphone pic...

Hot Damn, those are sexy !

[Jim Lepage]

CCW D11L Jim

Thank you Nick.

They're pretty !

[Acehye559]

Thank you Nick.

They're pretty !

Thanks Jim

[thatphysicsguy]

My car will be sitting on these guys come springtime!

[lambo]

[alpineII_dirty]

Excuse the quality, my 4s lens is scratched lol

[studawg]

He's absolutely right. The clamping force of the lug hardware holding the wheel face to the hub is all that's needed to keep the wheels centered. I had my Apexs mounted to the rear hubs with 10mm spacers that left no measurable length of the centerbore going into the wheel hub, and my wheels were perfectly centered. Not a single vibration or anything, tested up to 90 mph. Same with my current wheels.

You will get people trying to tell you that the hubcentric rings are intended to take the load off of the lug hardware and onto the hub center. If this were true, hubcentric rings made of plastic would be less than useless. The entire weight of your car is NOT resting on the lug hardware. Their intention is to fill in the extra space around the hub and the centerbore to ensure that when you bolt up your wheels, they are in the perfect position.

From Turner Motorsports website:

Hubcentric Fitments All BMWs use hubcentric wheels. When mounted to the car, the wheel rests on a lip instead of the wheel bolts or studs. The lip contributes to the strength of the wheel and the wheel cannot safely be used without a lip. The wheel bolts are not strong enough to support the weight and loads generated through the wheel. The lip is usually 9-10.5mm in depth and the new spacer must have its own lip. Turner and H&R Spacers with their own integrated hubcentric lip are: 10mm, 12mm, 12.5mm, 15mm, 18mm, 20mm, 25mm, and 30mm.

Are you saying that TMS is wrong?

[kronus]

You know how plastic hub centering rings are really fragile? It's because the material is very stiff and doesn't deal with bending very well. it does, however, deal with pressure very well as it is completely incompressible, which is why it is used for hub rings.

Vibration is not what hub rings are aiming to solve. Bolts/studs have not changed since the 70s, but cars have gotten substantially heavier. It's a reinforcement.

[DIIRTY-30]

[logyt]

16" epsilon southernways


IMG_3281 by logyt, on Flickr

[DatUtahGuy]

Holy win batman ^^

<3

[MPLFoster]

^so jelly...lookin' good, man.

wish mine were 16's.

[IRUNEDM]

Fuck it, iphone pic...

gorgeous!

[ak-]

Much better than the d90's or whatever those Porsche wheels are called.
New valance and your car is kickin'