SRV1

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A few months back I bought a set of Stern ST-5 wheels from ****-adkt I had to figure out what I needed to do in order to clear the front brakes. After messing around with "universal" wheel spacers(garbage), I bought a set of 10mm hub centric billet aluminum spacers off E-Bay with longer wheel studs. The fit was perfect! Just enough to clear the calipers. The rear I left alone. The wheels are 18x8.5 all around. The front tires are 245/45 and the rear are 275/40. There is no rubbing issues at all. I have plenty of room in the rear to fit a wider and/or rim. The front I may be able to go to a 255 but it would most likely just rub the inner fender liner. I guess you could modify the plastic a little but I did not want to mess with that. So here are a couple of pics. Do not mind the rusty rotors and corroded calipers Let me know what you think. -James

Mugen_1

Eh - not a huge fan of those - but to each his own

Do you plan on lowering it at all, or leaving it at stock height?

python

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your front tires(45) are taller than your rears(40)? u want my honest opinion? i dont really like those rims

turboomni

Are you happy?? If so that is all that matters.

pbdolch

What's up James....I might have met you on T4R.org.

sik96ls400

Chromes are cool, but I would have gone 20's......however, that is one clean a$$ ride!

Schnitz

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No they're not. Check tire size calculator.

alredxiii

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clean looking conservative wheels looks a whole lot better than stock

SRV1

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The tires have the same circumference. I bought the car as a cruiser, something that is quiet, comfortable and rides nice with decent gas mileage. I have 4WD trucks and a Mustang and after driving those you want something plush. I would like to lower it but I do not want to give up the soft factory ride. If there is a kit that would give me the exact ride as the factory and a little lower then I would lower it a little. I like 20's on these cars but tires are expensive and ride quality is worse and also prone to bending rims due to very little sidewalls. I live in NY so the roads up here are filled with potholes and 20's would not last long. I like these wheels and these would not be my first pick but since I did not want to spend a lot of money on rims, I got these from a member here for a good price. I hopefully will be doing some cosmetic stuff like adding exhaust tips, JDM tail lights, aftermarket headlights and so on but for now it is my cruiser.

Thanks, James

SRV1

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Ah yes we did. Are you on Yotatech as well? If not check it out, they have great information there.

James

sik96ls400

I definitely hear u on the 20s and potholes up here in NY, that's where I live as well and I'm riding 99 LS stock rims, wouldn't even think for a second to put 20s up here....if I was in florida, that would be a different story.....thought u were downsouth for some reason but definitely NYs potholes are notorious and I see people with cracked/ bent rims all the time

Mugen_1

When I was debating between 18s and 20s, tires for 20s were cheaper by quite a bit than the 18s.

And actually, ride quality doesn't diminish that much going from stocks to 20s, especially since ours cars are so heavy. I have 20s with a 35 profile and before I lowered it, I couldn't tell much of a difference from stock - it's the lowering (and the settings thereof) that more or less affects ride quality. Trust me, we have terrible roads where I drive (So. Illinois and especially around St. Louis) and I was worried about that too - but once you actually try it, you'll see it's not so bad. I was skeptical too at one point

But like sik96ls400 said, that is one VERY clean ride. And like I said before and so have others, if you're happy, that's all that matters.

python

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well the sidewalls look higher to me

Lexkost

Very strange color !

PureDrifter

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WOOO the Return of Lexkost!
edit: NVM LexKost got tricks