Wheels for Rocket Bunny?
 

Hey guys,

I'm going widebody soon and I have a few questions regarding the wheels I'm gonna go with. I'm running two setups currently:

Volk CE28N's for DD and OZ Ultraleggeras for track.

The volks' specs are:
Fronts 18x8.5
Rears 18x9.5
ET for both is unknown but the rears are around +30 and the fronts are around +40.

The ultraleggeras are out of the question because their width is 8" and that wouldn't work in any way.

My question is, will I be able to use spacers and pull this off with the volks temporarily or am I gonna have to go for something like 10-11" width? I know the tires wouldn't look meaty and wide and would destroy the "widebody" look but this is just temporary till I'm able to get work meisters for my setup that would fit perfectly.

Anyone done this with spacers before? if so I'd like to see pics too!

Thanks.

Your going to need something like 60mm spacers for the rear, id just put it off for a while and save up for the right wheel setup.

I mocked up one with my 18x10 +44 volks and it would have needed like 65mm spacers in the front and 75mm spacers in the back to look right.

Woah, that would be too dangerous to drive on though?

I know offroad truck places out here that can make any size spacer/adapter you want. They jump and offroad trucks with these all the time. However they aren't cheap and by that point you might as well just buy the right wheels.

I heard about custom made spacers for these things but it still sounds risky, you might be more experienced in this, I mean if I make these spacers I'm not gonna be roadkill am I?

And prices, we're talking about how much approx?

Chances are, if you're nickle and diming a wide body kit setup, you can't afford it.

Just save up until you can do it right.

It's not about saving up, we barely have anyone importing any known wheels like work, rays, bbs and so on. I'd have to wait a long time to custom order some wheels and have them shipped to Dubai and I really can't wait for that if I see them fenders in my storage room so yeah.

I dont think many wheels exist that are off the shelf that would be wide enough/low enough offset without going up to the 20inch sizing, 3 piece custom is the only thing that's going to fit.

A three-four month wait to order 3 piece wheels wont kill you, or wait for the speed hunters rocket bunny kit thats not as wide.

I guess you're right I'll have to wait either ways, I guess I'll just order the wheels and wait, when is the speedhunters kit coming out?

Speedhunters kit coming out spring/summer

I might just wait for updates from them during the next month and if not then I'm gonna order work meisters and just go with RB.

Couldn't find anyone importing rays wheels with the offsets/widths I'm looking for in here.

Id recommend the v1 over both the KM4SH and v2, because the KM4SH doesn't cut the rears which might restrict wheel sizings and the v2 is ugly in addition it requires 19" wheels :barf:.

After im done with my trubo build i plan on doing v1 fenders and a set of bbs rs with a re barrled lip or so, that is if i dont build a stanced ls400

my 2 cent though

Yeah I love the V1 over the V2 but the km4sh rear fenders look a bit more curvy and nicer but still. Lucky you, in the states finding bbs wheels and re barrelling bla bla is easy, I show the guys over here all of this and every one has a question mark over their heads like how is it possible that you can make a 15" wheel go up to 18" -.-

If you want to use the car for track use, why do you need a rocket bunny kit? The wheels will fit in the wheels before the kit. Plus spacer don't help in terms of performance.

I am not saying you shouldn't go widebody, but if you do. You should definitely get wheels that are enormous!!! You know. . . kind of like this. I think this is a 12" wheel in the rear.

http://purwheels.com/wp-content/uplo...FRS_PUR_11.jpg

18x10 -offset (front) and 18x11 -offset (rear) if you wanna go RB. But with the current setup a 9.5+30 rear with 1-1.5" drop, 255's, and camber you'll be OK. Personally, i wouldnt go RB and wide wheels/tires unless im pushing >400whp/400wtq. And if you do get that power, you'll have to change a lot of things in your car, diff would be top of the list.

I don't track it often just casual and if I go RB then the car wouldn't be tracked at all, in fact it's more of a show car. DD for me meaning that the car is drive-able and I won't have trouble with you know weekend trips (approx 80 miles trips).

:thanks:

What do you mean with my current setup I would be ok, the car is dropped around 1.4", stretched on 225/40 pilots, camber is stock but you know when you go lower you gain a bit of negative camber so I'm guessing over stock by a bit. With my current setup the wheels are nowhere to be flush with the wide fender.

The car is merely a show car I'm not planning on any FI at the moment. She has an overpipe, front pipe and cat-back, CAI, tune, that's it.


http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3155/sfjt.JPG

Ah, alright then. You should be fine with spacers though. Just make sure you get really good ones though. Cause they are going to be under a lot stress.

Oh! Okay...i thought you had 8.5 front and 9.5 rear. If its a showcar, then RB that thing. But im not the "All show, no go." type of guy.

The stress thing is getting me, but I heard that a lot of people run big spacers and didn't have any issues so yeah.

Yes that's my current setup, I think we got jumbled haha, I'm on 8.5 fronts and 9.5 rear with +40 in the front and +30 in the back, little bit of negative camber in the back and I'm perfectly flush with the fender now with no spacers and I'm poking not too much not too little.

Well if you are dishing money out for a Rb build its worth it to get a set built here and shipped out !


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Those pur wheels *drool*

Buy those there's a group buy for them right now.

hally auto in dubai is a dealer of work wheels. You can check ravspec for custom orders i recommend them

This is what is going to happen most probably. Work vs xx extreme gold :drool:

Not my style at all :/.

I'll check them out, I checked one thousand dunes garage but the prices were overkill for the meisters.

If you have no problem with spending money on another set of wheels, I would recommend a large wheel with a very low offset. Something like a 12" wheel will really help with cutting down on spacers.

Just do stock body and boost that car. Hella sleeper.

Yeah my plan is to get wider wheels but while I'm waiting for the wheels I figured I can do something about the current setup but oh well, some things are worth waiting for :p.

Hahaha, been there done that, not with this car.

One thing i can say for sure, wheels and tires are the most important thing to focus on if ur gonna run the rocket bunny kit. u dont want ur wheels to sit inside the fenders, u want them to stick out just as much as the kit does.