I was going to suggest tirerack too, and they'll also be able to suggest what will fit, though of course since they have to satisfy lawyers their recommendations will be fairly conservative.

I'm not too sure what's available these days. I've not bought a lot of custom wheels lately, but with white, white with machined rims can look good, esp if the wheels have a lot of open space for the discs and calipers to show through.

Many years ago I owned a 1972 Datsun 510 which I modified (funded in part by Allstate Insurance) with a BRE suspension kit (that's Brock Racing Enterprises, if you know your SCCA road racing history). It lowered the car 2.5 inches, added monster anti-roll bars with heim joints, stiffer spring pads. I put 185/70x13s on the car (replacing 5.50x13 bias ply) and found some really cool wheels. They were probably heavier than lead, but they had chrome steel rims with powder-coated cast centers with who knows what kind of offset.

The fiberglass front fenders were genuine race peices as well (from the east coast Datsun guy whose name I can't remember). The front fenders and springs had no problem with clearance but I had to roll the fenders in the rear, and then the tires cleared so close that you couldn't get your fingers between the rubber and the steel. The rear suspension was semi-trailing arm so suspension travel added negative camber, just clearing the further the wheel travelled upwards.

It was all more effective than you might think. Magazine tests at the time gave a .82 g skidpad performance, and in the real world it was very predictable with no bump steer, esp compared to a Pinto or Vega with their live rear axles.

Unfortunately I never got to the engine: one car, kids on the way, etc., though I did accumulate a crank, connecting rods and pistons that would raise the displacement from 1600cc to 1800cc and give it compression equal to whatever the 240Z had at the time. I did get headers with 2.5 inch pipe to the rear, but the Weber 2bbl carb and intake manifold never came either.

Ah, other times...

But back to the wheels. Here's a shot of the car ca. 1980 and you can see how the wheels look:


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that car is quite the collectors item now which is really odd but cool!

 

Alas, it would be a collector's item were it still around...but it's probably part of someone's clothes dryer now. [sm=boohoo.gif] Rust never sleeps...except maybe in California and Arizona. At least the good parts all went to others' projects.

 

My car saw 210 mph a little over a week ago. How could this be?

Her's my guess! you were doing 140mph car going other direction doing 70mph?
what's the answer gotta know!

good luck w/yor car

 

Note that the scale wasn't mentioned. You're all assuming mph. I'll reckon that he's talking km/h. At 140 kilometers per hour, you're going about 85 mph. [sm=bustedsign.gif]

 

Ahem. That was 210. So that figures out, if we're talking km/h, to about 125 mph.

 

So, was I right?[sm=bounceybounce.gif]

 

Here is what I have decided thus far upon the advice of those who were kind enough to interject their thoughts into this thread.

I am going to go with a 17x8 wheel. Wheel color, I am STILL undecided about. I am putting off the purchase of the wheels until I can be absolutely sure of what it is that I want. I am "leaning" to something called the 5ziegen FNROC something or anothers. It is a bronze type of wheel that is five spoke with a 35 mm offset. With a white car, I am still unsure how the bronze will look on it. I feel like black is the safer color, because I know it would work. I think that a black wheel with a chrome lip would look good, too.

I have made my mind up about stage two. I am going to go with that and get the toys. I need plug and play. You know,,,it would be nice if ONE OF YOU lived in Kentucky, so as that I could visit and learn from about mods. I would try to talk one of you into moving to Kentucky, but that would be like standing at the gates of heaven and trying to convince you on how good hell would be. Hopefully, I will have stage two by march. I'm hoping that I will have the wheels of my choice on by the end of January.

Tire size. Hmmm.......something about this really gets me. I want 245's on my car, but I have 1.5 inch lowering springs on my car (first and only mod, by the way, until I get my shorty antenna) so I just don't see how the 245's will work. I don't know what it is with me, but I want them fat tires like you cannot know. I want them John Goodman fat. I want them to be chocked full of cholesterol. I want tires that aren't just overweight, but fat.....And I'm not talking like your Uncle Joe fat, I mean FAT, FAT. I need to get it in my head to get the 235's, but I ain't there yet.

I'm going to be getting the mopar blue plate special, too. I will probably get it when I get stage two. And the last of the mods I will do is some kind of short air intake? I think that's what it is called. This is just so that it will sound better. And the final one will be the exhaust. It will be the mopar exhaust. On down the line and into the future, I might get a short throw shifter, but I really don't feel like I need/want that. BTW, for an 05, my car really doesn't have any problems shifting. Once I reached 5,000 miles, it really seemed to loosen up.

On a different topic.

It's funny,,,,I don't know what it is about this car, but I have never had a car that has affected me like this one does. My daughter was saying the other day, "ya know worddad, I have never seen you love a car so much that you have owned." I said, "That's where you are wrong lauren,,,,I don't own this car...it owns me."

It's hard to explain, because I don't really like the headlights on it. I don't think the sides of the car are bulged enough, and I'm not crazy about the back end on it, and I wish it were a coupe. I've had a lot of cars that, I think, have looked better, but I've never had a car that I liked as much.

Do we really love that which is perfect? Maybe it's the imperfection of things that we love. Maybe I like it because it is the underdog. This car is the 5'6 basketball player. It somehow made the team, but no one gives it any respect because of what it is. It's like it always has to prove itself.

I had a term paper that I had to turn in one time when I was in college. To impress the professor, I went out and bought this really cool plastic folder that was colored. I put my paper in that folder and bound it all real nice and neat. I went to turn my paper in to the professor and he looked at it and immediately pulled the binding off of it and yanked my papers out. He held the papers in his hand and looked at me and said, "Don't ever try to impress me with silly things like these folders. There is nothing in life that is more beautiful than a clean sheet of paper." Maybe that's what I like about my car. It's not in what it is, but what it isn't.

And to think,,,,I wanted gold wheels.

 

lol. please tell me you mean BRONZE not gold. And if you're talking about the 5zigen fn01r-c, then they are out of your price range. sorry...

 

i would suggest taking a look here and seeing what different types of rims look like on the car. quite a few of them are availible in bronze. it's a good place to start, as you know then that all the rims fit on the car!