Hi bro Mi english no good. I dont use CE28, thats why when i put on my rims, FC suffers (some more use wider tyres)

 

Hi, Coupe07. That is the reason I open the tread, need all your expert advice.
1. What is good for 8? 18" or 19"?
2. If I switch from CE28 (no suitable colour) to GC10 (British Black), what size (wide) should I get for front and rear?
3. What is the offset should I use, if using Endless or Gready 6 port Later?

 

Hi

1. There is no such thing as good or no good. Its up to u. If u want looks only, 19" (2 or 3 piece rims), deep dished etc and diff tyre size for front and back will be good. Even 18" rims with wide tyres behind oso veri attractive. Just bear in mind wide tyres weigh more. Best compromise between look and performance is 18", staggered with light rims like VR forged or Prodrive.

2. Up to u as well. We can start at 235 front and rear, 235 front and 265 rear (like bro coupe07 setup?), or some other combo. No hard and fast rule here (but not front wider than rear). Some rims can be protected by a slightly wider tyre (in case u kenna curb). That will depend of rim design.

3. Not too sure what is the specs for the calipers but it depends on the width of the rims u are getting (and hence the width of the tyres) before we can talk abt offset. Decide on the rims first and what tyre size u want be4 talking abt offset. Anyway most rims have a few offset to choose so that shld not be too much prob.

Happy deciding

 

Let me kaypoh here on behalf of Coupe07
1. IMO the decision on 18" or 19" really comes down to performance (assuming budget is not the problem). The bigger the rims, the heavier and thus the greater the loss of performance. Some people don't car about the performance because they find that they don't drive fast/hard anyway, so they want the nicer look of the 19" rims. One bro even has 20" rims! But if you are more serious about performance, stick with the 18". If very serious, can even consider 17".

2. I believe the proper size as recommended by Prodrive for the RX-8 is 8.5" for the front and 9.5" for the rear. With this setup, you will need to run staggered tyre sizes which also means you cannot rotate tires. If you don't wish to run staggared tyre sizes, then get 8.5" all around.

3. Again Prodrive's recommendation is 8.5" with an offset of 34 for the front and 9.5" with an offset of 44 for the rear. This will clear the 6-pot brake calipers in future. Cuscorex is running 18"x8.5x34 and has 6-pot calipers.

Anyway just curious, is your 8 a 4AT, 5MT, or 6MT?

 

To add to above

For CE28N, recommendation from their website for RX8 is
Front 1880 +38 225/45R18
Rear 1890 +40 245/40R18

Dont really understand the rest so dunno if it factor in calipers .

 

Hi, sqflyer. Thanks for the info. really appreciated.
I'm driving 6MT. BTW, where to find the info of prodrive recommendation? in the web? or in forum?

 

It used to be on their website, but since they revamped their website I haven't been able to find it. In any case, it's in their catalog. If you go to any good rim/tyre shop, they should have the Prodrive catalog and the size recommendation for the RX-8 should be on there.

 

here it goes...
http://www.prodrive-japan.com/produc.../matching.html

btw,its the gc10G,im ridin on the older 1,-10E

 

Cool, thanks bro. I suppose -10G is the deep dish one? Since you are using 8.5" in the rear instead of 9.5", what offset are your rear rims?

 

im runnin 8.5/ 34 wif D-disk all round,tat time din tout of runnin staggered.bt the other time,when i gt mi current rubbers fr LS,they shw mi the 9.5/44 -10G.i find tat the ctr hub wasnt deep, but the brim is thou.the recommd size 4 the 8 is usin the S-disk in ctr,it wud b perfect if its a M.nw im lookin @ the new 06H...hehehe

 

Bro Mike

so u still poison urself jialat jialat hehehe. Mi oso 'hiao' go down LS change tyre and saw the C4R (their first set) with 9.5 rear, cannot tahan end up change rims and change tyre and oso changing bodykit and oso dunno change wat else muahahaha

U prodrive supporter gian just change lor ...

 

06H onli out in april leh...wat kit r u runnin on man?

 

Ordered the fujita leh coming next month ....

 

ur ride Tgrey? doin FEED rep huh...

 

yeah... this color combo looks pretty ugly!


dude, yello and bronze is one of the hottest combo's you can get!

 

Endless GOOD! But in case u didn't know, it does squeal VERY loudly. To the uninitiated, it sounds like u run outta pads!

 

Um... quite hard to follow you. Ugly = Hot??

 

but our rx8 yellow is not that yellow....... its a lighter shade....

 

yeah... its the pads combined with ur slotted rotors.... bus brakes lah....

damn loud when the rotors are cold....

 

Where do you guys get the prodrives from? I have been trying to contact different vendors here in america and they havent responded...I want the same rim...GC-10E 18x8.5 34mm.....

 

deep pocket...

 

Too deep... still cant find the $change$