Alright well I finally got the money up for some rims for my BB 8... but finding it quite hard to find rims that are black which aren't 18 X 7.5 ..... now to my understanding the steering would be affected dramatically with 7. 5 correct...or at least that is wha i was told....

Prospect Rims:

Falken Koblenz

( Also if anyone here has pix of their car wit black rims i'd appreciate it )

 

OEM's Powder Coated.

 

Check out the Selling/Buying forums...

There is a guy selling some black Axis wheels...

 

I meant to ask u a while ago about ur powder coated rims...how much did u wind up spendin and how is the quality holding up....

 

$275 / set of four. Holding up well but they will not see any snow / salt .

 

well i live in florida... so snow wont be a problem at all... just keepin them clean... i dont think i've washed my car in weeks... it rains EVERYDAY...

 

and also how did you go about the whole process with taking off the tires and storing your car while they were powder coating the rims...

 

you can get a set of kazerra kda's (i think thats what their called) from the tire rack they come in 18x8.5 and for an option in the rear you can do 18x9.5 ther is a pic on here of the chrome ones but they coem in black too very hott wheel in my opinion

 

blk on yelo looks nice

 

check this

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...6&page=1&pp=15

or this

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...&highlight=gt7

 

or the buddyclub's. i think a few people on this forum has them. this thread has a nice ti w/ the p1's

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ght=buddy+club

 

I have three sets of wheels These were an un-mounted set of OEM's I got off Ebay. You can also get oem's here from time to time. I also have a set of 17's with snow tires and stock rims with track tires on them. Having a large basement is nice.

 

I don't know who told you the steering would be affected dramatically with 7.5 wide rims but that's completely false. I have 18 x 7.5 on my car and the steering is no different than it was with 18 x 8. The advantage of the 7.5 is that the tire now sticks out past the edge of the rim just enough to protect the rim from damage if I accidentally scuff a curb while parking. Steering is fine.

 

I'll have to add to this about steering...

Lower wheel width normally translates into lower tire width... But not always... You can run some tire widths with multiple width wheels... aka the 225/45/18 stock tires on an 18x8 or 18x7.5 wheel

Tire width has a direct effect on grip... You go down on width, and you lose traction/handling.

Therefore, most people see a reduction of wheel width to be a negative for handling, though not always true. Contact patch is the name of the game.

 

you can sometimes run crazy tire widths on any size rim, on my s13 i had 245-45's on 7in wide wheels and 245-50 on an 8 in the back, worked perfect, right now i'm running a 235 on the back of the 8 w/ a 9in wide rim, stretching a tired can give diff efects. now i have 235-45 on an 8 in the front and it grips well, and the same size tire on a 9in wide wheel, its pretty stretched out, this make the car really rear end happy, but its very controlable cuz the sidewals hardly move, but on the 245 on the 6in wide wheel the tires rolled over a bit, but they were a stiff sideway so it just stuck, on the 8 i may try 255's next, we'll see