How stretched is your dish?
No, I did not make a mistake in the title. It was done deliberately because of these:
SSR Mk II 14 inch 10J/11J
Big deal: a pair of 14 inch 10J or 11J rims. What has this got to do with stretching then? Well have a look at this then:
SSR Mk II 14 inch 10J/11J with stretched tires
The seller gives you two (175/60 Continental EcoContact) stretched tires as a bonus!
SSR Mk II 14 inch 10J/11J with stretched tires
But there are some catches with these rims:
– seller doesn’t know the exact width (10J or 11J?) and offset
– one rim has kerb damage on its shoulder (has been polished away)
– mounting bolts are not included
[ Found on AYJ ]
by banpei with 1 commentHow deep is your dish?
This week another nice set of SSR Formula Mesh rims:
SSR Formula Mesh 15 inch 10J white
These rims are 15 inch in diameter and 10 wide. The offset is unknown, but the seller thinks they are between -15 and 20, in other words: somewhere in the middle. ?´?????
The center of these rims is painted white and it really looks great on these rims! Makes me think of the doridori rims a friend of mine has. ?´???
SSR Formula Mesh 15 inch 10J white
The seller suggests you should replace the tires: they are old and worn. Looking at the remaining thread on this tire I would not put them under my car…
SSR Formula Mesh 15 inch 10J white
You can see the lip on the inside is also quite wide. Compare this to the other Formula Mesh rims we posted a month ago and you will see they are roughly the same size and width. The other Formula Mesh have a much more positive offset than these and therefore having a much wider lip.
How stretched is your tire?
Is this a new regular? Well, actually I was planning to do a deep dish but last monday we got a comment from TOJI004 that he stretched 195/50 tires on 10J rims. My remark was that I can only imagine what it looks like! My best guess it comes a bit near this:
RS Watanabe 16 inch 8.5J with 175/60 stretched on it
You can really see the inner and outer shoulders on this rim standing out from the tirewall!
So alternating between deep dish and stretch tires is a nice addition to these series. ????????(???)??????!!!!!
I posted these pictures on my own regular blog last week as well. This Minkara user wanted to find the perfect match for his Carina AA63 Wagon and what else to do with a set of 16 inch 8.5J and 8J RS Watanabe rims than to fit several tire sized on them to see how they look stretched on those rims:
Compare several tiresizes on these RS Watanabe 16 inch 8J and 8.5J
The tiresizes are from left to right: 195/50 on 8.5J, 175/55 on 8.5J, 175/55 on 8J
This is how the 175/55 on 8.5J looked:
RS Watanabe 16 inch 8.5J with 175/55 fitted on Carina AA63 Wagon
And what did he choose? 175/60 turned out to be the perfect match!
by banpei with no comments yetHow deep is your dish?
This week we have another set which is almost wider than high in diameter: this SSR Mk I pair is 13 inch in diameter, but 12J wide!
Look at how wide that rim is: almost two packs of cigarettes would fit in that lip!
Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures, but the auctions.yahoo.co.jp ad only had small pictures
by banpei with no comments yetHow deep is your dish?
Some time ago I found the website of the owner of the Japan Buttigiri Special. He posted some pictures of rims on his site, but most of them were a but odd:
Well, what better way to show how deep your dish is than by comparing it with your cat? Or if you don’t have a cat, a dog will do as well:
Less deep dish mesh rims with a dog
If you are interested in more pictures of the Buttigiri owner and friends, you can find them here:
Buttigiri owner and friends