????? Cardana your stance looks nice...It's slightly raked..How's the handling feel? Very confident....?

 

yeah raked to the back The handling is nice, it's much better than before. But you need to remember I only have 6.5" wide wheels with a 215 tire, until I get wider wheels/tires with less sidewall it's only going to feel so good IMO.

 

make sure to get some nice light wheels tho... hate to see all that work to go waste due to excessive unsprung weight

 

I have been looking for Kosei K1 racing wheels for over a year now. Don't worry...I'll do it right.

If anyone knows of any 16 or 17's that are at least 7.5"s wide and an offset of under 40 then please let me know.

 

350z 17" wheels are 7.5+30 and 8+33 i think. mustang cobras like the ones i have for my z are 17x8+32 but as far as i'm aware both are >20lb/ea. my 17x7+22 chrysler wheels are 20lb exactly but they are designed for an 9/16" stud (14.5mm) so the lugnuts sunk all the way down into the acorn taper. If i had the longer capped-style lugnuts it would have been fine tho.

 

I know other things will fit, but I am only looking for certian wheels. Plus with the Z wheels I would not be able to rotate those. I don't want wheels that are not the same width or offset. If I need to I will use wheels spacers to achieve the correct offset, at least that way I would be able to rotate my tires and have different offsets in the front and back.

 

ohhh so when you said 16-17" at least 7.5" wide you meant just for those K1 wheels?

 

yes..................

 

understood. my bad

 

Confirmed. You will feel the extra rotating mass of the Mustang wheels during acceleration and it will slow you down with out using your brakes all that much

You could go the Z route and get four fronts, that way they're all the same size and you can rotate them... I know others have done it...

Screw it man just get these....



18.1lbs

 

the 17x8 cobra wheels are way lighter than the non-track Z 18s.

 

why fronts? as a wise hawaiian surfer in a Pontiac Grand Prix commercial once said.. "aoohah lah ooah"... "wider is better"

 

Sorry for not being explicit.... 4 fronts or rears depending on the sizes that you wanted to deal with

 

My stock rear swaybar mounting bracket recently broke, after a few years of driving around on upgraded (Suspention Techniques) front and rear swaybars (with stock "soft" GXE springs). The sheetmetal bracket broke in the form of a "washer" shape, which I TIG welded back into place.

But rather than just weld it up as good as stock, I took inspiration from Matt's
"Blemco" rear link design, and welded a chunk of 1.5" angle iron as reinforcement. I left the stock bracket in tact and welded the angle iron right next to it to reinforce it.



I'll have to get a little paint on there as well to protect the bare welded metal. It is possible that interference between the rear swaybar and my custom exhaust/muffler caused the failure, so I will need to adjust the exhaust system, and also maybe throw a couple needed motor mounts to reduce exhaust system movement as well in the near future.

My stock rear sway links and their spherical joints are however still going strong... no signs of play. Hope this info might prove useful to someone!

 

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but this is what I need to do. Gotta love that search button.

 

For now just going to tack a couple of 1/2" washers on to existing tabs until I can get blehmco.