I am thinking about buying a set of used Lexus GS400 or IS300 wheels. I like the look of those rims especially when they are chromed out. What do you people think? Will it look odd with Lexus rims? what rims should I get? I also like the chromed Omni Tangos and the Mille Miglia Evo5 but can't decide. I drive a black 2000 GLE.

 

None of them...lexus wheels go to lexus cars...the others i pass.

 

Okay, appreciate your opinion. So the lexus wheels won't fit my max....good to know.

 

My friend has GS400 17's on his Max and it looks sweet. You will have to bore the holes on each wheel because Lexus uses a smaller diameter. Not sure on the numbers, but I'm sure someone will chime in with them.

 

Thanks Sparkymax for the insight. I thought the GS400 chromed rims would look good on a max.

 

I have em, and the less cars that look as good as me the better

If ya gotta get em, they look VERY nice.

Mike

 

I just looked at some GS400 wheels and I don't see how it's possible to bore holes into the rims. The 5 lug holes are in a deep cavity and don't see how you can bore holes in them. I can see boring holes in a flush mount rim but not on these rims.

 

The evos look really good, my friend has em on his max, but they'r heavy, they look good, its up 2 u.

 

Suggestion. Do alot of research before putting rims from another car onto yours.

 

They're talking about boring out the hub of the wheel, not the lug holes. The GS400 wheels will fit, it just takes 1mm of grinding on the hub.


Dave

 

i know 2 people who have GS400 rims - Ants97SE and Kenneth (he changed his id, don't remember his new id). they did the same thing that Dave mentioned

 

Do they have pics of their max with the gs400 wheels? I want to see how they look.

 

sure...this is Ants97SE's ride

 

If you want to go fast, go light. Read this:

http://www.turbomagazine.com/archive...9_wheels.shtml

 

Chrome hubcaps look HOT !!!

 

Speed has nothing to do with the weight of the tires. Acceleration on the otherhand, does. The article you quote is merely a poorly researched and erroneous report of wheel weight and engine power. All it serves to show is the main problem with inertial mass dynamometers and highlights a common misunderstanding of how they work.

Inertial mass dyno's, like the DynoJet family, work by measuring how fast you can accelerate a large heavy drum. This drum, like all rotating objects, has a moment of inertia. The larger (in radius) or heavier the object, the larger the moment of inertia. The dyno drums have a known moment of inertia and by measuring how fast you accelerate them you can determine the force applied (torque) and the power. Herein lies the problem though. The cars wheels themselves have a moment of interia as well. When you accelerate you are dumping power both into the dyno and the wheels. The larger and/or heavier the wheels the more power they soak up (higher moment of inertia). But this ONLY occurs when you ACCELERATE. Once the heavier wheel is up to speed it requires no more or less energy to keep there. It just may take longer to get there though because the heavier wheel stores more energy (think flywheel). For an inertial dyno to work properly you need to determine the moment of inertia of the wheels as well. As far as I know this isn't normally done. And this is why the result of inertial dyno's (and those of the article) can't be trusted completely. To get a completely accurate measure of hp and torque you need a load based dyno but these are much more expensive and take a lot longer to use.

Now having said all this the article does show one result of lighter wheels. That is that lighter wheels WILL allow you to accelerate much faster (and stop faster for that matter). Your top speed though will not be affected (and neither will your power).