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Minimum size for Supra wheels

Postby Emz » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:56 pm

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knows the minimum WIDTH of wheel that I can put on the REAR of a 1997 Supra RZ.

The factory wheel on the rear is a 17 x 9.5.
Could I put a smaller one on than that (i.e 17 x 8")?


Any help would be appreciated.

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Postby rollaholic » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:02 pm

i dont see why you couldnt put 17x4's on the rear, theres nothing to physically stop you.

why you would want to would be a different question, plus you would probably struggle finding alloys narrower than 7 or 8" wide in 17" diameter. though im sure you could find steelies or space savers to replace 17's if you really wanted to.
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Postby Emz » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:07 pm

Yay thanks :)
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Postby deaf_rattle » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:23 pm

you will have to keep an eye on the offsets. dont want something too positive.
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Postby rollaholic » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:07 pm

if its narrow enough that shouldnt be a problem either?
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Postby rollaholic » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:08 pm

i want to know why you want narrow rims though :?
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Postby Snaps » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:08 pm

deaf_rattle wrote:you will have to keep an eye on the offsets. dont want something too positive.


+1

why do you want to go smaller for the rears? (hope I didn't read your post wrong and it's actually for the fronts lol), I mean I can understand for the fronts if you were going to do drag racing etc. less rotational mass, but the rears? wouldn't you want wider wheels to put wider tires and therefore more traction?
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Postby RomanV » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:00 am

I'd imagine because tires in that size are horrifically expensive?
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Postby RollaGT_87 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:56 am

If that's the case just stretch some thinner tyres across the 9.5 rims :D
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Postby tsoob » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:37 am

RomanV wrote:I'd imagine because tires in that size are horrifically expensive?


depends what and where you get them from :)

an 8 inch rim will fit as long as your offset is not too high, its runs at 37p from factory
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Postby xsspeed » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:11 am

hhmm small wheels and tires on the back of a rwd drive car...why would someone want that?

I have some theories but I could be wrong
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Postby Mr.Phreak » Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:21 am

tsoob wrote:its runs at 37p from factory

For a MK3 maybe, but not a JZA80
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Postby thegreatestben » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:29 pm

Factory on my MK3 is +48 or so, The JZA80 SZ wheels i've got are +50. 16x8 all round
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Postby Mr.Phreak » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:35 pm

Sure that's not +38 for the Mk3??
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Postby barryogen » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:55 pm

Snaps wrote: wouldn't you want wider wheels to put wider tires and therefore more traction?


Don't mistake wider tires for more traction, the correlation is not 1:1
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Postby thegreatestben » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:32 pm

Mr.Phreak wrote:Sure that's not +38 for the Mk3??


Nope pretty sure the factory wheels are 16x7.5 +48.
My car is a widebody though
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Postby Emz » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:24 am

The offset for a 97 MKIV is +50.

Just asking coz dragging on my 20"s is ridiculous (not to mention the $2000 each worth of rubber being worn away 8O). So I brought some smaller rims (17") but they are only 8" wide and I was getting worried they wouldnt fit. :oops:

(however bloody tsoob has tempted me with some 9" rims with MTs on them.... mmmmm.....damn u nick!!!)

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Postby Dell'Orto » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:19 pm

Go the 9's ;) Geez you'll probably drop a solid second off your times going from 20's to 17's 8O
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Postby Adamal » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:17 pm

Get something you can stick 165's on so you can pull some mad (and cheap) skidz!
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Postby Emz » Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:44 pm

Adamal wrote:Get something you can stick 165's on so you can pull some mad (and cheap) skidz!


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