Looks nice!
You might have problems if you lower it though.

You sure it isn't a red car with white sides?????

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by s2oooboy
[B]Does your car feel slower now with those wheels?

 

Sure is

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by socal28
[B]Looks nice!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by StormBringer
[B]Wow another car with a racing stripe. I thought that I was the only one brave enough to do that. Small compared to mine but happy to have someone in the club finnaly.

 

What u gain in handling, u might give up in acceleration and straightline speed. This has been proven many times. I went with 17's just as a happy median.....but if your happy with the car, u have nothing to worry about

 

Tell you the truth I wanted to get a S2K in the gold that Acura uses for the CL. I just got my Toxxin's and will post a picture in the next hour or so when I download my camera's current pictures. Good choice on your rims though I will be dropping my car in the next few weeks as well so I had to factor that in with my rim choice.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ichibon
[B]

Thanks, who is Rick and how do I get a hold of him? I was thinking of painting the SSR lettering that comes with the wheels badges red, same idea.

 

I think I read it in some issue of Sportcompact Car Magazine. They did a study on how larger wheel sizes (i.e +1, +2) affect top speed, acceleration, and track time.

If I reemmber correctly, the fastest 0-60 was the OEM, then a bit slower (but not by much) was the +1 (17s)...and considerably slower was the +2 (18s).

They measured top speed down the straight away and found that the OEMs were the quickest, 17s were second quickest...and the slowest were the 18s.....the largest gap between sizes (again) were the 18s.

The final result yielded the 17s (+1) had the quickest lap times, then the OEM, and finally the 18s (+2).

The test driver performed the tests for all three rim/tire sizes and was not told what the differences or changes they made on the car before he did laps with the different wheel/tire combo's. He said the best handling of the three was the 18s, felt solid in the corners but didnt mention about lap time or top end speed as he was not told until later....he also mentioned that the car felt heavier with the 18s....said it was like adding weight to the car (100lbs, to be exact i think). ....They also did a test using 25, 50 and 100lbs in the car..and see how it affected acceleration....adding 100lbs to the car yielded similar times 0-60, as the 18s did.

Im sure someone else must have read this article....they could prob. provide more info for us. But all in all, this was my main reason for purchasing 17s, rather than 18s.....I believe Phantom can attest to this as he has observed that with his 18 inch Volk TE37s, his car does not match up well with Stock S2000s with OEM rims.

my .02 cents

PS, I think because your pushing more rubber, engine has to work harder to make the car go...which makes sense becauser your pushing 255/35/18s rather than 225/50/16s...thats 3cm more than stock!

 

Higher rolling resistance certainly plays a factor. But what is more critical is the fact that 16" wheels have smaller moment of inertia per unit mass than larger diameter wheels. To put it simply it takes more energy to rotate an 18" wheels, therefore less energy is available to move the car.