That's a great link, thanks for the help. I think the best thing is just to put them on and judge by eye in this particular case. From what your telling me I need to look into a small spacer, I was hoping I could get away with just a 3mm to retain the stock studs but that might not be aesthetically ideal.

Tire size will be 215/45/17 245/40/17. Likely will be Continental DW extremes, I know not the stickiest max tire, but I have my reasons. Front and rears will be rolled and tab relocated, I anticipated that. Thank you for directly answering my question, it's difficult when running a staggered set up trying to get both the fronts and rears to sit the same distance from each of their respective fenders.
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hey man i don't knock on peoples tire choices, my current ones are garbage but they came with the car and i'm in between sets of wheels (for 4 months now, lol)
your sizes sound right on, you may even be able to get a 255 if conti makes em.

you should be fine with a 3mm, the rear just may not be far enough out, still. theres 10mm offset difference in the stock set up, and an inch and a half of width stagger. you only have an inch stagger but more than 10mm difference in offset.

take some test shots down the side of the care from the rear so we can see!

GL

 

Are you saying there will be slight rub with the 255 or 245? I'm planning on going 17x9 +62 all around with everything stock so I'm in the same boat. Just want to fit what I can without rolling/relocating. I'm also thinking about staggering the tire sizes since I'm not staggering the wheels to minimize what I'm losing by running the square setup. Any input on this? Thanks for all of your responses in this thread so far! Lots of good information, just haven't made it through 29 pages so I apologize if you've already answered this question elsewhere.

 

Are you saying there will be slight rub with the 255 or 245? I'm planning on going 17x9 +62 all around with everything stock so I'm in the same boat. Just want to fit what I can without rolling/relocating. I'm also thinking about staggering the tire sizes since I'm not staggering the wheels to minimize what I'm losing by running the square setup. Any input on this? Thanks for all of your responses in this thread so far! Lots of good information, just haven't made it through 29 pages so I apologize if you've already answered this question elsewhere.
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you will have more space/ be safer with the 245. idk if you would rub on either, i don't think so. with a +62 the worry isn't about rubbing the fenders, its about rubbing the control arm on the inside. with 255 that bulges, you may touch on full lock turns. you shouldn't need a roll. the relocating is only on the back.

i ran a 245F and a 265R booth on a 9" wide wheel. i loved it. crazy turn in, lots of grip, great feed back. i was just running it on too aggressive of wheels (9+35 4x)


any time man, post up your progress!

 

Hi all,

Just bought my S2000 and it came with BBS LM 18" wheels, looking for new tires to replace the chinese crap rubber that was on them
fronts are 18x8 ET40 with 215/40 tires
(rear 18x9 ET42 with 235/40 tires)

I work at a car dealer and would get a good price on RE050:s but the 215/40 size is ALOT more expensive than 225/40 for the fronts, would i be able to get the 225/40s without rubbing?
Car is lowered 30mm with springs. Gonna need my tires changed since i dont wanna run the crap chinese tires on the track...

First post

 

i'm thinking about changing out the outer lips barrels of my 18x9 +64 rears and so far I have 2 options:

1. Change to 2.5" lip and it will bring my rim to 18x10 +51
2. Change to 3" lip and it will bring my rim to 18x10.5 +45

Currently have 245/35 tires on them.

Would option 1 be OK without any fender mods, but I would need a roll/bumper relocation for option 2?

 

Pretty sure you would need the roll and tab relo for either one. You are adding 1.5-2 inches to the otter part of the wheel and lowering the offset from the stock by about 12 mm or more. Option 1 may be able to get away with some addition camber but I think you are better off just getting them rolled. Also not to mention the additional tire you will be dealing with.

 

Yep I concur, will need to roll with both options. If they were say +70, then you wouldn't.

 

Ok, so I went and did a few calculations and came up with these numbers...please correct me if I'm wrong...

AP2 OEM
F = 17x7; +55; ~2"
R = 17x8; +65; ~2.5"

So, that means, the AP2 OEM rim extends (from center) ~1.5" and ~5.5" deep and the rears extends (from the center) ~1.75" and ~6.75" deep.

I'm looking at a set of non-staggered 17x9 +40 (them Gram Lights 57Xtreme Gun Blue look so damn good). If my (rough) calculations are correct, that means it will extend (from the center) ~2" and ~7" deep. I know the rear would be ok but would the front be OK to not have it rub from full-lock turning?

MY AP2 is otherwise unaltered from stock. I will, however, look to lower it at some point (roughly 1.5"-ish or so--and I use that term loosely).

 

thanks guys what about this:

Move my 18x9 +64 to the front and I'll get different set for the rears. Would I rub with 245/35 or should I go to 235/35?

I'm planning on keeping my S2K forever and don't want to roll my fenders at all

 

Rather than create a new thread, does anyone have wheels in the following fitment:

17x8.0 +32 in front
17x9.0 +38 in rear

Would like to know kind of soon, Blitz Type 01 CX

Thanks