bung
03-12-2013, 12:52 PM
Hey all,
I've been reading through some of stickies on wheel sizes and just wanted to finalize a few things. (I have an 02-03 civic. I live in Alberta, we have bad weather, hence bumpy roads and in the spring lots of potholes.)
I love the look of the Work Emotion CR Kai, but they're out of my budget. I've found a few 5-by-2 group spoke replicas like the Tenzo-R DC5 and the Drag DR31. Frankly I'm afraid the Drag are low quality, so I was looking at the DC5s:
http://www.1010tires.com/images/wheels/super/TenzoR-DC5-blk_lg_super.jpg
( Source: https://www.1010tires.com/Wheels/Tenzo%2BR/DC-5/TAWD51880MLH45B )
From the rim threads I've read most of you are running 17x8, with a few 17x7s around sure. The DC5s only come in 17x7, not 17x8, and have a 42mm offset.
My two questions:
1. If it comes time to upgrade the brakes on my car, (not saying to what or why, don't cringe just yet) should I be concerned about fitment on rims of this size? (This would be for when I'm on the roads and not on a different set I might use for track/drag)
2. Others have mentioned that our cars are "heavy" and I've read that "205s have no place on our car". Using a tire calculator, the size of 225 that wont mess up the speedo, 225/40, has almost no selection. So unless I'm mistaken, I believe I'm forced to look at 215-45R17 or 235-40R17: Comparison table (http://www.1010tires.com/Tools/Tire-Size-Calculator/195-60R15/215-45R17/225-40R17/235-40R17). Is that correct, those are the sizes I should be looking at?
Do you have any thoughts on either of those sizes? How will ride-quality be?
Thanks for any input.
I've been reading through some of stickies on wheel sizes and just wanted to finalize a few things. (I have an 02-03 civic. I live in Alberta, we have bad weather, hence bumpy roads and in the spring lots of potholes.)
I love the look of the Work Emotion CR Kai, but they're out of my budget. I've found a few 5-by-2 group spoke replicas like the Tenzo-R DC5 and the Drag DR31. Frankly I'm afraid the Drag are low quality, so I was looking at the DC5s:
http://www.1010tires.com/images/wheels/super/TenzoR-DC5-blk_lg_super.jpg
( Source: https://www.1010tires.com/Wheels/Tenzo%2BR/DC-5/TAWD51880MLH45B )
From the rim threads I've read most of you are running 17x8, with a few 17x7s around sure. The DC5s only come in 17x7, not 17x8, and have a 42mm offset.
My two questions:
1. If it comes time to upgrade the brakes on my car, (not saying to what or why, don't cringe just yet) should I be concerned about fitment on rims of this size? (This would be for when I'm on the roads and not on a different set I might use for track/drag)
2. Others have mentioned that our cars are "heavy" and I've read that "205s have no place on our car". Using a tire calculator, the size of 225 that wont mess up the speedo, 225/40, has almost no selection. So unless I'm mistaken, I believe I'm forced to look at 215-45R17 or 235-40R17: Comparison table (http://www.1010tires.com/Tools/Tire-Size-Calculator/195-60R15/215-45R17/225-40R17/235-40R17). Is that correct, those are the sizes I should be looking at?
Do you have any thoughts on either of those sizes? How will ride-quality be?
Thanks for any input.