Chris Type R

You're surely only adding an extra 40mm in total when fitting wider tyres though. I am a little bored, so might just go & weigh my wheels.

eSeM

Depends on the wheel/tyre. Some people go for 9" and 255 on the rear.

Go weigh them

Nick Graves

It's like having lead-filled tyres; the car reacts worse to bumps, crashes more into potholes.

The gyroscopic forces mess up the steering and turn-in.

It's like wearing heavy boots and if I'm surprised, if you have mechanical sympathy you cannot imagine the effects; or is that just me?

In the long run, the extra loadings will trash the wheelbearings/bushes and the shell will lose rigidity.

Why do you want to change the wheels - to select different tyres?

oxhouser

Thanks guy's for all the input
as I wanted new wheels for looks only but did not wan't to mess up the feel of the car and don't want to pay the price for correct size, offset and weight I have decided to stick to the OEM wheels for another year (just bought new rear tyres)

Nick Graves

Good solution.

You could keep a lookout for the BBS JDM option wheels (see avatar!)

They're expensive again, because they're like hens' teeth.

markS2kcU

Every Tom, Dick and Charlie has those JDM BBS wheels now.

Can't remember total weight saving but sure its around 10kg's for the whole set.

Nick Graves

That is soooo subtle, it took me a minute or two to spot the difference.

That is the coolest f ckuing-nutter S2000 I have ever seen!