MRR GF7 Wheels Installed

[No_Dominion]

Just had these put on, and I'm incredibly happy with how they look. I was a little hesitant to go with a set of completely black wheels, but I think they work really well.

[yousefnjr]

Matches the car well with the other black accents and that fantastic paint lookin good

[E92hopefully]

looking great!
what are the specs?

[Digs]

Looks much more menacing with black wheels!
Fitment looks really good as well.

[No_Dominion]

[QUOTE=yousefnjr;19723690]Matches the car well with the other black accents and that fantastic paint lookin good[/QUOTE

Thanks, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.

Originally Posted by E92hopefully

looking great!
what are the specs?

Front: 18x8 et35
Rear: 18x9 et23

I wanted to keep with 18" wheels (roads suck in Indiana, lots of potholes,) but u wanted to bring the wheel edges out just a little further, so I went with 7mm less offset than stock. I think they are just right now, and when I do a little drop with coilovers, there won't be any risk of running.

Originally Posted by Digs

Looks much more menacing with black wheels!
Fitment looks really good as well.

Thanks! Crazy how much of a difference going to an all black wheel can make.

[Digs]

yep that's right, when you drop it a little, neg camber will increase so they will tuck in even more. I was surprised how much my wheels disappeared when I dropped mine. Ive been waiting for you to put a drop on your coupe! Have you decided on a coilover yet?

[No_Dominion]

Originally Posted by Digs

yep that's right, when you drop it a little, neg camber will increase so they will tuck in even more. I was surprised how much my wheels disappeared when I dropped mine. Ive been waiting for you to put a drop on your coupe! Have you decided on a coilover yet?

I've been wanting to put a set of coilovers on for a while, but had some other mods I wanted to get done first (namely headers/intake/tune.) If I hadn't been forced to drop a chunk of change to address broken VANOS exhaust hub tabs earlier this year, the coilovers would already be on.

Additionally, I also have a couple of other hobbies/money pits that vie for the attention of surplus income. Photography and my aquarium are both rewarding, but definitely not cheap.

As far as the specific coilovers, I'm fairly certain I'm going with an adjustable set with Swift springs and camber plates made by Status Gruppe Tuning. After the positive experience I had with their headers, as well as tons of awesome reviews from the E46 M3 crowd, I think they'll work out nicely. Here is the link to the set I'm looking at: https://www.statusgruppe.com/collect...s-coilover-kit

[SaltyNC]

Originally Posted by No_Dominion

Additionally, I also have a couple of other hobbies/money pits that vie for the attention of surplus income. Photography and my aquarium are both rewarding, but definitely not cheap.

No_Dominion, that's cool you do aquariums. Saltwater or fresh? I did a tiny 6.6 gallon cheap bookshelf acrylic/plastic planted tank aquarium as an experiment to see if I would enjoy it. I shut it down, but I plan to do a high end ADA tank at some point.





This video shows a quarter for scale. It was hard to maintain the water parameters in such a small aquarium.

Sorry, didn't mean to jack the thread.

Salty

[No_Dominion]

Originally Posted by SaltyNC

No_Dominion, that's cool you do aquariums. Saltwater or fresh? I did a tiny 6.6 gallon cheap bookshelf acrylic/plastic planted tank aquarium as an experiment to see if I would enjoy it. I shut it down, but I plan to do a high end ADA tank at some point.

This video shows a quarter for scale. It was hard to maintain the water parameters in such a small aquarium.

Sorry, didn't mean to jack the thread.

Salty

Right now just a planted freshwater, 72g bowfront. It used to be a dedicated Discus tank, had 6 huge, fully grown adults. Then disaster struck while I was out of town for a couple of weeks, and the tank crashed resulting in their deaths. Right now I have it stocked with a few angels, some South American puffers, red serpae tetras, some skunk loaches, and 3 panther crabs.

Your tank looks awesome, aquascaping like that is always interesting to look at. I can imagine it would be difficult keeping it steady with that small of size, bigger is definitely easier. Except for when one of my two canister filters dies, like happened yesterday.

[No_Dominion]

A few more pics. Still just from my phone, though. I'll be doing a proper shoot again here soon.

[SaltyNC]

Thanks on the aquarium. So sorry your filter died. It was constant work keeping the small one going. Lots of water changes.

Wheels and new tires look nice. I think the Z4M looks equally good on 18s and 19s. Do recall the size of your PSS tires? How much of a drop are you planning?

Salty

[No_Dominion]

Originally Posted by SaltyNC

Thanks on the aquarium. So sorry your filter died. It was constant work keeping the small one going. Lots of water changes.

Wheels and new tires look nice. I think the Z4M looks equally good on 18s and 19s. Do recall the size of your PSS tires? How much of a drop are you planning?

Salty

Yeah, I bet you had to do water changes all the freakin time. Plus testing probably daily. I don't even test my tank anymore, I've had it on the same w/c schedule as soon as my levels stabilized years ago.

I think our cars look better with 19s, but I don't want to go to a lower profile tire with how the roads are here in Indy. I destroyed a set of 19s on a car years back from all the potholes.

I'm running nearly stock size tires, 225/45 front and 265/40 rear. As far as the drop, I don't really want to lower more than 1/2" or so. I want the coilovers more for improved driving than for looks.