ben@RARE RIMS

Yep...

Put the handbags down chaps, and get back to buying spacers please

Nice one - cheers for sharing

Payment received, spacers already shipped I believe

The courier doesn't do saturday deliveries for a sensible price

They do come with everything needed. The price is fixed at £89.95 delivered per pair.

paypal to wheels@rarerims.co.uk is ideal

No date on the 20mm at present

Bimecc made and supplied them

We have the 25mm spacers, but no 20mm at the moment. Prices are still good

These arrive tomorrow, I should be able to get some pics up of the actual colours we have tomorrow!

Most people would never go for 8.5 on the front, as they're not concave.

I would suggest 18x9.5 ET20 front and 18x10 ET15 rear. That will get you a good flush fit, and concave wheels all round.

Negative offsets will give you a headache for sure, unless you want to mess with the arches.

The legality is down to the tyres, and whether the car is used on the road like it.

In terms of having the wheel stick out like that it's not an issue, the law is concerned with where the tyre tread is - and whether or not it's covered by the arches.

The 'correct' tyre size would be 335/30/18 on an 18x12...

Different strokes for different folks It's a 285 tyre on there.

http://s1005.photobucket.com/albums/af1 ... 12%20350Z/

Needs lowering... but you get the idea

18x12 is not too big an ask for a 350Z

Previously we have these only in high offsets...

Now we have some exciting offsets coming

White with Polished lip

Flat black with Gloss Black lip

Here's some pics:

Rear

Front

Please excuse the colours not being the ones mentioned above - they are not here quite yet but due in a few weeks, so thus far I dont have pics of the actual wheels.

When wheels are made they're tested for the specific PCD.

re-drilling them is not something you should do, as it will be untested and the wheel may not have been created with the additional strength available to support this.

Ha, single crystal casting sounds very exotic!

Time for some iplayer action later me thinks!

It's a feature of ebay, if we take the listings down we are penalised, so when stock runs short the price just has to be changed

They will be back to normal price again soon

I would strongly suggest not having Aluminium nuts anywhere near your car.

Pretty well all the nuts here would be fine:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Rarerims/_i.ht ... d=56611406

As above M12x1.25 thread is what you need.

That's pretty well it Chris

Forged wheels go 1 of 3 ways usually.

They're the same size as a cast version, but lighter due to the increased strength allowing for less material to be used. Strength and load rating usually similar

They're heaver than a cast wheel, but stronger - this is where race and rally wheels fall mostly

The forged wheel is a blingy design that cannot easily be cast, often multi-piece. Weight and strength is similar to a cast wheel, but a more exciting design.

The different techniques do give different properties in terms of stiffness and how they perform under damaging impacts, but both will be strong enough if VIA / JWL certified and tested.

The time to be worried about a cast wheel is when it's made by somebody you've never heard of, and cant find out about. There's a large number of chinese manufacturers who do replica wheels, on alibaba you can get a replica of almost any wheel where a mould has just been taken of another wheel and it's copied, with the original manufacturers markings still in place. These are the scary ones - likely little or no testing is involved. There's no UK / EU standard or requirement for a wheel, so it's up to suppliers to make sure things are fit for purpose. When people are in it to make a quick profit you cannot always be sure on the quality of the products, like wheels with Forged Monoblock written on the side that actually aren't...

Rotas are not forged, they're cast.

Chris 'I you'll find the R&D in Rota wheels is there, they're similar to other wheels sure, but not identical as you cant just copy a forged wheel and make it cast and thus cheaper without making is significantly less strong.

This was quite an interesting read the other day:

http://custompinoyrides.com/2012/03/que ... ta-wheels/

We do have contacts with various other suppliers also, so if anybody finds something specific they'd like we can check availability etc

You're right, 19" multi-spokes aren't about yet

Hopefully by the end of the year there will be something

T2R

Torque

I also think there's room for these:

18x10.5 Force

The Force is new in that size though, so no 350Zs with them on yet