Friday, March 05, 2010 - 01:24 pm, by: Steve Oleksak(Soarin_high)
Are you talking about ET Streets or ET Street Radials?
Supra wheels are quite heavy, however, you have no problem with offsets. Toyotas tend to like high offsets (+40 to +50), so often wheels with the correct stud pattern from Ford, Nissan, etc can be a tight fit. Or not fit at all without rolling guards, etc.
I bought a set of factory *option* Aristo rims which are 16x7.5 front and 16x8.5 rear (standard Aristo rims are 7.5 rear). They are quite light, and will have no problem with the MT ET Street radial 255/50/16 I plan to put on them.
I think Rocket Industries are the main distributor for MT tyres (someone correct me if I'm wrong). You might be able to get your workshop to buy from them at trade price, otherwise you can order straight from them AFAIK.
Sorry I can't be more help with the other queries.
Ben Lipman Goo Roo NT Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
Saturday, March 06, 2010 - 05:26 pm, by: Lew Radbourn(Marlew)
Ben; I actually measure the space i had under the guards and then went looking for a rim to suit. I got close to what i needed. Then it was time to choose full slicks (cloth belts) or semi slick (steel belts) you are not allowed to run both at the same time EG; radial fronts and cloth rears. it MUST be either full radials or full cloth. I went full cloth (as i have plans for the rims later)on the van what i did find was tyre sizes would sit wider than what was stated. eg; 10" tyre would sit 12" at side walls. My rears are a 10" wide rim with a 6.5" back set and a 3.5" front. You can get some amazingly wide rims just by reversing my rims and thay are available. would be great for a wide body kit on a soarer .hehehe yer i have all ready thought about it. with the slick it will grow in dia when spun. On a 26"-28" dia tyre you could expect around 2-3" larger in dia. So in my case i all ready have tubbed the rear so i could fit 265's under the arse when the van was driving on the road. as it happens i was lucky to have enough room to spin these slicks up as well.
Ben Lipman Goo Roo NT Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
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