rims

woodae · Post by **woodae** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:52 pm

i want to get new rims and tires what has been the best upgrade from 14's. Would seventeens be too big. I own a lanos not lowered but soon to be so it will have to fit after the lowering kit.

woodae · Post by **woodae** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:54 pm

What is the difference between coilovers and struts, shox, springs. Also what would be the best for a 1.5 sohc lanos thanks.

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:51 am

wheel/tire sizes that will fit a lanos and will have minimal effect on speedo are:

13" 175/70/13
14" 185/60/14
15" 195/50/15
16" 205/40/16
17" 205/35/17

MMamdouh

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:14 am

Check out the Members section. It has a wide variety of tyre and rim combinations.

17's will fit - with 205/40-17 tyres.

--Tim

Joso · Post by **Joso** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:17 am

You can also have 195/45/16.

CustomLanos · Post by **CustomLanos** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:11 pm

17's with 205/40r17 tires and lowered 1.6" all the way around. I rub when i hit bumps and thats it.

SickDrift · Post by **SickDrift** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:38 pm

http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
Use this page to help determine which tires will be roughly the same diameter as the factoy sizes. This should help alot in choosing which sizes will work, and which wont.

frenchard101 · Post by **frenchard101** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:42 pm

Also make sure you get rims with the right bolt pattern! Your lanos is probably a 4-100

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:02 pm

frenchard101 wrote:Also make sure you get rims with the right bolt pattern! Your lanos is probably a 4-100

you got that right.

MMamdouh

woodae · Post by **woodae** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:23 pm

I like the 17's set up and I still am wondering about coilovers and where would my best place to be to get a lowering kit?

CustomLanos · Post by **CustomLanos** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:19 pm

also....if i could start from scratch i would go with 16's. just my .02

delphis · Post by **delphis** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:33 pm

well I am going to try and have a set of koneg 18's mounted today, I don't have a lowering kit or anything,I think this would kills any hope of getting one.

I was originally planning on going with 16s and possibly 17s, but my roomate said he would sell me the wheels with the tires for 250 so I just couldn't pass it up, if they don't fit I'll re-sell them and get some different ones.

Joso · Post by **Joso** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:31 pm

Can you write the size of the tyres?

delphis · Post by **delphis** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:53 pm

well unfortunately the 18s wouldn't fit I thought he said they were universal 4's but they were universal 5's but oh well back to the hunt for tires and rims again!

joso I beleive the tires were a 215/35 I think I am not 100% sure but I know the side wall measurement was definately 35.

Joso · Post by **Joso** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:13 am

That second number in 215/35 means the size of the side wall measured in percent of the tyre size (75.25 mm in this case). You were looking at a total diameter of 23.9" wich is a lot. If I was you I would get nothing bigger than 17", 17" being quite big actually. 215mm of size is too much too (around 8.5").

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