so i am driving in Brentwood (ca) and look what i see!
wow i never knew ppl would have the heart to do this to the legendary Z




I mean whats the point to even buying these rims? BTW they looked like 16"

I swear i have seen these at Americas tire center...and on some fugly rice rockets.
sorry for the bad quality I had my camera phone with me.

 

they are his winter rims/tires

 

even if they were, how could you have the heart to do that it killed the whole look of the car
the OEM rims look 100X's better

 

"winter tires" in CA?? Why would you do that? Does he live on top of a mountain or something?

 

the only ice you would see here is in the freezer...other than that it rains but thats about it
i just dont get how you can upgrade to a smaller size rim that looks nasty as ****
it just makes me mad !!!! lol

 

wuts the big deal? theres z's ridin 20's and bigger, therefore affecting the way the car drives.

 

Maybe he has 'em on for the 1/4 mile track...wicked torque with 16's on a Z.

 

or Any type of motorsport. Lighter wheel with larger tire.

 

I would think he'd have gone wider in back

 

Agreed. It was just a WAG (wild @$$ guess). Not sure how wide you can go in a 16" street tire, but probably not wide enough to get solid traction.

 

hmmm I dunno man, I'd have gone with some light weight 16inch rota's or buddyclub rims instead of those. what are those konig lol?

 

Konig is EXACTLY what I thought when I saw them. Classy!!!

 

Give him a blank check and tell him what he should buy with it.

 

it's a roadster, hard to make it any uglier

 

hi drove a roadster and kill any coupe around me ha ha !!!!

 

ugly kills

 

how do smaller rims increase torque?

 

Smaller and Lighter wheels reduce the opposing forces of spinning the tires, thus increasing effectiveness as outlined below. Heres the 'official' def.

1 : a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion <an automobile engine delivers torque to the drive shaft>; also : a measure of the effectiveness of such a force that consists of the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the line of action of the force to the axis of rotation
2 : a turning or twisting force

 

Another way to think of it is this....If you have a big bolt you need to loosen and you use a wrench that is 6 inches long, it may not budge, but put a 2 foot breaker bar over that wrench (so that wrench is now effectively 2 feet long) and now you've quadrupled the force you can exert on the bolt because you've lengthened the "moment" of your force by a factor of 4. Translate that scenario to the discussion at hand and "the road" is "you". The larger the radius of your wheel/tire, the longer the "wrench" you're giving the road to work against the torque your engine produces.

 

Interrestingly enough, a quick check on the posters of this topic will reveal that those who talk down on these wheels aren't listed as Z or G owners...

GO and get your own cars and get back to us with your perty setup...