kamy0587

So I just saw the post from a vendor selling the 5 axis S5:F wheels. I really like them, ive been looking for wheels for over a week, and thats exactly the design i want at a very good price. But i have some questions and need your help please. I have a 2003 silver 350z track model, with a greddy front lip and nismo rear skirts...Ive only owned it for a couple weeks. I have stock springs and was wondering if these rims would look good on the car??? Will it raise the car?? I dont want to lower the car, id rather spend the money on other mods.

The rims are 19x9.5 +25 offset in the front and ill put 255/35 tires, and 19x10.5 +22 offset in the rear and ill put 285/30 tires.

Heres a link to the ad i found for these rims on this website-- https://my350z.com/forum/wheels-and-...-day-week.html


Ok so my concerns are if these wheels will fit correctly and look flush? Will they raise the car and make it look ugly? And if anyone has pictures of a Z with these rims other than the ones posted on the link i provided. Thanks for all the help. Ill be on this website all day so Please gimme any kind of help you can.

r_seng

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They will looks just fine, I will strongly suggest lowering it for sure though, just my 2 cents. Depending on your taste, there will be a so so amount of wheel gap.

kamy0587

im ok with a little gap...im fine with the amount of gap it has right now with my 18" track rays wheels..so as long as its not more than that

r_seng

iTrader: (9)

Then you will be happy with the 19"s for sure. Lets see some pics when you get the wheels on!

kamy0587

Will do, but im trying to do alot of research before i buy wheels this time, i almost got stuck with some crappy tsw volcanos a few days ago. Actually i think ill run 285/35's instead of 285/30's. Anyone else have any help they can give me? plz dont hesitate to post

idrive_MD

iTrader: (8)

you should be good with everything, those are pretty standard sizes for the wheel size you chose...the 285/35 was much better choice as well.

I plan on running the same sizes on my future wheels as well.

MDK

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Get them. They're amazing wheels.

I can't say what it'll look like on Silver, but here's my Daytona Blue Z with Gunmetal S5:F's:

https://my350z.com/forum/7349686-post361.html

I'd really recommend lowering the car, it really puts the whole thing together. My car is lowered about 1.5" on BC coil-overs, and it looks fantastic.

As far as size, don't go with 35's in the rear, it will make the traction control on the Z freak out. Go with the recommended size if you don't want to have problems. For reference, my car has Nitto Invo's in the recommended size.

With the 35/30 combo on the 19" wheel, you will actually end up with 2% smaller diameter, so you shouldn't have any fitment problems either.

terrasmak

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285/35-19 is the recomended and proper size rear tire and matches a 255/35 front very well.

phorbo007

iTrader: (5)

Go with 285/35 on the rear to stay closer to stock spec, and lower your car for sure. Even though that blue Z is lower there's still lots of gap.

kamy0587

yea your blue Z still has a pretty big gap even with a 1.5 inch drop, thats how much gap my stock car has now. so if i get these 19s it will be even more gap then what it is stock?

terrasmak

iTrader: (8)

same , unless you buy the wrong size rear tires like he did.

MDK

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The important thing is that the front and rear are as close as possible in circumference, to not upset the car's traction control.

30 profile in the back is 1.13% different than the front.
35 profile in the back is 3.18% different than the front, getting close to the area where the car starts freaking out. Aside from that, I didn't want the car to rub.

Your car has way more gap than that if you're running the stock ride height. There is easily a 1.5" drop from stock, and the tires are within a half inch of the stock tires for overall height.

If you'd like, I should be doing some auto-x with the stock wheels this week, I can snap a picture of them for you.

T_K

iTrader: (5)

This isn't correct. The front and rear tires don't share the same overall circumference. The rear diameter is about 3% larger than the fronts for OEM spec. When selecting tires, you spec the overall circumference or diameter of the replacement tire as close to the OEM tire for that corner of the car, not to the tires on the opposing end.

TK

Vertex350

iTrader: (76)

If you want to fill out the wheel wells more without lowering... consider maybe going 20s? Here's mine with 20x9.5 and 20x10.5 on 255-30-20, 275-30-20 Yokoyama's. BUT I'm on Eibach pro kit's and Tokico D Spec shocks.

TRYNALIVEPRO

iTrader: (12)

^ what are your offsets in 20's?

davidv

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I think you are confused about wheel diameter and overall tire height.

davidv

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Front tires are taller than rear.

knils

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If you have a base, enthusiast, or touring AT, the 275/35 in the rear will be better for you

And it seems like the 275/35 would be best if you the touring 6spd, performance, or track as well


So either way, you should switch to a 275/35/19 in the rear, hope this helps

hon

iTrader: (1)

Do u need to roll with 285/35 in the rear?
So now, what is the best combo? 255/35 and 285/35 or 255/35 and 275/35? And what about 245/35 and 275/35?

MDK

iTrader: (10)

Look, the way traction control works is it compares the speed that any one wheel is turning at to the speed at which all the other wheels are turning. This only applies to the wheels that are currently mounted to the car. The car doesn't know what size wheel you incorrectly put on your car, its simply comparing rotational speed of the 4 wheel hubs.

To get it right, you need to compare the size of the NEW front wheel to the size of the NEW rear wheel. The stock tire size is out of the equation. As long as all the wheels on the car at any given time are within ~3% of each other, you wont have problems. 15 inch, 30inch, whatever; as long as they're the same, you're golden.


Here's what you'd be looking at had you done this right: