I am dying for some 19's, but the only ones that I can get right now are some ADR's. They look pretty sick but they are about 34 pounds and I don't want to make my car slower in any way.

If anybody has these rims, or any other rims that are over 30 lbs, can you describe to me how your car felt after putting them on? Is it noticeably slower? I am not going to go to the track or anything like that, but I still don't want it to feel slower when I gun it around town.

 

The combination of 19 inch and +30 lb wheels WILL be noticeable!

I have driven similar equipped all stock Z and its a downgrade.....

*edit, changing the final drive will help you get the pep back........
-J

 

Heavy wheels with the wrong offset= a very bad combo

 

Cheap+heavy wheels also = possible hard time balancing. I had 30lb 18's on my last car. Never again.

 

heavy a$$e$ produce heavy $hit, remember that.

 

i sold my volk gts 2 weeks ago and am borrowing some 19" XXR wheels. OMFG the front 19x8.5 is WAY heavier than my rear 19x10.5 gts!!! the steering is a whole lot heavier and sluggish (even tho its already crappy cuz my power steering sucks).

i say wait!

 

I would not get anything heavier then stock which is 26lbs.

 

ughh i just took off my 20's which were about 38lbs a pop not including tire weight trust me its noticable it dont feel like a Z no more

 

If you can't mod it correctly today just wait until you have enough money to do so.

It will be difficult to sell the cheapo wheels later.

 

If they are the ADR's I'm thinking of, I also think they look great. I even thought about getting a set....until I found out how heavy they were.

I ended up with SSR's. -Went from 26lb wheels to 16lb wheels and noticed an improvement.

I can only guess that going heavy will be noticed too.

 

I went from the 18in stocks to 19in AMEs and I don't feel any difference at all as far as power, not sure how much the new wheels weigh. My gas mileage just went down about 3 mpg though

 

Heavy wheels are something we all advice against.

Don't cheap out a Z/G with cheap, heavy wheels.

 

just save a little more and get something that weighs less. don't just buy something to buy something. just my thought

 

Sorry but I do not know what you will and will not notice.

 

I just put 19 inch Tork Imagine's on my car and i cant tell any difference except that it rides and steers MUCH better. Havent noticed any downgrade in speed.

 

Unsprung mass is your enemy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_mass


So is increased rotational mass (moment of inertia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_of_inertia

http://autospeed.com/cms/title_Heavy...6/article.html

http://news.carjunky.com/automotive/...nal_Mass.shtml


Increasing unsprung mass decreases your tires ability to react to changes in road surface. Increased rotational mass means it will take more effort from your engine to spin your wheels/tires (i.e less power available to move the body of the vehicle). In my opinion these effects shouldn't be underestimated if your goal is performance.