However the wheels on a 20vt were designed to fit over the calipers, you still may need spacers to get these wheels to fit !
I've been there and done this already, it took me 3 trips to the wheel shop before we got the right sized spacer to fit my alloys on.

Worth it in the end though.

No worries, Still got my 5mm spacers from the last set. Nothing impossible. 6days left

Btw, nice one...

Is there a national company who can do this?

please tell me the wheelcompany that actually make wheels with tolereances so small. one milimeter per hole is just so little. Then you have the tolerance on the hole itself (roundness). I've used 4x100 on 4x98 with normal skrews and never ever ever cracked a skrew or ever heard of anyone done this.
one milimeter is so small that it doesn't matter.

So re-pitche your 4x100 to 4x98 is just a waste of money and time.

realy, imo 1 mm is a hell of a lot of difference when it comes to thread angle, and size etc, cross thread springs to mind immediately

You can tell you're not an engineer! 1mm is a hell of lot! I've no doubt that you'd be able to fit 100mm pitched wheels on 98mm pitch hole pattern but you'd be introducing a lot of stress into the wheels and bolts.
You can bet the tolerance used when drilling the wheels or hubs is more like +/- 0.1mm.

The bloke that had my coop before me said that .

4 new hubs 16 new wheel bolts and I had to get the alloys re drilled so the bolt hols was round again . Lucky rog had a silver coop braking at the time so I got some of the hubs off that .

So really no one knows exactly how much the tolerance can vary... Well I do agree that it should be +/-0.1mm. But we dont know, do we? Talkt to my mate who is an active streetracer who drives with 4x100...no problem there. My opinion is with wobbly bolts you're on the safe side and don't need to worry about the wheels comming of.

I have a 20vt and wheels with 4x100 and wobbly bolts (and 3mm spacers in front) no problems what so ever with anything :-)

http://www.garaget.org/show_ext.php?car=23306&image=267867

Exactly, wobbly bolts is a completely different affair.
Std. bolts will actually bend in a 100x4 wheel. Talk about stress. They may last a while but no doubt a bad thing.

Smooth what make of alloys have you got - i like ? and are they 17's or 18's ?

Sprintsteve: They are 18" and in your country I think "dare" has it and "icon" as well. It says "racing power" on mine.

Smooth, that's one nice coupe you've got there

It looks brand new!

Thank you zak! I love my coupe so much and I take really good care of it :). Fiat actually had it as a show car (orginal) and It hasn't been driven that much, about 40000km

Great thread, been paying mucho attention as I'm not keen on the huge arch gaps around the standard wheels. But whilst there are loads of examples of 17" or 18" wheels, there is very little mention of the actual tyre sizes fitted to them. Can you ladies and gents supply this info. too?

To keep the rolling radius the same you should get smaller sidewalled tyres, but this doesn't address the arch gap. So, are you custom lot rolling around with speedos reading too fast or too slow now? (but with nicely filled wheelarches).

A spot of cyberskiving the other day led me to this interesting link to calculate tyre sizes for different size rims. http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

Cheers.

hello,
i'm french, sorry for my bad english.
I search this type of alloys during long long time :

18/8 Inch Dare V2 Hi Power Silver Alloy Wheels With 225/35/18 Tyres.

I see SmOOth have this beautiful alloy on his coupe...

PLEASE SmOOth tell where you found it because actually i don't find it anywhere in europe...
Thanks

Hi pascal20vt

Thank you! That is exacly the setup I have. 18x8" with 225/35 tires.

I found them on many places in England but no one who had'em in stock wanted to ship outside UK

I almost gave up my search for them until I contacted this swedish wheel retailer http://www.falgexperten.com. Im not sure they can help you because it is in Sweden but you should email them anyway

btw, I think Lenso (Japan) is the original manufactor of the wheels but im not sure.

Good luck

Hi smooth,

I don't find the alloys on : http://WWW.falgexpreten.com ????
But i confirm, the DARE V2 are the same that LENSO MUSE !!!

I found dealers but only in AUSTRALIA

Can you give me the dealers websites in your country because i'm going to be MAD if i can't buy them ....

If necessary i can come on train to london or other town to make the deal ....

other question : where find woolby bolt and have you pics of it ???

Does anyone know where to get Momo Sports from?

Its the twin 5-spoke design - I believe Steve^ had them on the ex-L&M LE

Looking for 18"

na no more mate,only get them some times on ebay but very rare,but they are stunning wheels http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/cowboykarl/patsphotos035.jpg

pascal they only had the 17" on the website, i had to ask them for my 18". I suggest you do the same and ask them if they could get a set for you..

http://falgexperten.jetshop.se/

they also have MSN so you can speak to them directly

falgexperten@hotmail.com


//Tompa

Hello SmOOth for your help

I found my futur wheels : CESAM DAYTONA 7.5/18 in 4/100 Look exactly the same as yours...
In a shop near my house !!!

Any one know if the Azev AS will fit, how much they cost and where I can find them. I've been trying google but can't find a price.

I dont know if they'll fit, although I think they're possibly what CDek had fitted to his pearly white coupe. But then he doesn't mind wobblies and spacers... anyway, try these guys:

http://www.dtmotorsport.co.uk/

I've just spent a while ploughing through this entire thread and from reading some of the comments I'm not entirely sure that some people are very clear about the whole business of offset.
At the risk of teaching those who do know about these things how to suck eggs here goes....

'offset' is the distance in mm between the mounting face of the wheel and the plane through the centre of the wheel. It has no bearing at all on whether your Brembos will fit behind any given type of wheel design. The only thing the offset will change is the track - reducing the offset effectively moves the tyres outwards increasing the track and vice versa - this is obviously going to have an influence on handling and could result in tyres rubbing somewhere if taken to extremes.

By fitting spacers to clear the Brembos you are effectively moving the mounting face closer to the centre plane and are thereby reducing the effective offset of the wheel. What this means is that you have to bear in mind the net result of offset and spacer width if you want to maintain the same track.

Example calc.
Assume std offset = 35mm
Your chosen wheel design requires a 5mm spacer to clear the Brembos.
So, you need to buy an ET40 fitment to retain the same track.

Similarly if you have already bought ET25 wheels and find you have to fit a 10mm spacer then you effectively have ET15 wheels which means you will increase your overall track by 40mm - flared wheelarch time

I really liked the look of your wheels Jimbo :P... sooooo.. I went to the Lenso wheels website http://www.lensowheels.co.uk

Apparently, they produce wheels with the correct offset and as I don't have huge brembo callipers, direct fit for me.. and spacers for all you 20vt boys and girls...

btw... I like these http://affilate.potn.com/images/lenso/imlenso2006_S73.jpg and quite fancy them for my coop... 18"... can I please invite opinions?

They were the first ones a spotted on their and wondered what they'd be like on the coupe

Of subject just a tad

Phoned an alloy place and was told the 17"lenso's would fit with a 15mm spacer
Phoned another about the same wheel and they said it wouldn't work.

Confused I am

The only way to see what wheels will fit it to go and try them on the car.

On the subject of alloy wheels, can anyone identify these beauties! I've got to have them for my 20VT

http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g198/sandro_dg/