Suspension & 19's

[Harry]

Hmmm... MR2 on 19's. Not a bad idea....



...if you want to plough fields.

...excellent

[Lewis Jay]

If it did look like that then...................

You would be able to do this-


http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/276 ... Video.html

Haha, Lewis.

[Bobby (aka Shaggar)]

Fantastic, may have to order those 22" alloys soon! =D>

[L0rdMike]

Some of you talk like they made they car perfect and any slight change in tyre, wheel or suspension ruins the car alltogether.

OMG dont change tyre profile as its a supercar with standard profile tyres!!11

[drew3555]

Hmmm... MR2 on 19's. Not a bad idea....



...if you want to plough fields.

Look just to show you lot I can take the ribbing & cos the tractor made me chuckle heres a pic of the trial fit.

One condition though you have to agree to be gentle with the comments before you look at the pic!

http://community.webshots.com/myphotos? ... ity=LvPJEg



Yeah ok so it does look like bigfoot now, but the lower profile tyres aren't on yet, the suspension gets dropped by about 60mm & the kit helps alot....honest!

Let the pi55 takes continue!!

[Lauren]

Look just to show you lot I can take the ribbing & cos the tractor made me chuckle heres a pic of the trial fit.

One condition though you have to agree to be gentle with the comments before you look at the pic!

http://community.webshots.com/myphotos? ... ity=LvPJEg



Yeah ok so it does look like bigfoot now, but the lower profile tyres aren't on yet, the suspension gets dropped by about 60mm & the kit helps alot....honest!

Let the pi55 takes continue!![/url]

It looks like a tonka car! I must admit though big wheels are lost on me. I was looking at a car today with 16s on and i just thought they were massive.

[jonb-]

You'll NEVER drop 60mm on 19's!

i've dropped 38 on 18s and there's no room at the front.

Love the big wheels though, i've just put my 18s back on after running on stock for a long while and i can't stop looking at my car, esp in the dark where you just see the rims glowing.

Big wheels are sexy.

[drew3555]

I will, well at the back anyway !!

(you got me thinking now!! Im sure it says 60mm in the build manual)

I am putting the extreme 355 kit on the car. The front wings are replaced completely and the rear wings have about 1.5 to 2 inches of metal cut out & then rewelded together to allow for the lowering. It was so low they had to consider the effect of the angle change on the driveshafts.

They normally fit 18's to the cars but as mentioned above i want to fit these 19's I have & modify the bottom of the spring mount to accept them.

[EarL]

Aaaahhhhh Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Sorry, but that looks ridiculous.

[splashnatz]

i kinda like the "dakar" look of the identikit tractor2 picture ....

FWIW ... i've had 17's, 18's and now 16's on my car. Ride the 17's felt "best", being glued to the road - the 18's won hands down, slip sliding down the road on crappy falkens ... the 16's. The 16's are the lightest and nicest wheels i've had, but until i get some toyo's on, i certainly couldn't say it was better at ANYTHING. So, any wheels with rubbish tyres is worse than any wheel with good tyres.

18's fit nicely (ie no rubbing) with koni and a 40mm drop, but you're right, with the paper thin gap between spring plate and tyre, there's no room for anything bigger.

[shifty]

just thot id drop in my 2p here....

i'm all for big wheels, the bigger the better. yea so the ride is slightly worse, yea so it tramlines, yea so your speedo is a little bit out, so what?! you get used to it, and it looks so so so much better.

so yea, as for the 19s, i think it'll look amazin with the 355 kit, i would even suggest 20s if they would fit. but i dunno if the style of the wheel is gonna suit. i reckon a thinner spoke would look a lot sexier-



i know this ones a TRD, but you get the idea. and those are only 18s i reckon, unless someone knows for sure they're not. i know those rims do come in 19 inch flavour (ps thanx TRDMR2!). but if you're gonna go for a true ferrari thing then i guess you'll wanna go for ferrari style rims.

but i'm with jonb here. imagine a 360 modena or a 996 on 15 inch rims, how awful would that look?!?!

[WinFreak]

Well if those are only 18's than i reckon that 19" would look way too big...

[Driftlimits Performance]

nah mate I'd put 28" chwrome wims on my 2. phat dope innit
maybe even 32"? with a 3metre drop? badass =D>

[EarL]

nah mate I'd put 28" chwrome wims on my 2. phat dope innit
maybe even 32"? with a 3metre drop? badass =D>

ROFL

[shifty]

nah mate I'd put 28" chwrome wims on my 2. phat dope innit
maybe even 32"? with a 3metre drop? badass

see now you're just bein silly

[drew3555]

so yea, as for the 19s, i think it'll look amazin with the 355 kit, i would even suggest 20s if they would fit. but i dunno if the style of the wheel is gonna suit. i reckon a thinner spoke would look a lot sexier-
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These are about as close to the 355 wheel as you are going to get without actually buying the real thing. The one in the top corner is a genuine 18inch 355 alloy. Mine are 19inch jaguar alloys with pzeros on in a jag tyre size. they need lower profile tyres and spacer/adaptors to go on the mr2/355 (hence why its still up on the jack)

http://community.webshots.com/myphotos? ... ity=AxEOID

but if you're gonna go for a true ferrari thing then i guess you'll wanna go for ferrari style rims.

These are ferrari style!

but i'm with jonb here. imagine a 360 modena or a 996 on 15 inch rims, how awful would that look?!?!

Exactly!!! ..... Finally people are starting to undersatnd why i cannot go less than an 18, & why 19s will just look spot on with the kit

[jimGTS]

oh dear god, them 19s make the car look like a toy.
and whoever suggested 20s is a complete nut bag......
the ride WILL be sh*t, it WILL break your back, it WILL look rediculous
you wont be able to go on any bumps and pot holes will tear your suspension apart.

i see no reason for this thread, even after all the comments, you still put on 19s
and yes, 355 kits are for peeps to pose, and i will love it when you pull up next to a real mr2 owner and he laughs at it.
a REAL 355 looks great, and stick on kit just says to me "wona be".

this converison will never get respect from an ferrari or mr2 owner in my opinion.
still your car and all, do what you like.

[jonb-]

oh dear god, them 19s make the car look like a toy.
and whoever suggested 20s is a complete nut bag......
the ride WILL be sh*t, it WILL break your back, it WILL look rediculous
you wont be able to go on any bumps and pot holes will tear your suspension apart.

i see no reason for this thread, even after all the comments, you still put on 19s
and yes, 355 kits are for peeps to pose, and i will love it when you pull up next to a real mr2 owner and he laughs at it.
a REAL 355 looks great, and stick on kit just says to me "wona be".

this converison will never get respect from an ferrari or mr2 owner in my opinion.
still your car and all, do what you like.

The ride on my 18s is actually better for the most part than the 15s as the bigger rolling radius smooths out the minor dips the 15s pick up. Anyway.

Regarding respect, who says he wants it? I respect him for a massive undertaking of modification, far above and beyond what most of us have done. A ferrari owner will laugh at him but as long as he's not going to badge it up as a ferrari, just kit it out why is it anymore ridiculous than the TRD kit everyone seems to love? That mis-represents an MR2 as a box which a fair few people would think is a ferrari if in red (see above example).

Why did you buy an t-bar MR2 if it wasn't slighty for pose reasons? I know i chose an mr2 largely based on the cost and look. I don't know about you but when people see my debadged slightly modified MR2 they're always interested as to what it is and are always disappointed when i say a toyota

Oh, and if you see no reason for the thread why comment!

[jimGTS]

having a t-bar, and fitting a full ferrari kit is a little different jon.
i commented because peeps have told him of there experience why not to fit 19s, and he still has.
i have no problems with 18s at the very max, yours happens to look awsome, so does petej's......
im only giving my opinion after all, i just dont see how you could fit a ferrari kit and not have another motive. if he leaves off the ferrari badges i would be totally amazed, becuase ive never seen any mr2/ferrari without ferrari badges all over it.

[jonb-]

Point taken, but at least he's going the whole hog with the kit and putting the right sized wheels on. I'm sure we'd take the p1$$ even more if he had 16's on a ferrari replica!

After doing 3/4 of a trackday on stock and the last 1/4 on my 18s i can say, from experience, on the track at least the handling difference is NOT as noticable as people make out here. There's a lot more to it than most people, including myself, understand.