240 on chrome wheels?

[Driftin_240sx]

hey i got a quick question or opinion question watever u wanna make it...u can take this to off topic if u want...

how is it that wenever you see jap. drift videos (koguchi black 180) or any jdm body kits they all have chrome wheels with huge lips..and then you ask someone to put chrome wheels on their 240 in the US they are like... HELL NO.. not a bling bling car or somethin like...maybe a waste of time... but just wondering how u guys felt on that.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid50/pcf90021d1160bc68771c3444ba9351d7/fcac9df4.jpg

david

[s13rookie]

its a double standard, if you like chrome wheels get them, forget what some one else says, you are driving the car, not them
its your car, do what you want, dont change yourself for what someone across the country says.

[AKADriver]

well, a few things.

- The lips on those wheels are more likely polished than chromed.
- US car enthusiasts that aren't themselves riceboys are so vehemently anti-rice that they'll bash anything rice-related whether it's attractive/purposeful or not. I've seen people call out a stock WRX STi for being rice because of the wing :rolleyes:
- Decent looking chrome or polished wheels are impossible to get here because of my previous point. Wheel companies will only carry the standard painted styles because anything too shiny will get bashed for being poseur crap.

If my car's paint was shiny enough to match I'd love to run some killer polished wheels.

[s13rookie]

lately i have come to this thought,
" it is rice untill someone in japan does it first"

[Driftin_240sx]

thats nice... ill have to remember that... all though.. i have seen a camaro drift style in japan..so i dont know..

david

[s13rookie]

did the dude driving that camaro in japan have a mullet?

[Driftin_240sx]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid49/ped34824af1e9e806ed3a0eebd20bd2d0/fcb48c06.jpg

david

[s13rookie]

she looks like she is rocking the mullet, j/k, nm. is putting jap stickers on an american iron car in japan the same as putting a spoon sticker on a 5.slow mustang in the states? do they think it is bad taste? do they crave usdm cars, the way we all seem to crave jdm parts?

[KiDyNomiTe]

I will have to agree with do what you want, this whole JDM craze is really kinda gay, everyone assumes if it's JDM it looks nice, sometimes it is true, sometimes it is not, but it's all a personal opinion thing. But most people change thier opinions by listening to those around them.

Like poeple on this board think alike for the most part.

Most of us want something clean looking with power, of course there are some people that don't fit into that category, but you don't see too many people dreaming of wings and outrageous body kits, at least not like you see on some other 240 boards.

Do as you please, don't do so you can please.

Hmm just made that up, and it sounds pretty nice:D , i dunno if the do as you please part makes sense to all, but it does to me so :p

[piratepete420]

The grass is not always greener in Japan. Just look at the s13 silvia front.

[KiDyNomiTe]

Originally posted by piratepete420
The grass is not always greener in Japan. Just look at the s13 silvia front.

Looks greener to me, well they both have theier good points.

[SilviaDriver]

http://www.speedalliance.com/kits/images/vERTEX%20zENKI%20s14.jpg

bling bling?

looks good tho i like it

got that from speedalliance

[Driftin_240sx]

hell yeh.. super sexxxyyy

BlinG BlinG

david

[91blk240]

i think both cars in this thread have nice wheels....when I think of chrome wheels in the US I think of those big ass ones with no lip at all...to me those look really crappy

[misnomer]

Granted, lip > no lip on a hugeass rim, but I really don't like the look of them (big, or chromed). I'm a function over form whore, and I've never seen a reason for large rims but to clear large brakes. I find it pretty unnattractive for a car to be sporting 18" (or more) rims around some wee bitty disks or even smaller drums.

Then again, it's just an opinion, take it for what it's worth :-)

[tnord]

i don't know what's worse.......drifting or chrome wheels.

i'm probably gonna have to say i hate chrome wheels more than drifting; because it's not so much the actual drifting i hate, but the people that do it. chrome wheels are in general ugly as $hit, and equally as heavy, which makes them a total no-no in my book.

this dish thing has gotten out of hand. as usual, the sTuNnA's have taken what was originally a feature of race cars used out of pure necessity, and made it gay. STOP STEALING OUR STUFF, first it was the big wings, then with the body kits, then with the stickers, now with the dished rims?? is nothing sacred??

also, those bLiNgIn dished rims are outrageously expensive. and i think both of the wheels on the cars (and the cars themselves) are hideous.

[adey]

I personally feel that both those wheels are GREAT.
The top one isn't chromed, the only "shiny" (polished) part is the lip. those (burgundy 180sx) are volk GT-7s... only come in 18x8 and wider, only available in 5x114.3. (essentially, "only" RWD cars with enough power to spin those 18s... {turrrrrbo}) Hardly "rice" in the traditional sense. Those (forged) 18s probably weigh as much as an average cast 16 wheel.

The second set of wheels posted (on the Blue S14) are also nice, granted only on select (larger imo) cars (JZX100, Skyline). SSR Agle Minerva... the twisted spokes are, as far as I know, exclusive to this wheel. I've never seen true twisted spokes on any other wheel, SSR or otherwise. Semi-Solid Forging also makes these dubz very light for their size.

I would hit these:
http://www.speedstar.co.jp/collection/sp1/images/02.jpg http://www.speedstar.co.jp/collection/sp1/images/03.jpg

What is it about the people who drift that you find so displeasing, tnord? It's probably the whole host of internet driphtorz and poseurs (as seems common in the US online community) that you're associating to "drifters"... everyone I've met at track events with drift groups seem very friendly, helpful and down to earth! :cool:

[tnord]

yeah, the genuine track drifters i probably wouldn't have a problem with.........it's the sTrEEt sTuNnAs that really get to me.

[AKADriver]

Originally posted by tnord
i'm probably gonna have to say i hate chrome wheels more than drifting; because it's not so much the actual drifting i hate, but the people that do it. chrome wheels are in general ugly as $hit, and equally as heavy, which makes them a total no-no in my book.

What if you took a set of lightweight forged wheels and polished 'em? How is that bad? They take more maintenance to keep clean than a powdercoated wheel, but otherwise they function identically. Chroming adds minimal weight, not much, polishing adds none.

Now, yeah, the typical chrome or polished wheel you can get in the US is an ugly piece of bling-bling jewelry. That's not the chrome's fault, though, they're just ugly wheels that happen to be chromed.

As for the dish thing, I agree... take a look at what some VW people are doing, it's hilarious. 205/45-16s on deep dish 16x9's... :rolleyes: But the relatively low offset and wide sizes you can run on a 240SX without impeding function generally will at least give you some lip. Hell, my stock steelies have like a 1.5" lip!

Final thought: those cars aren't my style either... those 5-spoke, 3pc SSRs are yummy, tho. They look like they're not obnoxiously big, either.

[Dousan_PG]

Originally posted by tnord
yeah, the genuine track drifters i probably wouldn't have a problem with.........it's the sTrEEt sTuNnAs that really get to me.


roflmao

i totally agree!!!
keep it on the track in the USA.

to those who want to get into drifting: support your local events or get some going!

[tnord]

Originally posted by AKADriver
What if you took a set of lightweight forged wheels and polished 'em? How is that bad? They take more maintenance to keep clean than a powdercoated wheel, but otherwise they function identically. Chroming adds minimal weight, not much, polishing adds none.

Now, yeah, the typical chrome or polished wheel you can get in the US is an ugly piece of bling-bling jewelry. That's not the chrome's fault, though, they're just ugly wheels that happen to be chromed.

As for the dish thing, I agree... take a look at what some VW people are doing, it's hilarious. 205/45-16s on deep dish 16x9's... :rolleyes: But the relatively low offset and wide sizes you can run on a 240SX without impeding function generally will at least give you some lip. Hell, my stock steelies have like a 1.5" lip!

Final thought: those cars aren't my style either... those 5-spoke, 3pc SSRs are yummy, tho. They look like they're not obnoxiously big, either.

well once you get into forged polished/chrome wheels, that's gotta be insanely expensive. i had polished wheels back in my more ignorant days (16), and damn are they impossible to keep looking nice. gotta spend about 6hours repolishing about every other month, just not worth it at all. i don't know whether it's the chrome that's heavy, or the whell that gets chromed......but either way, other than a couple BBS models (that are in the $600+/wheel range), i really haven't seen anything resembling a lightweight chrome wheel.

[**rOb**]

BLANG BLANG is nice.... yeah i notice alot of difters on the option vids have blang blang... but dont those rims cost alot????

[ruf]

Ooooh. Didn't notice the Kazama 180SX had the new GT7's on it. Yup, big difference between polished and chrome. On wheels like that, they are usually multi-piece so the hoop is spun and very light. There is a big difference between a bling 19" and a performance 19". Some of the cars you see are also halfway inbetween drift cars and VIP cars. There is bling happening everywhere, not just here.

[ruf]

Originally posted by AKADriver
Final thought: those cars aren't my style either... those 5-spoke, 3pc SSRs are yummy, tho. They look like they're not obnoxiously big, either.

The SSR SP1 Professors are enormous and with a price tag to match.

[HippoSleek]

I had fully polish wheels on my old Bug back in that day. They are a show car only piece - at least if you want them to remain polished looking.
* 6LiN9 ** 6LiN9 *

I like the look on a show car, but on a race car? Come on. The only "race cars" I see them on are ones with a full crew that keep it looking pimptastic for the sponsors. To me, that is like the hallmark of a poseur car. I know... nothing in japan is ricey and everyone drifts or races their car... but really.

Eah, what do I know - I still have residue on my doors from DE's last summer.

[tnord]

by your logic mark i'm as dumb as a doorknob as well.....i still have llittle flakes of shoe polish on my car from various events of last summer.

i will now join in on the Japan 8====D:eek:

[WhiteNissanS13]

Originally posted by s13rookie
she looks like she is rocking the mullet, j/k, nm. is putting jap stickers on an american iron car in japan the same as putting a spoon sticker on a 5.slow mustang in the states? do they think it is bad taste? do they crave usdm cars, the way we all seem to crave jdm parts?

I had some japanese exchange students come live with my family and they were SUPER amazed with my brothers 83 pontiac Trans AM they kept saysing OH! and WOW!

[direb0y]

bling bling

[transient]

Personally, I see chrome wheels and want to puke. polished wheels, on the other hand, look good on the right car. I'd never get them myelf though.