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Same boat as you, but looking for Turbo IIs for NB. Be careful with after market route. I thought I might save a little $$$s and weight by going with a flow forged wheel through Vivid Racing. Vivid Racing recommended the MRR (around $500 each) as basically same wheel and quality as HRE FF01 which they said was back ordered and the fit and finish on the MRR was so bad my wife didn't want them on her car so they just sit taking up space after only 2 days use . . .
My rears are 19"x11.5" et 62 and factory fitment is 19"x11" et 51 so bolted directly on, you'd get this
where the outer edge would be 4.7mm further in and the inner edge 17.4mm further in. Note that my Champions are 0.5" wider which will help the tire to sit flatter for increased contact patch, vs putting the same tire on an 11" wide wheel and you have to factor this width difference into the offset comparison, which is why I like to use the calculator at www.willtheyfit.com like I did here.
Also, most people think the factory offsets are too conservative and add about a 15mm spacer in the rear. Doing this with my wheels would have the inner lip about 2.4mm closer to the strut (should be plenty of clearance for that) and push the outer lip out about 10mm, which would also improve the look and match it up to the front.
For comparison to your stock current wheel, my fronts are 19"x8.5" et 53 which I think looks just about perfect on these cars and is actually the same fitment used by Porsche for their GT3 wheels. The fronts of these cars, whether NB or WB are the same.
Those Champions and the front offsets look good and definitely look far better than the et 45 that some wheel companies spec which look ridiculous with some wheels. I think a 3 inch shim or 5 inch spacer on an et 53 would be the most without getting clown like.
Those Champions and the front offsets look good and definitely look far better than the et 45 that some wheel companies spec which look ridiculous with some wheels. I think a 3 inch shim or 5 inch spacer on an et 53 would be the most without getting clown like.
Doug is having metric system issues this morning - LOL. Pretty sure he means mm.
I agree though. I had some fronts on my car at one time that were a 19"x8.5" et 42 that looked like this, which was ridiculous, and made the car very twitchy at high speed when changing lanes on crowned interstates (which are pretty much all of them for drainage).
when I ordered my custom Forgelines, I went with the same size wheel but with an et of 50, which IMO is the ideal # so Doug's info about a 3-5mm spacer is spot on and would look like this.
Also, anytime you install spacers, make sure they're the type with the hub-centric lip and use longer wheel bolts. Adaptec Speedware is my go-to spacer company as they offer the lip on even their thin sizes and World Motorsports for Ti Lug bolts,
Lol, sorry . . . Up most of the night. My 20 year old daughter fell off a mountain in Colorado yesterday at 7:00 p.m. and search in rescue did not get to her until 2:00 a.m. ish and then another 45 minutes to get her to a hospital and stabilized . . . Exhausted and try to keep my mind occupied.
Lol, sorry . . . Up most of the night. My 20 year old daughter fell off a mountain in Colorado yesterday at 7:00 p.m. and search in rescue did not get to her until 2:00 a.m. ish and then another 45 minutes to get her to a hospital and stabilized . . . Exhausted and try to keep my mind occupied.
OMG - sorry to hear that and good luck to you, her, and the family.
