New 13" Wheels from a Honda

[MONSOON]

Is that an air horn where the fog light used to be?

[BUSTIVA]

Is that an air horn where the fog light used to be?

LOL No they're brake cooler ducts

[Arnie]

that looks good i painted mine up red too, i didnt get 25hp tho

thanks! kinda have the Jamaican color theme goin' on there. :lol: well, i do have all those TEIN stickers they provide with the coilovers. That will certainly net me the desired HP!

so i re-test fitted my honda wheels last night. hmm, seems they do clear. fairly close. definitely no balancing weights on the inside lip or rim surface. maybe it was because i didn't have everything totally bolted up that things didn't line up.

so, how much clearance are you guys getting with 13" wheels with the aspire setup? it is amazing how much thicker/larger the Aspire automatic rotors are.

I think i will definitely investigate a stud kit in the future though. It truly is a pain juggling the wheel and bolt and rotor on install.

[graywolf_14]

Ok your having problems with the rims fitting with the aspire brakes so how about with the capri since they are bigger.

[Arnie]

Pics of tight tolerances

so how close are your 13"s to contacting things? This close?

[Arnie]

Ok your having problems with the rims fitting with the aspire brakes so how about with the capri since they are bigger.

I'm picking up some Miata Daisies this weekend. So that will fix things for sure. Though I'm curious what other people's experiences have been with running 13" wheels on the Aspire setup?

Once again, these are 13x5", ET40 using Automatic Aspire parts.

[Arnie]

though they would look good on the car once on

[sasquatch]

ya mine have a little bit more clearance... ^ thats just crazy close

[Arnie]

Yeah, its weird. Well, nothing a spacer won't solve. I wish i had done a more careful comparison of the festiva knuckles compare to aspire as well as the kyb strut's lower clevis compared to the TEIN. Wondering how different the shapes are.

Actually, the really crap thing is if I use my camber bolt the wheel will probably contact the strut if I don't use a spacer. Maybe even if i do. I'll see how much neg camber I have once i have it on the ground.

[graywolf_14]

Yeah they would look great I love the whole rally look.

[graywolf_14]

But the miata wheels would look sweet to. hey remind me of the whole panasport wheels that you see on minis. I think a festiva with fms bumpers and vw sideskirts with fender flares and panasport wheels would look amazing.

[Arnie]

Yeah, I would prefer the panasports but its just too much money to spend on the festiva. My friend had panasports on his festiva back in 92. though i saw a set on craigslist for a miata for $850 with tires, but they were 7" wide. I would definitely need the riveted on fenders for them.

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/pts/1169200028.html

or these for 500

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/pts/1166404631.html

Perhaps I'll just keep these and throw snow tires on them for the winter. Because, we get so much snow here in Socal! :lol:

[Arnie]

I love Levitan's car with the Miata Daisies:

[graywolf_14]

Yeah I may have to buy a festiva and try the whole vw flares because I love that kind of look.

[Arnie]

Yeah there are certain types of cars where the add on flares are just part of the mystique. On others, it just looks ghetto. Though I'm not sure how they would be on the festiva because the fenders are kinda of squarish, slab sided. And the wheel openings sit kinda low on the body.

though, hmm, might be cool: