7" offset

[firelizard]

Anyone have pics of 7" wide wheels in offsets ranging from 35 to 30 (+/- 3mm)?

[nezumimaru]

yahoo auction japan have pretty good system for wheel searching
here is the link to the wheel search page:
http://list1.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/2084200183-category.html?
basically you can just enter width, offset and PCD etc... and it will turn out just what you want to find

to type keywords (just FYI ~ you probably know already) ~ 7J means 7" wide wheel, +35 or ET35 for offset value
so just try from 7J +35 to 7J +30 and you'll find every offset you want to look at
just a few i dug up from the search...

7J +35
http://img161.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/7/5/5/9/hideroadrunner-img600x450-1155815638dsc00018.jpg
http://img161.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/7/5/5/9/hideroadrunner-img600x450-1155815623dsc00021.jpg
http://img187.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/1/6/9/7/dct1205com-img600x450-1149130862img_0708.jpg
http://img189.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/8/1/3/1/daisukensr-img507x336-1156661531p1030873.jpg
http://img203.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/2/6/1/2/shin32032-img600x450-1157032720img_0788.jpg

7J +30
http://img207.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/6/0/0/7/nangoku9-img600x450-1153719621001.jpg
http://img163.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/9/0/5/6/oyaji3986-img600x450-1156649647dscn9163.jpg

[One Ton VIP]

Actually searching by just sizes will give you limited returns... as long as the seller included those specs in the item heading. Along with "wheels and tires" category there's also a "wheels" category... top page would be here:
http://list1.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/2084005140-category.html
Scope out both cats though, as people post bare wheels in both, as well as wheels with tires in both...

And if you want a narrower wheel (like, say a 7") with decent lip in a higher offset, you'll want to look into some of the cast 1pc wheels with the curved spokes, such as Work's Nezart series, esp the Nezart Spoke

[Dominik]

I would have thought there was no point in going for dish with 7" wheels, especially with a 'normal' offset like that... Would look like the C5 replicas i had on my accord - less than an inch of dish and thats only because the spokes were angled. In the end i had wheels that looked smaller than an equivelant flat-faced 17" and no real dish to brag about. Lose-lose situation IMO

[uncle_el]

as the others have said, there's not much lip to be had on a 7 inch wide wheel. but if memory serves me right, that might be the upper limit for your current car (protege?).

before my accord was totalled, the last set of wheels i had were ssr mk-iii-s:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/uncle_el/random/omnipower%20coilovers/10205-3.jpg

forgive the text, as the following pics weren't intended for a thread like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/uncle_el/ssr/ssr1copy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/uncle_el/ssr/ssr4.jpg

[firelizard]

Yeah, wasn't expecting a lot of lip. 1" at +38 isn't too shabby, but not really worth it.
I guess I'll have to aim for a nice no-lip look after all.
Thanks guys!

[One Ton VIP]

I had these 16x8", +25mm for a little while:
http://www.onetongarage.com/cars/van/05.jpg
http://www.onetongarage.com/cars/van/07.jpg
http://www.onetongarage.com/cars/van/08.jpg
Now that's 95mm of lip, albeit "fake lip," it's still quite substantial for a 1pc wheel. The same wheel can be had in 7" width in several offsets, with up to 63mm of lip, which isn't that bad actually. But I will bet you anything that you can squeeze the 16x8", +25mm fitment under a protege's fenders w/o too much work. Hmm of course this is more a euro style wheel than anything, but once you factor a budget into your search, you gotta make some compromises somewhere. And it's better to run a well-fitting "euro" or any non-vip style wheel, than it is to run an ill-fitting vip style wheel