THE 101>>COOL JAPANESE WHEELS PT.1

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Revgasm_Josh — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:53:30 GMT

what!!!!

NO BARRELS!!!!!!

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ej25run — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:21:56 GMT

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ProTree — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:36:51 GMT

to be honest, id rather sport watanabes than minilites. the design of watanabes is much better IMO than minilites

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ProTree — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:34:13 GMT

Andy Blackmore: if we were to follow your theory then that means compomotive is essentially a knockoff of minilite. a knockoff wheel is a wheel with a design that is EXACTLY the same as its copy. the RS spokes look similar to minilites but the overall wheel is different like what smoktout mentioned. if we were to consider similar styles as knockoffs then every wheel manufacturer would be a knockoff of bbs since they made the mesh design.

rota on the other hand makes EXACT copies of wheels from other wheel manufacturers (rays, desmond, crimson, weds, etc..). a good portion (and i mean majority) of their business come from people who want jdm wheels but could not afford it

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Smoktout — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:42:26 GMT

Yes, RS Wats are like minilites with fat stepped lips and low offsets.

I actually think the lip is very different and prefer the RS stepped lip much more.

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Andy Blackmore — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:33:40 GMT

ProTree, I appreciate that, but its still a knock off of a Minilite from the UK :)

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Banpei — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:04:24 GMT

Great article!

I know all rims so far and would love to own a set of all of them! :)

For the second part... I would expect it to contain at least the famous Doridoris... And no cool JDM wheel article is complete without Celica/Carina A60 rims (aka Celica Supra MK2 rims) either... :P

If you need a nice example:

www.banpei.net/.../celica-supra-rims-finally-being-painted

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Cole Trickle — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:49:27 GMT

I'm starting to feel like I'm back at school again. You guys should make a test at the end of the year and see who graduates =P

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Daniel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:33:12 GMT

This reminds me of the cool forum thread on JNC: www.japanesenostalgiccar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=605 . It's great to see the different styles, which are quite unknown in e.g. Europe.

Cheers,

Daniel

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ProTree — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:47:55 GMT

the cherryblossoms look nice. i heard that collectors sometimes dont even mount them. they buy them and then store them like priceless paintings...

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ProTree — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:58:26 GMT

Andy Blackmore: RS Watanabe is not a new company. they started in the 60's

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JP — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:15:42 GMT

thats a good overview of a few of the more well known oldskool wheels. maybe antonio should do the second part of this since hes like our wheel/stance expert on the AE86

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Mike Garrett — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:21:36 GMT

Hi Chihiro,

Thanks for the correction. Interesting history behind these wheels!

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Chihiro Yoshimura — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:19:38 GMT

Hi Mike.

Let me say something.

It is not SAKURA but YAYOI.

Now HAYASHI RACING has reproduced this extremely rare wheel that TECHNO RACING used to make, but HAYASHI has not changed the name of this reproduct wheel; still its name is YAYOI, not SAKURA.

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BlueSlug — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:29:56 GMT

While all of these rims are awesomely awesome, i agree with Mr. Blackmore, many of these styles, especially the RS Watanabe, are styles which have been around on touring cars for many decades.

My favourite of this bunch is the SSR Formula Mesh :D

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liamsil80 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:19:34 GMT

oh okay, thanks for the info, can't wait for pt. 2!

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Andy Blackmore — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:12:24 GMT

correction speed symbols start lower, end higher and can be two letters

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Andy Blackmore — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:03:39 GMT

J is the style/shape of Rim, so 15"x10J is very wide 15" rim.. IIRC 'J' is the shape of the area, where the tyre attaches to the rim. (the bit you can't see)

for example on a 225/45 R18 T then the tyre has a tread width of 225mm. The 45 is the aspect ratio (height/width). R is radial and 18 is the diameter of wheel it fits. The last letter is a speed rating that runs from N to T.

Not sure what 'H' might mean,

You will often find a three figure number on tyres as well. This will tell you the month and year the tyre was made.

This is for road tyres. To confuse people further, some race tyres have a different format. I'm sure this is the case on the Michelin shod Aston Martin DBR9

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ridgezero — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:27:24 GMT

Awesome feature please bring more! RS Watanabe FTW!

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liamsil80 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:16:05 GMT

seems like the right place to ask this question, what do letters mean in wheel sizes? ex. 15"x10J?? I think i;ve also seem H in the diameter, any light shed on this subject would be greatly appreciated