5th gens do not need a body kit, they look good without it. Yeah you need to paint the side skirts and you will be set. Nice ride by the way.

 

15"s on a 5th Gen?????.......

It looks to me like 16" wheels with 215-45-16 Falken Azenis Tires. But I could be wrong.......

Again...15"s on a 5th Gen???...Why?

 

I asked him about it and his reply was quite interesting. "lOOKatme" is all about making the car faster and handel better and not much about looks - although his car looks incredible to me.

Having smaller wheels brings the center of mass of wheel+tire closer to middle of the rim, which lowers the moment of inertia. The wieght and smaller radius basically lets these wheels spin faster when needed

It sounds kinda silly to put 15" wheels on a 5th gen I guess, but it turned out rather well. Maybe when I get enough money I'll think about it

 

They are 15" team dynamics wheels. 15X7 with a +45mm Offset.

I wanted to run some good tires. 225/50/15 yokohama A032R's....and this was the size I wanted to run. I also chose 15's because of the lower moment of inertia. I am an engineer and I understand the effects moment of inertia has on rotating mass....which consists of the wheel/tire combo. 15's give me a large advantage in acceleration and decelleration......and dyno around 0-12WHP more than 17-18" set ups. My car isn't made to impress anyone.....as I rather mod it for speed/handling. I have tein SS coilover with upgraded rear springs that are cornerweighted....I threw on a rear progress bar with endlinks....and have the strut bars. I am lowered about 1.3-1.5 inches...and run -1 degree of camber in the rear...and a hair more in the front. The car handles VERY well.....I don't know the skidpad numbers exactly...but its probably in the realms of 1.0+G skidpad. Probably higher.

I have the i/h/test pipe/e and 1 step colder plugs/spark plug wires. I also am running Hawk HP+ brake pads with ss lines...and dot 4 fluid. Stock OE blank rotors.

I'll try and get some video footage one of these weekends when I take it out on the canyon roads. I usually run with 350Z's and s2000's.....and they don't even stand a chance. I usually run a couple turns and wait up for them. granted we are at all different driving levels....but the major difference is just how good these tires grip....much better control...and much more grip. Cornerweighting the car also made a huge difference...as left and right turns turn equally. I spent a day testing tire pressures and different rear sway bar settings...and the car handles with just a hair of oversteer when I cruise with the car in gear.....I can let off the accelerator to get a little oversteer....and get on the throttle to increase oversteer. My driving style usually is controlled by the throttle...so I am forced by nature of my set up to drive fast throw corners on the throttle

 

it looks ok ... nothin special imo

 

I was just tripping about the Brakes...........Do the Wheels clear the calipers with no problem???

 

no problem at all.

its not really that amazing. ITR's run the same brakes as the preludes and they run 15's......ever wonder how their numbers are better than a prelude and they have less torque and HP....because they run 15's and have a lighter weight car.

 

It needs to be lowered.

 

it is lowered.....1.3-1.5 inches.

lower it anymore and you lose suspension travel and handling.

you guys must not know anything about suspension engineering.

 

15's are the best. putting the car on 15's with good rubber makes the car feel so much more responsive, especially if you can undersize the diameter of the tire to shorten the final gearing of the car.

i was going to run 225/50/15's on those wheels before i sold em to lookatme, if i still had em i'd probably run 225/45/15 toyo RA-1's on them and smile. but i decided that i didn't have room for 3 sets of wheels, so i stuck with the 17's and OEM wheels i had and decided that i was going to run 235's or 245's on the 17's.

if i was made otu of money i'd buy another set of 15's. probably 15x8 TE-37's and run 225/45/15's.