Nicest 13'' Wheels for a AE86

[Wraith]

Reason why 13'' Tires:

I am driving my SR5 coupe....... I originally had 14'' wheels with Wide P195-60R14's on them, it look ok.. but I prefered stock over them even more so. When I changed back to stock P175-80R13's I realized the tire diffrence was incredible at the gas gauge and performance. I could make it to 60 by the end of the on ramp without getting over 3k RPM (4ac automatic w/ac ps SLOWMOBILE LOL). The MPG was as follows.... avg 26MPG highway with the 14's and 33MPG with the stock 13's. I am expecting closer to 35MPG once tires are replaced because I often found two of them at 20psi after two days. Note both MPG figures are with the a/c on in Houston, Texas heat.
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I had to say the above to state my reason for prefering 13'' tires. Although I am sure if I got some P185-60R14's and light weight wheels it wouldnt suffer as much.....but I still want 13''s though.
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What 13'' wheels for under 300 bucks do you think would look the best on a AE86. My coupe currently has the stock SR5 wheels with chrome beauty rings and missing center caps. I would like to restore the stock ones and will even if I find some nice aftermarket 13''s. I wish I could have some 13'' Koing rewinds on my coupe lol.

[Wraith]

Oh yes and I am planing on doing a suspension revival with TRD lowering springs and new shocks all around in about a year.

[banpei]

Uhm, Wraith, the difference of the diameter is already 2cm in favor of the 13inch wheels (80mm sidewall instead of 60mm sidewall) which will give you 8cm extra per revolution. And less wide wheels also means more fuel efficiency. You could also just have put 175-65R14 tires on your 14inch wheels and reached the same mpg. (unless your 14 inch wheels are steelies and incredibly heavy )

For 13 inch wheels? Uhm, I always personally like the stock 13 and 14 inch european wheels.

[NoHachi]

uhm..how about Rota RB 13x8 ET5..several group buys going on at the moment in different colours.. That would be your 13" rewind.

[Wraith]

8'' is too wide to run a p175-70R13 lol. I need like 5'' or 5.5'' 8'' wide is very heavy.

[20vWill]

I run 175/70 on my 13x8 Revolutions all the time. Nice stretch stems some of the sidewall flex.

And my 8" wide Revolutions are not heavy...

[NoHachi]

5.5 inch will look terrible imho..like shoppingcart wheels, but whatever floats your boat..

[rallyman1978]

20vWill Wrote:I run 175/70 on my 13x8 Revolutions all the time. Nice stretch stems some of the sidewall flex.

And my 8" wide Revolutions are not heavy...

Got any pics dude?

[Ivan141]

Most germans use 175/50-13 tyres on 13x8's...go figure, about the weight, yes they are heavier than some smaller ones, but I was arsing about with the rota's 13x8 on my volvo last week and the combined weight of the wheel + 23/57-13 slick (equivalent to 250 or even higher width on standard tires) was much less than that of the old cheesy 14" softline alloys with 185/60 tires on them

[Wraith]

my car doesnt look like it has shoping cart wheels. the stock 13x5 wheels on it look good imo, ofcorse I like the way the SR5 and GT-S sport coupe looked right off the showroom floor.








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