interesting story: camry wheels on a mitsubishi 3000gt

[zoni]

http://www.3si.org/forum/showthread.php?t=305070

check that thread out over at 3si.org (3000GT/Stealth International), it says it all...

pretty interesting if you ever consider trying to fit a different stock wheel on a different car.

[GrantTPC]

The way that guy made the wheels fit is one of the scariest things I have ever seen..

That's just a catastophic failure waiting to happen..

[zoni]

thats me... its not so bad... it drives well.

[Silver Streak]

Am I reading this right? The hub on the Mitsu is too BIG, so you're pushing the rim out with washers?? Are you crazy? Take those off immediately before you kill yourself and others on the road around you. Hubcentric rings won't help you, only a spacer will which aren't the greatest themselves.

Do the public a favour and take them off. It'd be totally ignorant if you didn't. Spending all your money on your turbo is no excuse for safety.

[zoni]

i know i know its bad.... i may put the stock wheels back on... but i just wanted to see how this would work out.

[Grant]

Originally Posted by zoni

i know i know its bad.... i may put the stock wheels back on... but i just wanted to see how this would work out.

It may drive well, but the stress you are putting on the lugs is not what they were designed to do. The lug bolts are designed to hold the rim flat up against the mounting face.. not take the weight of the car.

I just hope you haven't done any damage to the lugs.. The centre bore of the hub on Toyota cars is smaller than most of the other cars out there.. You can take the rim to a machine shop and have the hole in the centre bored out to the proper size if you really want to use the rims.

Hucentric rims in this case wont' help any.. and spacers will mess up the offset

[RedPhoenix]

zoni is crazy

[dna59]

that is crazy

[Cyorke]

I am assuming there is not a safety inspection up there. That would get you yanked off the road quickly I am sure if there was.

It is things like that make we wish we had at least some kind of basic safety inspection here in Tennessee.

That is the kind of stuff that some of the guys I used to four wheel with would do and usually it was worse off int he end. They would ahve more problems with the rigging they came up with than if they would ahve jsut left it alone in the first place.

[zoni]

relax guys..... it'll be ok.

i know what im doing.

i know it is bad.

i know it is dangerous.

i know it puts an enormous amount of stress on the lug bolts.

i just posted it up to share my laughs with you. i am no noob.

[Archosman]

What happens when you hit someone? Wil that still be ok?

[Cyorke]

i just posted it up to share my laughs with you. i am no noob.

That is why I was surprised to see you posting something like that. I can see it from someone who has no knowledge of how things like taht can affect the handling, braking and overall driveability of the car. Nothing wrong with seeing if it will fit but I dont know if I would want to drive it like that. I am assuming the vibration you said you were having was from the fact that the wheel was not flush up against the hub surface. NO matter how you were to go about tightening the lug nuts there is no way for it to be straight in relation to up and down and there would always be a vibration because it would be like riding aroudn on a warped rim. A very warped rim at that. There would be huge amounts of side to side run out. SInce you put the spacers you made ont he abck then you take care of that since you ahe a solid mounting surface again.

[zoni]

if i had a doubt as to how the car would perform, i wouldnt have done it in the first place.

so to whomever thinks i am stupd for doing what i have done, fuck off. it is my car, and my say. i just decided to post this for laughs. i wont hit anyone. if i thought it was unsafe i wouldnt do it. and i know what is safe and what is not.

see my post count noob???!?!?!? i wouldnt do soemthing that owuld be dangerous for myself or others.

[BullMarket]

how unsafe.

Relax zoni, you knew you'd get lit up by posting something like that.

BULLMKT

[zoni]

i was drunk posting..... sorry so angry.

still, i dont like people who know nothing trying to tell me what i should do. i consider anyone smarter than i a reliable source. if someone isnt smarter than i, then their opinion is worthless. i just want people to know that.