RallyMINI,

The Konigs are nice but the BBS are awesome! Very hot. I'd love to lower my car a bit more than what the JCW suspension did, but it's my only car and I need a bit more clearance for daily (and only driver) sanity.

 

heheh i know...just showing different ride heights The wheels on both of your cars are looking great

Thanks bro Slammed cars can often cause problems for daily drivers. I bet your car still looks nice with the JCW suspension

 

Finally, a shot of my new 15" Speedy Racemod wheels from Wheelsnext. I need to treat my rotors, they rust too badly! But the wheels... mmm...tasty!

 

Those BBS look wicked!!! I love the old school look...

 

Now, I have a question... I saw a set of BBS from an 80's BMW 325 with the right PCD (4 x 100mm) on Ebay, but since these cars were RWD, I don't know if I'll have problems with the offset. Any suggestions?

 

which model were they? Any idea of their width or offset? It's hard to tell if they're gonna fit without knowing which model or atleast size you are thinking of.

 

What is width and offset of these?

 

I widened mine since they are 2-piece. The lips were custom made by Schmidt....so after all the work the wheels came out to:

Fronts are 15x8 offset 15

Rears are 15x8.5 offset 9

205/50 all around currently....may step down to 195/50 all around .....or 195/50 fronts 205/45 rears

 

Hmm, this is cool, but certainly makes for a more costly/timely procedure of rotating tires... I was kind of joking, but seriously, I rotate my tires every 3K as I like to keep the wear as even as possible. What's your rotation plans? Do Coopers burn through front tires anything like a JCW MCS? Dumb question... and it deserves a clever smarta$s response--and I'll be disappointed if nobody pipes in with one.

 

Width is 15 x 7, offset was 24.

 

hmm you will have some issues with rubbing if you plan on running 205/50 tires and lower it

with 15x7's and an et of about 32-35 the wheels are RIGHT at the edge of the arches....anything lower than that will start poking out past the arches.

 

Not really something i worry about too much. I get lots of wear due to my camber settings....but my car doesnt see many miles each year (still at 44k after 5 years) and 7 months out of the year the car has my steel snow wheels on it. So the tires easily last all summer without showing any wear and seeing as this is my 4th set of summer wheels, the tires have never been so worn that they need a change

 

Proportions of the original w/10" wheels won't transfer directly to the larger MINI, but 15's are about as small as I'm gonna go. I just put on 15" Silver Konig Rewinds, myself - see post on that thread. ;-)

BCNU
Rob in Dago

 

i have the 16 inch MC wheels with dunlop runflats.

i also have 15 inch holies with continential all season tires.

i notice a difference in speed/response with the 15s.

i am thinking about new15 inchers, with sport summer rubber..

you guys have given me some good ideas...

 

Stock e30 BMW offset is et25. Like others have said, they are gonna look roller skate-ish by poking out of the fenders.

 

no....mine poke much more than that and still look great and non roller-skatish. But he would notice rubbing.

 

You say "poke out", I say "roller skate". Toe-mah-toe, tah-mah-toe.

But I do agree that we can get away with some more poke-age in our little cars, thanks in part to the plastic fender flares.

 

but mine poke 35mm more than his would....so i think he's in the clear even if mine look roller skatish

 

I wasn't dissin' at all - sorry if it seemed that way.

You're right about rubbage/camber/wear concerns, though.

What offset are you running?

 

As an aside, I would love to run this Ronal wheel:



It's a 4x100, 15 x7.5, et25 for e30 BMW, but I would be concerned about rubbage and bearing wear, as my Coop is a daily driver.

 

15x8 et 14 in the front and 15x8.5 et9 in the back

 

Oh snap.

 

Those shouldn't be a problem at all depending on what tires you run.

I think everyone needs to think about offset here. . . perspective has been lost. It's in millimeters, which are tiny, 25.4 of them in ONE inch,and is measured from the center of the wheel out. The difference between a stock 40mm, or et40, offset and the above wheel is about the width of the "ALT" key in front of you. So to say that one will work, and the other will destroy your bearings and fender liners is not true. Your bearings will probably be affected if you track the car or drive it extrememly hard all the time on really low offset wheels, like <et20, but for everything else it should be fine.

The above wheel will be JUST past the fender and the right tire, probably a 195/55r15, would fit right in there.

 

You're right, of course.

I know it's all relative, but a mm here, a mm there and all of a sudden you are talking real number.

I have no idea what fitment and clearance is like on a MINI, but I know on my e30 even a 10mm difference with the same profile & width tire caused severe rubbing issues, and I had to roll the fenders or risk tearing-up my front fenders when I hit a bump.

Not saying that would happen with a MINI (and it sounds like it probably wouldn't, given the range that has been tried in this thread), but 25 mm is a few microns shy of a full inch. Call me a little gun shy, but I've had experiences with people saying "sure, that'll fit just fine" only to find out "just fine" meant "OK - if you roll it and run a rediculous tire size".

And a 195/55 is gonna look pretty skinny on a 7.5" wheel. I was thinkin' more like a 225/50

 

Well, right now I have 17's on it:




BUT, I have these in my spare bedroom (waiting on tires):