Lookie what I ordered (56k no way)

[Vinny]

Well I finally decided, incase no one noticed, that the bastard hatch is back in my good graces and I'm going to be keeping it. So on that note I figured with the drop and all new wheels and tires were in order. ADR Sokudo Series Gun Metal Tuner Wheels w/ 205/40/R17 Ventus HR II's (not my first choice but they'll work for now)
http://www.trixracing.com/motor/pictures/sokudogunmetal1.jpg http://www.trixracing.com/motor/pictures/sokudogunmetal4.jpg

They are a VERY light gunmetal. The original thought was to go with silver but since the plan is to eventually paint it Civic si Blue I thought these would work for both the color now and the color down the road.

Heres the difference between the Silver, the light gunmetal, and the gunblack
http://www.trixracing.com/motor/pictures/ADRsokudo8SILVER4.jpg silver http://www.trixracing.com/motor/pictures/sokudogunmetal4.jpg Light gunmetal http://www.trixracing.com/motor/pictures/adrsokudo8gunblack4.jpg Gunblack

Hey can someone chop these onto a pic of my car so I get an idea of how they'll look????????? If you need a smaller pic of them I can round one up for ya
http://www.hpphoto.com/servlet/LinkPhoto?GUID=bbbf22e4-293e-44c3-571d-2cc766337f23&size=

[Cheeseburger]

thaso are f*cking bad ass good to hear that you are keeping the car. how much are you going to pay for those?

[NXRacer]

That wouldnt be my choice of wheels, but i bet they'll look good. SI blue? that'll be interesting to see.

[Vinny]

the package deal ran me 700 shipped. Thats wheels, tires, mounted, balanced and everything.

Caleb I wanted something kinda different, but didn't want to spend 1300 just on rims alone to get the SSR's I wanted. I will still get them but just not right now.

Plan for the car is finding a red donor hatch and completely swapping the black interior over (complete dash. all the trim panels, headliner, carpet,basically everything) minus the front seats which will be Corbeau's and I'll have the back seats reupholstered to match. Then a nice deep civic si blue probably about this time next year.

[Cheeseburger]

thats not a bad deal 700

[NXRacer]

that should look sweet. 700 is not a bad deal at all. Im getting (someday) a set of rota grids +tires for $699 mounted and balanced

[BDaccordguy]

those are some badass wheels man. Ive always kinda wondered what those wheels would look like on our cars, so post some pics when u get em on!

[pimp86LX]

just do one thing, please clean up your drums and calpipers. I see so many nice rims showing off rusty old brakes its heartbreaking.

:violin:

[NXRacer]

hey vinny, can i have your hubcaps?? I'll trade em for mine! :D

[Vinny]

just do one thing, please clean up your drums and calpipers. I see so many nice rims showing off rusty old brakes its heartbreaking.

:violin:
I don't have drums, did the se-i swap a few weeks ago and we used all new prts as far as calipers, rotors, pads, hoses and misc BS. The fronts are all new as well, except the calipers but I may see about getting a good cleaner in there or some acid based etch to get the looking like new.

Caleb what am I going to do with your hubcaps????? By the time we both paid to have em shipped back and forth you probably could have picked some up from ebay or a local hubcap place. Mine aren't near as clean as they look in the pics, one of them is quite rashed

[XxDark_AccordxX]

Very nice choice. Good luck :)

[Nospeed]

damn vinny....nice choice...

i am biased to the 6-8 spoke design and gunmetal of course...i also like those silver lipped ones...im trying to convince the wife into letting me get some rims when taxes get back...those only cost you 700 shipped???

[lightbulblxi]

those are tight man, good choice

[sccrsteve5]

man...i like 'em!

[Jims 86LXI HB]

I think those will look really nice, I could go for any of the colors you've shown.

[Justin86]

Yea I've been a fan of those wheels esp the gunmetal. Thats a pretty good price too, I paid 720 form my wheels and tires shipped but I could only get crappy Kumho 711's

[89cordlx]

those look alot better than they do on websites! I want a set! and check out vulcantire.com they're a discount Falken site. got my 205-45-16 falken ziex for $279 shipped

[BITESIZE]

I used to have those same rims on my hatchie.

http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/7/web/379000-379999/379742_2_full.jpg

http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/7/web/379000-379999/379742_37_full.jpg

[89cordlx]

I used to have those same rims on my hatchie.

http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/7/web/379000-379999/379742_2_full.jpg

http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/7/web/379000-379999/379742_37_full.jpg
Why'd you get rid of them?

[89cordlx]

Vinny, did you ever notice how your front wheels doesn't seem to be in the center of the wheels well? Maybe it was just the angle of the pic though...

[BITESIZE]

Cause I got these now....
http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/7/web/379000-379999/379742_42_full.jpg

[BITESIZE]

Vinny, did you ever notice how your front wheels doesn't seem to be in the center of the wheels well? Maybe it was just the angle of the pic though...


Looks like his wheel is turned slightly
:stupid:

[buish]

i have adr sokudo 8's in gold with a polished lip on my 88 sedan. running, 205-40/R17. only thing i don't like is the low profile, yeah, it looks nice, but with all my parallel parking with such low rubber, i got curb rash.

[BMS]

light gunmetal for sure

[buish]

here is an old photo of my car. no longer have them up front, b/c i got a flat and have no money to get new tires and probably won't till i find a new job.

http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/carlfung1/detail?.dir=/car&.dnm=hondalip.jpg

also, i no longer have the jdm corners.

[Hash_man_Se_i]

Those rims are pretty nice... I am considering getting some rims that are pretty similar to them, but in black... Although my first choice is the RH evolution C2, but they are mad cash.

Can't wait to get some 17's.

[Vinny]

For some reason my wheels aren't centered, who knows why. I don't worry about it since it doesn't cause me any problems. I don't know if its the drop or what but it is something I just recently noticed

[mugenprelude86]

nice... go with the darkest ones

[X-Lr8]

http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/659/4117chop.jpg

[blazin3gen]

damn that looks good

[NXRacer]

For some reason my wheels aren't centered, who knows why. I don't worry about it since it doesn't cause me any problems. I don't know if its the drop or what but it is something I just recently noticed

if you look at side profiles of almost any 3g its like that. i've always noticed that, but i cant figure out why they're like that.

exhibit A:
http://a9.cpimg.com/image/57/76/27882839-b49a-02000180-.jpg

then of course, theres exhibit B which shows them centered. . . . . weird.
http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/12/web/372000-372999/372215_28_full.jpg

[BMS]

Is the suspension designed so that the wheel moves towards the rear when lowered? All the stock height cars are centered.

[Vinny]

thats a good question and I wish I had a definite answer. All I know is that in order to get the wheels centered in the wheel wells not it takes 3-5 degrees of caster. I'm going to be replacing both lower control arms, both radius rod arms, both upper control arms, and both knuckles this week or weekend just to see what happens. I have a feeling I may be a lil tweaked at the lower control arms.

Oh and caleb, you kinda lost me ther, especially since exhibit A is a :redx:

[Vinny]

ohhhhh I forgot.


Thanks to X-Lr8 for chopping the wheels onto my car. Thanks alot. Hopefully I'll have the real deal posted next week, wed or so

[X-Lr8]

no prob anytime

[BMS]

Vinny, I dunno about all that flashing stuff. Those two posts in a row look like an epileptic seizure waiting to happen

[markmdz89hatch]

Vinny, do you have JDM corners? Hmm.....

Anyway, just a little advice about the conversion from the Phoenix Red 88 DX Hatchback interior, be careful. Don't forget you have an LX-i, so all your window controls are built into the armrest, and the lower pocket compartment is longer on the LX-i's, where the DX's don't have any of the window controls on the armrest. So, you'll need some custom switches setup somewhere. Might I suggest taking the switches from an E36 BMW, as they have console mounted switches that will flow great with the 3G interior.