my SVT. black & rust, looking for wheels.

hafftrak · Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:54 am

Have you tried the 4x108 classifieds on vwvortex?

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zeroforum?id=801

CleanZX3 · Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:46 pm

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4641865

Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:28 am

CleanZX3 wrote:http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4641865

Thats a really good deal for those wheels. I've only seen another set of those in a 4x108 PCD and thats probably back in 2004.

hafftrak · Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:29 am

I had some 15x8 Enkei mesh wheels on my Mustang back in the day. Wish I still had them.

Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:58 am

hafftrak wrote:I had some 15x8 Enkei mesh wheels on my Mustang back in the day. Wish I still had them.

Saleen wheels?

Redlineracer12 · Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:36 am

o2designs wrote:
CleanZX3 wrote:http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4641865
Thats a really good deal for those wheels. I've only seen another set of those in a 4x108 PCD and thats probably back in 2004.

Those look pretty similar to this guy's Borbets:

Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:07 am

Redlineracer12 wrote:
o2designs wrote:
CleanZX3 wrote:http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4641865
Thats a really good deal for those wheels. I've only seen another set of those in a 4x108 PCD and thats probably back in 2004.
Those look pretty similar to this guy's Borbets:

Is that car local? I can't remember the guys name.

hafftrak · Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:26 am

o2designs wrote:
hafftrak wrote:I had some 15x8 Enkei mesh wheels on my Mustang back in the day. Wish I still had them.
Saleen wheels?

I don't think they were Saleens. Bought them new from a wheel shop.

They looked like these, except with Enkei center caps:

Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:05 am

Yeah, I had a set of those. They are Saleen wheels from a Fox Body...

Redlineracer12 · Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:20 am

FORDSVTPARTS wrote:Is that car local? I can't remember the guys name.

No that particular car isn't local, but we did have a similar T-red locally. He went by slingersvt but recently sold his car to blackcoog, I wanna say his name was Mike but can't remember for sure. If it's the car you were thinking of it had white wheels...

ClOckwOrkSVT · Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:49 am

so how did we go from me wanting something in a dark color, mesh style, 18" or so, to you guys showing me silver 5 spoke borbet wheels on a vdub that are barely different than FSVT wheels?

hafftrak · Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:47 am

Shows you how limited your options are with 4x108.

How big are the brakes on a CSVT? can you run 15" wheels?

ClOckwOrkSVT wrote:those are tight but i wonder how tiny the 15" wheels would look on a car that originally came with 16"'s. keep in mind this is a much bigger car than your focus's.

With the right offset and tire size it would look good. Fox body mustangs can look good with 15s, and they are probably about the same size as your car. If you are going for the stretch and poke look though, 15s would look way too small.

ClOckwOrkSVT · Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:49 am

yeah i want stretch and poke

i'm gona go run to some crapyards and see what i can find for 17" steelies.

so who wants to buy my focus SVT wheels?

Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:25 am

Redlineracer12 wrote:
FORDSVTPARTS wrote:Is that car local? I can't remember the guys name.
No that particular car isn't local, but we did have a similar T-red locally. He went by slingersvt but recently sold his car to blackcoog, I wanna say his name was Mike but can't remember for sure. If it's the car you were thinking of it had white wheels...

Yup, Mike. He had some different wheels at the AV show last year but I think he had a CF hood like in your pic.

Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:26 am

ClOckwOrkSVT wrote:so how did we go from me wanting something in a dark color, mesh style, 18" or so, to you guys showing me silver 5 spoke borbet wheels on a vdub that are barely different than FSVT wheels?

Because you never know what'll look really good so you get all sorts of options and opinions.