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I've seen a few I like, including 2nd hand ones but I'm fancying these:.....Are the wheels going to stick too far out, and are the fronts going to stick out more than the rears? On a sonic shadow, Gunmetal or bronze?(215/40/17)(255/40/17) or (245/40/17) to prevent rubbing on the rear arches if they aren't rolled... Being 245s you have for rear tires you are less likely to have any rubbing on the arches at the back. I have this problem when I hit a bump on our shocking roads haha! There are photos in a sales thread but I won't post a link incase it's taken as a shocking sales pitch attempt haha!! Even 17x7.5 et35 and 17x8.5et35 works well. I used to have rota D1s in these sizes and they fit really nice too. I'd imagine you can get the rota gtr in those sizes too 8.5j/ 9j would be a better choice but it also does depend on offsets! 
+35 & 17x9J +37 here: Didn't even know about that website. Just presumed they only came in 9 and 9.5" like on the drift works site. ..7.5" front. And 9" rears. Both ET35. Can't understand why they don't do an 8" rim though... Let me look on the net for 5mins Yet they do 17x8 on other styles of wheel.. Which is strange Very odd. GHOST wrote:Cheers guys.
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+30 or 17x7.5 +35 and rear 17x9J +35 should fit but depending on tyre widths you may need to roll the arches to avoid rubbing. There's no point in having 9" or 9.5" alloys on an mr2 really unless you roll or extend arches and fit 265, or 275mm tyres. An 8.5" alloy will take them with less bulging so that's as large as you ever need really. 7.5 would be fine for the front but the 9" might just be too big.+ 25 will be a challenge on the rear. Maybe with stretched tyres - if that's your thing.+ 30 being the alternative... Probably a tough job too. There's nothing to say you can't have your arches rolled - you just need to factor the cost in. 10mm further inboard than a +25. You may well get away with a +25, but the tyre will certainly be outside the arch. On stock suspension it may not contact the arch, I couldn't say for sure. You could perhaps remedy the situation with some fairly extreme negative camber, or stretched tyres as mentioned. The +30 of the 9.5" wheel is better, but the wheel being wider means you face the exact same problem and the fitment will be more or less the same in terms of outside arch, but more likely to contact your suspension strut on the inside.
Depends on your tastes. Grids are the most popular Rota wheel by far, and there are accordingly loads of available fitments.- if you've read this far you deserve this - check out another retailer for a 17x9+35 
http://www.rotashop.co.uk/rota-gtr-17-9 ... 040415.htm From what I can gather though from the other posts, my 245 width tyres might not be wide enough for a 9j wheel. Is that right? I have a set of wheels I'm packaging up for sending to Cardhore and the 9" rears have 245s on them and they are fine.GeorgeL wrote:http://www.rotashop.co.uk/rota-gtr_c337 ... _32466.htm
Set the parameters at the side to 17" et35 and 5x114 and it comes to with two options:
17x7.5 et35 and 17x9 et35
These would work and work Well with your tires too
I might go for those then. Just not sure whether to go for gunmetal or bronze. The gunmetal looks quite dark. Shame they don't do the silver GTRs in that sizeGHOST wrote:my 245 width tyres might not be wide enough for a 9j wheel.
It's just that it's kind of a waste of a 9" since you could equally fit them on an 8.5 or even an 8 and save yourself some weight. Shame to hide such a nice set of rims under such a dark colour. Tempted to go for bronze but undecided.
