E30 M3 18" wheels

MCC1 wrote: I'll give my tuppence worth - I have the std 15"  BBS wheels on my E30 M3 and would definitely NEVER stick on a set of 18" - for various reasons.  Plus it'll totally ruin the handling of you M3 - these cars weren’t designed to run on 18" wheels.  If you lower it, it'll make it even worse and will most like damage you car if you are driving it hard.  I like to break traction as much as possible, the M3 is an excellent handling car and that’s why I bought it, for reaching the limit & sliding in a controllable manner.   Not for outright speed or cornering grip (buy a 4WD car if that’s what you want)  but for handling balance and with narrower tyres it easier to get the car to slide.  I know you can still fo it with wider tyres but it's much easier with narrow ones for the cars power.

 

Beg to differ there, so what size rims did some of the E30 ///M3 DTM cars run on... ????????????????????????????????????????????????????

         18"s 

OK there full on race cars, but thats where our ///M3's technology came from, the race track...

So i would say that somewhere down the line that they were designed for 18", or how could it be ?

 

And as for the other chap, comparing an ///M3 on 18" to a XR2I

 

Thankyou please   and Merry Chrismas        &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;     And Good Will to all E30 ///M3 owners...       

I'll give my tuppence worth - I have the std 15"  BBS wheels on my E30 M3 and would definitely NEVER stick on a set of 18" - for various reasons.

One being it'll ruin the ride - esp. with 35 section tyres.  

Another meaning it will tramline badly on road imperfections (which I really hate - this will make the car a lot slower in normal roads as the steering will be all over the place). 

Plus it'll DEFINETLY dent your acceleration - this is a fact, anyone who try to claim counter is simply wrong.

Another reason would be the cost of tyres, 15" tyres are dead cheap - 18" one isn’t.

Plus it'll totally ruin the handling of you M3 - these cars weren’t designed to run on 18" wheels.  If you lower it, it'll make it even worse and will most like damage you car if you are driving it hard.  I like to break traction as much as possible, the M3 is an excellent handling car and that’s why I bought it, for reaching the limit & sliding in a controllable manner.   Not for outright speed or cornering grip (buy a 4WD car if that’s what you want)  but for handling balance and with narrower tyres it easier to get the car to slide.  I know you can still fo it with wider tyres but it's much easier with narrow ones for the cars power.  

Plus you don’t want to be putting 18" rear tyres on your car too often -cost again.

I also don’t think 18" wheels look right on an E30 M3, make the car look slightly over wheeled.  Modern cars (like an E46) suit big wheels.

I don't intend to change the wheels in my car but if I was it would be 16" max.  17's look grand but I feel even these would spoil the handling

all IMHO

 

Curtis at Powerstation had his M3 on 18's. Personally I thought they looked a bit big, but maybe it is just the look of the rim.

But darylzimm3's rims look sweet!

Pikey

the black with the BBS CH wheels in front of you. We spoke about your engine rebuild.

REZAQ  My 18"  225/35/18

 

 

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Are you talking of Drag Strips?
And 266bhp is that with Nitro or without?[/QUOTE]

 

" WITHOUT "  add another 75bhp for the n2o !!!!!!!!!!   

 

 

GT6-M3 wrote: My old triumph {is} soon(ish) to be reborn with 17" wheels which have pretty much the same rolling radius.

 

From your username, I wonder if you are rebuilding it with a 6 cylinder M3 powerplant?

darylzimm3 wrote:        ( No ones getting past me)  " but 266bhp helps "                                             Hope this helps

Are you talking of Drag Strips?
And 266bhp is that with Nitro or without?

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Rezaq,

I run 18" wheels with 225/35/18's all around.

I have no problems with fouling of arches, full lock is fine, my abs works, i have not lost any acceleration, and it handles like it's on rails...   

Also the speedo is spot on, unless me gps is wrong... !!!!!!

In all, no problem in 2 years of having 18's on my ///M3

       ( No ones getting past me)  " but 266bhp helps "

                                    Hope this helps

Rezaq, think we'll need to rename you the "Wheels and Tyres kid" (regardless of how old you are ) As a little advice try the Search function, both on here and S14.net or try and contain all the info in 1 thread. Makes it much easier to read too.

GT6-M3 wrote: P.s. Why do people on this forum get so narky!?

Theres a question Just that a lot of the advice is repeated fairly regularly.

Off the top of my head its
Wheel/Tyre combos,
any form of ignition or cooling fault,
Water ingress,
Carbon Airboxes/Alpha N

etc etc

There is a search function, so like S14 are always banging on. Use it. Chances are the info is still relevant.

Not a dig btw