RPF1 in 14"

Show off your lightweight high-performance wheels and see here what they look like on your Mazda before you buy.
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Post by revlimiter »

oh man, bummer.

well, on the plus side, perhaps you could post a photo of the huge pallet o' happiness to make all of us smile? When you get it, that is.
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Enkei called to say wheels on the way today!!! Likely get to us Friday!
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once the wheels arrive, can you take some nice high res pics of the +19 and +28 side by side (face dead on, face from the side, inside, whatever else)?

thanks!
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Wheels are HERE!

Wheels are SOOO LIGHT!

Just back from SEMA and getting ready to leave for track day tomorrow. And the wheels are here today! Thus, apologies but near ZERO spare time to sit around taking pictures while we try and get as many orders shipped as possible today and tomorrow. Cell phone pics will have to suffice. Now that I see them in person it turns out my early speculation that they would use pad thickness to make the difference for offset was right! The lip is precisely and exactly the same on both offsets! And, despite the early speculation about spokes being "more curved"...in fact the spokes are the same part on both offsets. It would cost too much money to make two entirely different molds...so they don't. Both offsets start life as the same wheel...much like Enkei does with many of the other offsets like 38 and 45mm for 18x9.5 sizes, and RP-F1 15x7 41mm and 35mm where Enkei starts with the same wheel and shaves down the pad to make the 6m difference for the two part numbers. Likewise here, it appears that roughly 6mm is taken from shaving the pad....notice deeper pad cavities on the 19mm wheel here....extra material to move the wheel outward.


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And roughly 3mm is taken by offsetting the lug pocket (the 5 inch circular area that contains the lug holes). You can see this in photo below if you look real close. But again, the lip depth and spoke profiles are exactly the same for both offsets.

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Post by revlimiter »

I'm making very manly, happy squee sounds right now.

You rock, Brian. Thank you again for doing all of this.
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thanks for the pics!!
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Post by mr_mazda329 »

Woo hoo. Brian. You have made us so happy. You rock! Thank you
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You are the man brian! many thanks.
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Post by zooki »

Thanks for getting these. Really really nice wheels!
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