Lancer ch wagon questions

[Jrizzle]

Hi everyone.

Im new here and I own a 2005 Mitsubishi lancer wagon. Its got the 2.4 litre in it, 5 speed manual. By far my favourite car to own so far.

Ive got a couple of modifications I want to do in the coming months and the first is upgrading it to 17 inch wheels and tyres. I was just seeing if any of you have gone to 17s, and I want to know what width wheel and what tyre works the best.

I have lined up some enkei rpf1 wheels and want to put bridgestone re003 tyres on them.

Any help would be great

Thanks
Jarryd

 

[wagonmaster]

Hi Jarryd
Welcome to the club and another wagon owner, i have a 12/04 lancer wagon which has an original american ralliart body kit fitted with orig evo 7 wagon rear spoiler and heaps of other modifications , i'm just in the process of refurbishing my coilovers before refitting them, using combination of BC racing & pedders coilover parts.
As far as wheels go best choice would be 17" x 7" with a 38p-46p offset to keep it reasonably legal, either fitted with a 205/40 x17 or 215/40 x 17, both those sizes will be the correct rolling diameter so your speedo won't be out too much (1%-2%) tolerance at worst, still give you a reasonable ride as well.

As for tyres thats a personal choice, the Bridgestone RE003 are quite good as well, like i said everyones different so whatever you want to try.!

The vrx wagon's/sedan run a 25 mm lower spring than standard es models, so clearance will not be a problem with either as long as your springs are not worn out from too many klms of heavy loads.

Any other questions on future mods, just fire away.

cheers

 

[SDate42]

Nice! I was hanging out for a set of rpf1's for my CH but ended up getting a set of Evo9 wheels. Specs on those are 17x8 +38. They catch on the front VRX lip and the rear outer guard section with 225/45R17. So you will need to modify the front lip and roll the rear guards to fit something of that spec, any smaller should be just fine

 

[Jrizzle]

This is the specs of the wheels

 

[wagonmaster]

The RPF1's your looking at above are 7.5" wide with a offset of +42p, it will be a close call going from a 7" to 7.5" and a high 42p offset, so tire size will be critical.

Your standard tires on a vrx wagon will be a 195x50 R16 which has a rolling diameter of 601.40 mm, so the 215/40 x 17 would be ideal as the rolling diameter will be

603.80 mm, in other words while your driving at 100 kph your speedo will read 99.60 which is only ( 0.40% too slow), in other words bugger all.

As for the wheels above, as SDate42 said above, you may find it hitting somewhere depending on how worn your springs are/wheel alignment settings etc, my gut feeling is it should be ok, but just, give it a go worst case scenario is maybe rolling guard or play with align..settings, but should be ok with the above tires i mentioned.

cheers