Hello, Im entertaining the idea of getting a 308 next year (75-80) I just love the sound of carbs. Anyway, I wanted to swap out the wheels for an in the family ferrar wheel. The idea here is to get a little more tread on the ground with better quality tires and close up the wheel gap a little bit. If you could post pictures of the swaps of your 308's with different model ferrari rims and your thoughts on the swaps. Thank you, Luke
13 pages of wheels just down the first page. http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/308-328/121127-show-me-your-aftermarket-wheels-308-a.html
To "close up the wheel gap" you'll find you need to lower the car. There's a hard-and-fast rule of thumb that the tire has to occupy MORE THAN 50% of the space between the rim and the fender to avoid the 4x4 look. I selected the tallest tires I could fit on 18s, in consideration of this appearance issue and the roads around Detroit, and it still has a slightly awkward gap.
It's all personal preference, but many consider the best look to be the factory 16" wheels (or reproductions), or the 16" to 17" Compomotives (and similar), with the car lowered slightly to close the gap as reference above. Larger wheel sizes (18" or 19") simply don't look right to most people and require yet more lowering to make the low profile tires look acceptable in the wheel well.
Going to larger wheels in my opinion is not the issue. I think the overall look is the part that I don't care for. If you don't change the rotors and calipers then you have this huge wheel with a little disk . To me that ruins the look but if you upgrade the brakes then it balances out. You can get away with the 16" repros but if you go larger than that it looks funny. My 2 cents
Agreed 100%. I went with some ESM 002s on mine mostly for the purpose of using some good 17" rubber, and having some cheapy wheels I wont feel guilty about beating up. My favorite look by far is the compomotives, but I saw one with Fikse FM5s and I kinda like those too. Lowering the car is going to be the only way to close the wheel gap, but you'll find if you get a car with the deep chin spoiler, it likes to hit everything at stock ride height, so if you do lower the car, expect to wince every time you go up or down an awkward incline. On another note, why bother thinking modifying a car you dont have yet? Many of these already have compomotives, or superformance 16s on them already. A few come up for sale lowered. Thinking about what you might do kinda fits up there with daydreaming, and they arent getting any cheaper!
