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ROLLING<br />
WORDS Sean Klingelhoefer SNAPS Staff and<br />
HARD<br />
courtesy of TOYO<br />
NEW KICKS FOR OUR RALLIART SPORTBACK<br />
As any tuner can tell you, a good<br />
wheel set is the quintessential<br />
modification, capable of either<br />
making or breaking a build. With<br />
this in mind we made sure we didn’t<br />
slouch on our wheel selection and decided to go with<br />
one of the best known, oldest and highest quality<br />
brands in our market: SSR.<br />
The SSR Type-F is a relatively new wheel and<br />
is constructed by their patented SSF (semi-solid<br />
forged) process which is essentially a specially<br />
produced squeeze manufacturing. This provides a<br />
very strong and lightweight wheel, approaching the<br />
traits of an upper echelon forged monoblock, for<br />
much less money.<br />
Our new rollers look great in a nice gold metallic<br />
finish that isn’t quite flat but definitely doesn’t have<br />
the cheesy high-luster clear look either. We didn’t<br />
want to run something so extreme that we would<br />
have to do fender mods to get the wheels on the car<br />
so we stayed a little on the conservative side with<br />
modest sizing of 19X8.5” with +42 offset all around.<br />
To keep the car planted we chose Toyo T1R tires<br />
in 245/35ZR19 sizing for our sportback. These tires<br />
will provide plenty of grip and tread wear and make<br />
an excellent daily tire with potential for track time<br />
further down the line. We’re definitely excited to get<br />
our wheel and tire package on the car and begin the<br />
transformation. Stay tuned as we take our Ralliart<br />
from super stock to Super Street.<br />
SOURCES: www.toyotires.com,<br />
www.more-japan.com (SSR)<br />
80 SUPER STREET FEBRUARY 2010<br />
www.storemags.com & www.fantamag.com
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