Having done our homework, we ordered up a set of R888’s in confidence. When they arrived a few days later however we got a little surprise.
In short, there’s no way these 295 R888’s were going to fit under our stock fenders without some serious metal bending. Reluctant to look like idiots crawling back Toyo to order a different size we started considering widebody options so we could make these tires work when as if on queue we saw the announcement of the Rocketbunny kit for the FD. As we awaited the release of the kit we saw how much wider it made the car and realized we could fit a LOT bigger tire under the rear there—in fact we would NEED a really wide tire for it not to look lame from the rear. With 4 extra inches per side we can fit Toyo’s widest 18 inch tire, the 335/30-18 if we want to. And guess what? We do! As luck would have it, our front fenders grew enough that our 295s we had planned for the rear will actually probably make a great front tire choice to match the grip of the rear!
Wheels
Ideally we’d like to find wheels that extend to the full width of the fenders without a spacer—especially in the front. However, zeroing in on the perfect fitment for a new bodykit without a lot of people using it yet and posting their wheel/tire combos online makes getting it right from the start a bit of a gamble without one of those neat offset/wheel clearance measuring tool thingies—which we don’t have.
As photos of the first Rocketbunny RX-7’s in the United States started surfacing on Instagram though we saw the guys up at On Point Motorsports in Milwaukee had one with a set of beautiful Volk Racing ZE40’s. Their fitment looked pretty close with 18×12’s with the +20mm offset option all around and a massive 50mm spacer in the rear—an effective -30 mm offset!
