will NSX wheels fit an ITR???

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will NSX wheels fit an ITR???

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will the polished 7 spoe wheels fit ITR?? Like the ones that cam on 97-01 NSX's??
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Hope that answers your questions :lol:
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Gee Rob - I was going to post the same pictures ;)

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I thought of this car at first too........ hehehe:lol:
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What's that old saying?...

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Re: will NSX wheels fit an ITR???

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It's not that simple.

You have a couple of problems using NSX wheels on the ITR. One is the offset, which is 55 mm for NSX front wheels, 60 mm for NSX rear wheels, vs 50 mm on the ITR. The bigger problem is the center bore (diameter of the center hole), which is 70 mm for NSX front wheels, 64 mm for NSX rear wheels and for ITR wheels.

What you have is rear wheels whose offset is not appropriate for the ITR, and front wheels whose center bore is not appropriate for the ITR. I know that you can put NSX front wheels onto the ITR, but using wheels whose center bore is too big, without using hubcentric rings (which you would have to fabricate because you can't just buy them anywhere) is just asking for problems with wheel balancing. (There are plenty of topics on various forums about people who have run into problems with mismatched center bores, which is probably what the car in the picture has.)

Bottom line: I know quite a bit about both cars and about wheels and tires, and I strongly recommend not using NSX wheels on the ITR unless you have a machine shop that can fabricate custom hubcentric rings for you.
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Ken, on that note...

Rotas SS they need hubcentric rings, but in 3+ years I have never used them and not once had a problem. How do you explain this?
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Bbasso wrote:Rotas SS they need hubcentric rings, but in 3+ years I have never used them and not once had a problem. How do you explain this?
Some people have problems, some don't. Without the hubcentric rings, you have the risk of a problem. You were lucky. It's easy enough to avoid that risk by getting wheels which have the proper center bore, or that come with hubcentric rings.
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Personally, I want my wheels to fit properly...

3 sets of wheels, 2 different sets of hub-rings = me happy.

BudMan doesn't want ANY problems while tracking the car ;)
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r those 16" or 17"?
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The seven spoke wheels came on the NSX during '97-01 model years. The identical wheel, but with a painted gunmetal finish, came on the NSX during '94-96. The NSX front wheels are 16x7 and the NSX rear wheels are 17x8.5. I'm guessing that the car in the photo has four of the NSX front wheels (the ones with the different center bore from the ITR hub), since the width of the rears is a bit much for an ITR.
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Post by Addicted2Racing »

so I guess you can't put the 17 x 8.5's on it cause it's too wide? What about rolling the fenders? or using wheel spacers?

DAMN, those are clean!
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