Priced at 28,038 YEN per wheel, this 15-inch cast wheel is made specifically for the Nissan Micra (k13). However, with the 4×100 bolt pattern available, the NISMO MC-8 PLUS is intended for the k-car market in Japan. In 2015, NISMO has stopped the production for MC-8 model and has replaced it with the MC-8 Plus model.īuilt & visual-wise, it doesn’t seem there is any difference between the MC-8 & MC-8 Plus version. However, unlike the MM-8, the MC-8 is a cast wheel. Thus, for those who are looking for a wheel that has a similar design with the MM-8, the MC-8 / MC-8 Plus is your go-to wheel. The MC-8 wheel is modeled after the MM-8 forged wheel. Like the NISMO LM GT MAG, this wheel only comes in one size, which is 15×6 ET 40 with the 4×100 bolt pattern. It’s a 1-piece forged wheel built for the circuit and it said to be 33% lighter than OEM wheels back then. This wheels originally come in two colors: Silver & White. That said, it is still a very rare sight to see anyone with this wheel on the road today. This might due to it’s the affordable price and resulted in more people owning in. Unlike the LM GT MAG, you still can find the wheel pop-up once a while at our store – Croooober. The NISMO MM-8 is another rare wheel dated back all the way to 2003. A single LM GT MAG wheel was price up to 137,500 YEN which is twice the cost of a single LM GT4 wheel today. As it was made with magnesium, it was a really pricy wheel. It was only offered in one specification which was the 5×114.3 bolt pattern in 20×10 ET 20. Made from Magnesium, this 1-piece wheel is built for specifically for the BCNR33 and BNR34 GT-R chassis. If you do a Google search on this wheel, you can barely find more than 20 photos on it. It is unsure when was it in production but it dates all the way back to 2004. The NISMO LM GT MAG is a very old version of NISMO Wheel. At that time I had no idea just how desirable or cool these wheels were and only after parting ways with them I learned about their history of being made in Italy and being partnered with BBS during that era to build wheels for Ferrari and other major brands, plus just how much the FC RX7 community loves them.Who doesn’t love the simple yet aggressive design of the NISMO LM GT4?īut how many of you are aware of the other NISMO wheels, what their story behind and if they are forged or cast? Here in this, article, we are going to look at every single wheel and explore the story behind them. In 2016 I pulled these off of an old Crown Victoria LTD I got for free and drove while I waited for my Skyline to arrive in Canada. When I finished up on Dylan’s wheels he let me know that he snagged back my old 16×7 0mm Speedline S元90 mesh wheels. To really top things off while I was sanding my life away on the Longchamps, Dylan was quietly working out a deal with our friend Dan to surprise me with a set of wheels that I owned many years ago. Patience definitely gets rewarded during a process like this and after five hours of giving ourselves carpal tunnel syndrome, the results spoke for themselves. The centre spokes were only sanded up to 1000 grit to leave them with a dull brushed aluminum finish, and the lips were sanded to 2000 grit prior to receiving the hand polish. Eventually, we will hit the lips with machine-applied polish to hopefully get them up to a mirror finish, but for now, even with all the steps being done by hand, the wheels look excellent. We got to work refurbishing the wheels and took them through half a dozen grits of sandpaper (all applied by hand) and then shined up the lips with a hand-applied layer of Eagle One Nevr-Dull. It was good to see Sandra’s R32 in its new home beside Matt’s R32, which is one of our favourite local Skylines. He demonstrated his boomer tactics of wearing PPE around his neck and smoking darts while sanding with a sander that’s hooked directly to a hot dog compressor with no lines. Although being in decent condition overall with no visible curb rash, dents, deep scratches or bends we decided to refurbish them before he puts tires on because there was some oxidization on the spokes and lips and Dylan planned on replacing all the hardware anyways.Ī few days after acquiring them we headed out to the shop where Sandra’s R32 now lives and had the opportunity to catch up with Keegan who recently picked up a few old Corollas. After a few months of searching for a pair of fifteen-inch, five-lug, five-spoke Longchamps, Dylan managed to find some locally and scooped them up immediately.
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