- How's it goin' guys?
You may have noticed that I'm not Alex
and holy (beep) dudes, I suck,
but I'm Jarrod with Fitment Industries
and I'm here to tell you guys
about how I made 12 1/2 wide Concept One Forged wheels
fit on my bagged Infinity G35.
So how I and how Fitment Industries kind of started
hearing about Concept One was actually
through Klutch Wheels.
So Klutch Wheels back at SEMA 2017,
we met up with them.
They were the first ones to send us
a bunch of samples of their wheels.
They sent us over a dozen
between Klutch and Concept One.
Concept One is actually owned by Klutch.
And so, between all the wheels they sent us,
all the cast ones for both Klutch,
Klutch Offroad, Concept One,
and then the Concept One Forged three-piece wheel
they sent us,
as soon as I saw that wheel come out of the box,
I fell in love.
We've got pictures showing all the wheels they sent us.
We did a bunch of videos.
It was awesome!
The three-piece wheel that Concept One sent us
really screamed like luxury and clean.
It was a super bad ass style and design,
and the finish was exactly what I wanted too.
It has like a brushed face with gold hardware
and a gold center cap,
and I just could totally see that wheel on my G35
and knew that I wanted to go with that.
Now the specs I went with were kind of aggressive.
Just based off of Fitment Industries gallery,
what I'd seen on Instagram
and some stuff talking to some guys,
there wasn't much as far as the aggressive sizing
that I wanted,
so I kind of had to go out on a limb
and kind of guess at the measurements I wanted
to get as close as possible.
I had run a 19 by 9.5 and 19 by 11,
front and rear prior,
so I kind of knew based on test footing that 11-wide
that was on the rear on the front
what I wanted to do for new specs
with these Concept One wheels.
I ended up going with a 19 by 11 in the front, zero offset,
and then a 19 by 12.5 negative five in the rear.
The reason for the 12.5 in the rear
versus a 12 like I was originally gonna go with
was that extra 1/2 inch would give me more
of the concavity that I wanted.
A lot of guys would go with either a left wheel
or a concave wheel, and with this style,
I really felt that it already had a decent sized lip on it,
and I wanted to go more concave
as it's a car, car wheel, car styling and design.
So I opted for the more concave look,
so I ran a 12.5.
Now, test footing those was awesome,
they looked super sexy,
but they were pretty riot in the rear.
Running a 12.5-negative five in the rear of a car,
even though the G35s do have pretty wide bodies
that you can fit some pretty big wheels under.
A 12.5 is still pretty aggressive
so I actually had to roll my fenders flat
and then pull them a decent amount too
to get these wheels to sit fender to lip
how I wanted them to.
And then I also had to run
some Voodoo13 camber arms in the rear,
and those got me the adjustability that I needed
to sit fender to lip in the rear.
After about a month and a half of messing around
and trying to get it dialed and in perfect,
it's finally sitting exactly how I want it to
front and rear.
Front is still stocked.
There's no camber arms or anything like that in the front.
There's no camber adjustment on my stock air ride system,
so the front is just as it is,
and they fit perfect,
and then the rears,
I had to do the adjustments with the camber
to get 'em to sit exactly as I wanted.
So that took a little bit to dial in and get perfect,
but now it's exactly what I wanted,
exactly what I was envisioning,
so I'm glad I went with the more aggressive specs
just because of the fact that
I have something that's a little
edgy, it's not on the safe side.
I wanted something that was aggressive
that you can tell looks aggressive
when you see the car.
I'm probably sitting at about
negative eight degrees of camber all around
then to get it to sit exactly how I want.
So now for tire size,
I ran with a 245-35 in the front
on my 19 by 11s,
and then in the rear, I ran a 275-35 on my 19 by 12.5s.
I actually went through three sets of tires
before I finally got some to seat on the rears
fitting a 12.5 wide wanting to run
some super stretchy tires to sit fender to lip.
It was not fun.
I went through two sets of 265-30s
and neither of them stretched the amount
I needed to to get 'em to actually seat,
so I had to bump up a size.
I went to a 275-35 then.
Part of it was just getting it done on time
to go to one of the local shows
and having tires to make it there.
I probably could have gone with a slightly smaller size
if I'd wanted to, but a 275-35 is what they had nearest
where I got my tires mounted,
so I ran with that.
So 245-35 in the front,
275-35 in the rear.
It is pretty stretched,
but it's exactly what I needed
to sit fender to lip.
I'm super happy with it,
and obviously this car is on air ride too,
and all of this you can conveniently pick up
at FitmentIndustries.com which is where I work.
Air ride, wheels, tires, Concept One Forged, CF-003SX.
Peace!
Oh, wait, is it still rolling?
And I'm all strutting 6P/three-piece spiked lug nuts,
so if you're interested,
you can check those out
on fitmentindustries.com as well.
Ding!