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Rota TBT's.... anyone running them?


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I seriously considered going with the TBTs on my Z, but without being able to actually see them on the car, I chickened out. Went with the SPD zuka wheels from japngarage instead. I love the zukas but still wonder how the TBTs would have looked.

 

Maybe if they had additional finish/color options they might be more popular.

 

Also seems like Rota needs to do better at marketing. Hey Rota send me a set of TBTs and I will be happy to get some installed-on-Z pictures out there!!!

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Aesthetics aside, the appeal is that a 4-lug pattern is propagated into the webbing of the wheel.  I'm not a structural engineer, but intuition suggests that such usage of a 4-pattern makes possible a lighter/stronger wheel, than if the lug-pattern were ignored (meaning, for example, a 5-spoke wheel in 4-lug pattern).

 

Unfortunately this wheel does not appear on Rota's web site, http://www.rotawheels.com/wheels.php .  A simpleminded Google search reveals an offering from Amazon, in 15x8, but unfortunately in the Miata lug spacing, 4x100mm: https://www.amazon.com/NEW-ROTA-TBT-15X8-PCD/dp/B01DB7M8R6 .  Has anyone seen this wheel in 4x114.3? Or any specs on weight?

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