work meister offsets

Hello everyone,

I'm looking at buying a set of work meister s1r but have no idea what size and offset to go for. I currently have a set of 19's but want to change to 18's in an effort to improve the ride quality. I have rolled arches and chris wilson fast road bilsteins which have lowered the car about 25mm. I want quite an aggresive offset but obviously dont want them to rub if I'm going to spend so much money on wheels! Any help would be greatly appreciated

You need to decide what width you want first before looking at offsets

good point! I currently have 8.5js on the front and 9.5js on the rear, but could I get 9js on the front and 10js on the rear?

We have Work Meister S1's in 18" Gunmetal

Sizes are

Front: 18x9.5J ET37

Rear: 18x11.5J ET49

Tyre sizes

265/35/18

315/30/18

We have rolled rear arches and that's it, wheels sit flush with the arches.

chris, you are an absolute legend! do you have any pics of them on your car please? I would never have thought you could get wheels that wide on a almost stock bodied supra, they are massive! are your arches not flared at all? the lips on mine have literally just been rolled upwards, they havent been hit flat or anything.

thanks chris. those wheels fit perfect. your car looks amazing by the way! Your wheels are the 3 piece s1' and I'm looking at the 2 piece s1' so I wonder if the fitment would be different? I was hoping to get a bigger dish on the rears if possible

Thanks, yes they are a perfect fit for how we wanted. Took me roughly 2 months to work out the correct offsets etc. We wanted a wide wheel which we could fit some decent size rubber on for traction etc as the car is almost 800bhp on ethanol. But also wanted it to fill the arch nicely at the same time, I think overall it's worked out great.

wow thats impressive, I'm nowhere near that figure:( What suspension do you use? and how much is it lowered by?

It's on BC coilovers, not sure exactly how low but it's a fingers width between the wheel arch and tyre, so fairly low

I would say copy Chris' widths and offsets. I have seen their car and the wheels are perfectly proportioned.

You could go wider on the front although it's unnecessary and you will experience the effects of tram lining more.

315 on the rear is enough for anyone!

Tram lining (incase you arent already aware) is when your wheels 'slip' into the grooves of the road that have been caused by years of traffic.. mostly on motorways and dual carriageways.

Its much more prominent with wide wheels and tyres.

thanks for your advice buddy, yes his car does look awesome. As much as I'd want to copy his sizes, I dont need tyres that big, I'm only bpu, and the prices for tyres that wide is crazy!!!

Alex at driftworks is recommending 9.5j et35 with a 235/40/18 on the front and 10.5j et35 with a 275/35/18 on the rear. My only problem now is how big is the dish going to be one the rears? Has anyone on here got works meister s1r's in 10.5 j's?

I have 10.5 on mine (Volk GTC), project thread link below or my garage

Stock wheel sizes/offsets

Front 17x8 +50 - 235/45R17

Rear 17x9.5 +50 - 255/40R17

You are increasing wheel width so to keep the same Wheel backspacing you will need to subtract the difference in Extra Wheel width from the OE Offset

As you have retained the same back spacing as OE and increased the width of the wheel , the wheel will move outward towards the curb

Fitting larger wheels can and will affect the Scrub radius due to change in tire contact patch , this can affect stopping distances , handling ,

I am not too sure if you can adjust the scrub radius on a Supra , some cars you can

I am sure somebody more knowledgeable like Mr Wilson will be along with his pitch fork and lynch mob We are screwing up what some poor Toyota chap spent hours calculating for the pleasure of Aesthetics

On 9.5 and 10.5 widths , my car is on the brink of adjustment ; if you are doing any bushes in future , worth investing in the SuperPro , they allow additional adjustment

9.5 / 10.5 OE back spacing

Front Width 8 (OE) , new with 9.5 , difference of 15 mm , 50 -15 = 35

Rear Width 9.5 (OE) , new with 10.5 , difference of 10 mm , 50 -10 = 40

Thanks for the info jellybean, that makes interesting reading Your car is very nice by the way! Hahaha, to be honest, the reason I'm buying new wheels is because of Mr Wilson! He is unimpressed with my 19" wheels so Ive decided to take the plunge and go down to 18's, I'm just not a fan of the lexus wheels as they have no dish, so thought a set of expensive works wheels would be the next best thing

I have spacers on my car to compensate for the widebody

Oe setup should look good with

Size:5X114.3 10.5J ET+37 (REAR)

Wheels Size:5X114.3 9.5J ET+24 (FRONT)

are those the sizes you are using jellybean? Alex has said that I would need to get a small stretch on the tyres to stop them from rubbing with an offset of 35 front and rear on a 9.5J and 10.5J wheel