355 After Market Alloys - Lets See What You Got

all in "my opinion", nothing against others setups..

the stock 18's are the cleanest, classic/modern look..

design of 355 challenge rims make them look like 17's. dont like them, but understand track specific use offers advantages.

360 stock rims, dont match the 355 at all.

430 stock 19's are the best match alternative oem type rims. and theres only one car we know of with them.

the rare modular 18" 355 rims.. dont like them.. looks like 17's.

if going aftermarket, max 19's. 20's way too big.
and if on 19's, car must be lowered to avoid monster truck look. big wheel gap is awful
look wise some aftermarket 18's could work.

my dream setup would be a set of 19" challenge stradale rims.. but thats not possible without shaving the rears..

 

Those are BBS Motorsport E88. Forged and backmilled aluminum works of art. Superceded the E28.

 

Don't sugar coat it, tell me what you really think! After all, this is the internet, so you can hide behind your keyboard and say things you wouldn't say to someone's face

 

First look it's different then second look it look good

What throws it off is what you said the beige interior

Thats easy enough to change

my yellow spider has white wheels and I may be putting in a full white interior I have to match so it looks like a creamsicle mmmmmmmmmmmmm yummy

 

Wheels on my car. They look like Challenge wheels, except that they're not. They're aluminum and have a polished edge. Downside is that they're not as light as the Challenge mag wheels. Upside is that they're a lot stronger and not as susceptible to cracking and warping as the Challenge wheels.

 

I love me Challenge wheels
They plow through stuff like a Swamp Donkey and look for another fight

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I like this look, Seyhan ..... I think the bronz/rosso look works perfectly on the early 308's ,also .
BR,
Jez

 

No idea why pic didn't appear in first post, so I'll try again
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Challenge wheels take a licking and keep on ticking...

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Yours are looking good, Tim.

 

What brand are those, Mark?

 

Maybe on the track. But one of my rear Challenge wheels didn't last too long a few years back when I lived in NJ.

 

Good question. I'm not sure to be honest as I haven't had the wheels off the car (to check the brand) since I bought it in June. They were on the car when I bought it from the previous owner, and on the car when he bought it from sherpa23. So if Ryan sees this thread, maybe he'll chime in as he knows the whole backstory with the wheels. He told me some of it, but the story has already slipped my mind.

To my admittedly untrained - though former aerospace engineer - eye (and fwiw), they appear to be very high quality (HRE-like). For the street, potentially a better choice than the Speedline Challenge wheels . . . unless one lives where roads tend to be smooth and pothole free.

 

They might be an older style Fikse Profil 5

 

Whatever they are, they look nice on that silver car.

 

They mighty be SAC wheels. Sounds like the wheels I had on my old TR. I think they were made or distributed by Speedline.

 

I think that you're on to something. If I remember correctly, they are associated with Speedline but aren't made in Italy, they're made in Japan. Again, I haven't verified any of this but it's ringing a bell from a conversation that I had with the guy who originally installed them.

 

Thanks! I also had been looking for a set of the OEM Challenge wheels. Thought I'd refinish them in white and would switch between the wheels currently on the car (silver) and the white Challenge wheels depending on my mood (and whether I'm driving the car longer distance or just to an event). I think the white wheels on a silver car would look a bit more subtle, yet still have enough contrast, than when they're paired with a darker color car.

 

They are SAC wheels - Speedline America Corporation. I bought the remainder of Ferrari stock when they were sold to Champion Motorsports. They are forged aluminum and made in Japan to a very, very high quality. Any Porsche guys who have Champion Motorsports wheels essentially have the same wheels.

Mark, I am the one who put those on your car (when I owned it). I pulled them out of the box and everything. I sold a few sets to Fchatters and there is another pattern. I believe that ///Mink on here has a set on his 550.

 

Thanks Barry, They sure are perdy

 

Now I know what wheels I want to put on my 348, since I think they'd look great on a black car, but I'm sure they're pretty much unobtainium at this point. Sad how difficult it is to find well made decent looking wheels for any car anymore, let alone wheels in non-ghetto diameters for older cars.

 

Fikse makes the Profil 5 which has a spoke design similar to the Challenge wheel. That's why I mistook the wheels on Mark's car for Fikses.

Here's their website: Fikse Custom Performance & Race Wheels, Porsche BMW Corvette CamaroFikse Forged Wheels

For Profil 5: High Performance Wheels | Aluminum Wheels | Race WheelsFikse Forged Wheels

Here's what the Fikse Profil 5 looks like fit to a 550 Maranello...

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Seems to trend that way, as 17/18" enthusiast wheels have fallen by the wayside in market popularity. There is a period OZ Racing in a very similar 1-piece 5 spoke formulation (believe mag-alloy as well?) as well that is NLA.

However, HRE makes some great wheels, and their 305M forged 5-spoke monobloc fits the classic look for the 348/f355 bodies.
Classic Series - 305M | HRE Performance Wheels

The BBS 18" 360 CS wheels also look great for another oem+ option aside from the usual f355 and 360 swaps. A local acquaintance has a set on his 348 Spyder that looks excellent.

 

I love Fikses, and have a set of Profil 5s in my basement. Lovely wheels with a great aesthetic. It does a good job of straddling the aesthetic line between multipiece and monobloc style wheels with their hidden bolt design.

 

Barry, I have 4 sets of the Fikse Profil 5 and you are correct, they are exceptional wheels . But those wheels that you posted look exactly like the SAC wheels, not the Fikse wheels. Did you buy them directly from Fikse or from someone else who told you what they suspected they were?

FYI, the Fikse Ferrari wheels are multi piece wheels and the SAC are one piece wheels.

Here are some Fikse Profil 5 wheels on my F40.
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