Wheels for 03' WRX?

The smallest, heaviest possible: bomb proof for gravel.

Team Dynamics PRO RALLY Wheels - Primitive Racing

Probably not the suggestion one would expect, but that's why I made it. If that doens't work you'll have to be more specific, since I'm assuming you want only gravel 15" wheels.

If for whatever reason you don't want gravel 15s, maybe a 17X7.5 would look nice. I'd stick with bright white and go with tall sidewall tires. Sparco:

http://get-primitive.com/wheels-ral...white/wheel_bolt_pattern-5_x_100_most_subaru_

Frankly, if you have the stock 16s, those are Enkei and are excellent quality. People put 18s or even worse on the car but I can't fathom why. Max I'd go is 17X8, but that's again just IMO.

A huge advantage of my choices: they are considered unfashionable if not outright ugly by the "stretch" or "stance" crowd or whatever they call that now.

There used to be a nearly ubiquitous O.Z. gravel wheel, I'd seen it on everything from Lancias to Peugeots, and it was white with red "O.Z. Racing" lettering. All the money. I've not seen them in the wild in years though.

O.Z. now sells a tarmac wheel in the same "style" but it's just not as heavy, meaty, or bombproof as the gravel wheel of old -- plus it's bigger and so more fasionable (read: I'm out!). However, I think Compomotive still makes a small heavy gravel wheel that looked like the old O.Z.

If this pic shows up, here are wheels with a 4-bolt Ford pattern (presumably for a GrN or higher Fiesta of some sort):

I'm also a huge fan of color-mismatched, front-wheel-only cooling disks.

These have been banned from competition for years, but they have great nostalgia value and if they didn't work, they'd not be banned. If this image comes up, I believe it's Didier Auriol in the "Deltona" HF Integrale and we're probably looking at the highest evolution by that time. I'm thinking an old Tour de Corse? Anyway:



I love that they're completely impractical, expensive, considered outright ugly by anyone that likes cars made this century (I can't imagine why people do, but they seem to), add weight, are banned from serious motorsport, make the front end look very odd, are not fitted on the rear at all, and so on. They have the subtlety of a rhino.

XJman said:

That is the Delta that made my mouth water as a kid, the front guarded/vented wheels is what sparked my interest in the gravel wheel as well.

I know those oz wheels. I've only ever seen a handful in the wild, and they always give the car a solid look

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I've seen them broken at the "inner" disk where it meets the "teeth" of the outer disk, but I imagine those must have been massive yumps and kidney-smashing impacts. The lookalike tarmac wheels are nowhere near as stout, they won't survive an Acropolis or a Cyprus.

Road cars used the disks (or fans) too. I think this is a 962 but can't tell it apart from a 956 at this age:

I pulled this pic from a Wordpress blog (is the (c) G. Miranda's?) because I remember the incident. Ove Andersson had finally gotten the world to stop laughing at Japanese rally cars (well, at Toyotas; the world was still very amused with Subarus at that point; the Legacy was a van and McRae frequently didn't keep the shiny side up for all that long, but I digress). So at the Acropolis they had high hopes, but Markku Alén planted the Celica into a ravine, and Armin Schwarz landed his car on Alén's. I suppose Alén and Kivimaki had both exited at that point, but I don't remember. Fun times.

The wheels made it though it seems.

OTOH one person who no doubt supports rally proof wheels would be Arne Hertz. That's no way to travel across Britain.