i know there was a post along time ago trying to find out, but i can't find it...

trying to find the specs on the wheels if anyone might know?

 

Those wheels are Coddington Rodder wheels....they are 18x8.5 in front, and 18x9.5 in the rear.....as for backspacing....cant help ya there,

 

i once new the owner as he does post on here occasionally, however i've lost his name and his email. doesn't anyone know or have a more detailed article possibly?

how do you know the size? i'm not positive but on boyd's website they can only be ordered in full measurements so it would be 8,9,10, etc.

8 is way to skinny so i was thinking around a 18x9 front and 18x10 rear if i were to go with those. although i really like that exact look so i would like to know the exact size.

 

I know that those are the wheel sizes because it says so in the winter 2002 Camaro Performers magazine.......that picture you posted is the article that I got the info on it....the magazine is sitting in front of me because that is one of my favorite third gens. I dont know if they are the correct sizes, but thats what it says in the article of the magazine.

 

i can tell you everything about those wheels as i am buying them this summer

they are the boyd coddington rodder 5s...

they will fit our cars with NO MODIFICATION whatsoever, or at least all the offsets i've seen for sale will...

 

Those are nice wheels.

 

You can order any size width you want (even 13" wide!). They also custom make the offset and backspacing to your liking, so its possible to get a perfect bolt on fit nomatter what size wheel you want. My Boyds are the Tuned series 18x8 front with 4.5 backspacing and 18x9.5 rear with 5.5 backspacing. Returned the original tires I bought (defect), getting ready to order a different set. Anyway, will be 245's in front and 275's in the rear. I could have gone with wider wheels, but I went with these sizes because I want the wheels to tuck the fenderwells when the car is slammed. Daily drive height will be a 1.8" drop front/rear, but for shows/pics it will be dropped 3" front/rear (Slammed!).

 

does it give any info on the suspension specs. also, what tire and profile are they using.....

i'd like to get ahold of that issue just so i could read it. i love the look of the car along with the stance.

boyd says on their website that they only make them in full numbers, if they made them in halves that would be great as a 8.5 is much better then a 8.

 

as for the suspension on the car, it has BBK lower trailing arms, lingenfelter adjustable panhard bar, Suspension Techniques spindles, and 2 1/4 inch lowering springs with tokico shocks.
As for tires, He is running Sumitomo 234/40s on the front, and 235/35s on the rear....hope this helps some.

 

Those wheels would look 110% at home on your car Kandied!!! IMO much, much better than the Z06!!


Ken

 

thanks, i'm puzzled though because boyd says they haven't and won't make them in half sizes.....

a 234 seems like an odd number, you sure it isn't a 235 on the front.

a 235 35 on the rear seems way to narrow for a 9.5 rim you sure it isn't a 275 or at least 265???


i'm not doubting you but the information is very different. do you have the name of the date, issue no. so i could write the mag and ask them myself???

 

yeah my fault is was a 235 i hit the wrong key
everything that i put came straight from the article, and I thought it seemed alittle odd myself.
as for the issue all it says is the winter 2002 Camaro Performers, which is operated by superchevy.....the name of the article is
FROM FATHER TO SON.. again hope the info helps, but that is the best i can do


Golden

 

no problem, i appreciate it.

they must have gotten it wrong....it's probably a 8" front 9" rear combo as they don't make half sets...in fact most billet companies don't really make a half width rim for some reason?

thanks alot!

 

Who from Boyd told you they dont make 1/2 sizes? I think they are giving you bad info. Boyd made my rear wheels 18x9.5. For the fronts, I could have gone with 18x8.5 or even 18x9 but I wanted to stick as close to OEM as possible (width wise) so I went with 18x8. When you choose the width of your aftermarket wheels, keep your suspension setup in mind. If the car will be low enough for the rim to tuck the fender (like on my car) then you might want to think twice about going extra wide. Going extra wide will prevent your car from being slammed really low because the tire starts to contact parts of the inner fenderwell. You can do inner fenderwell modifications to accomidate wider wheels, but its all up to how much work you want to do (or how much you want to spend). Because I plan to slam my car 3+" for shows, I went with sizes that would allow maximum tucking (purely for looks). If you dont plan to go that extreme you can run wider wheels and it will be fine. I wouldn't consider it impossible to run 18x9.5 front and 18x11 rears because other people have run the same widths, just with 17's instead of 18's. Definately would require alot of research for the perfect fit, but its possible. I couldnt justify going through all that trouble because my car is a street car and I dont need super wide wheels to drive around. I'm just interested in the perfect stance with the rim tucking under the fender (front/rear). Revlimit has the best example I've seen yet of (what I consider) the perfect stance but I dont have any pics. His car is SLAMMED!!!

 

so with your experience would you say that a 8" front and a 9.5" rear is the widest you could go to get the drop look?


could you get away with a 8.5 in the front or is that pushing it?

i had 9.5 front and 10.5 rear and there was no way to drop the car. i don't want that again. main reason i got rid of them is because the stance is so important and i couldn't achieve what i wanted.

i want to go as wide as possible so they don't look like tuner wheels, yet give me the option of lowering the car. while i don't think 3-4 is in my sights a 2 to 3" at most is definately what i'm going for.

 

Kandied, you say you DID pull off 9.5" in the front? Was that with any drop? What were the specs on the rims? Any problems?

 

sure i fit 9.5" up front...however it the outer edge of the wheel lined up exactly with the inner outer fender if you can understand that.

anything more then a 1" drop and i would have ripped the fender off. since i'm looking for more then that they had to go.

the rims were a 65+ offset which was crazy but i made them work. for those who aren't looking to go low it would have been fine!

 

Yup, from my experience, 8 in the front and 9.5 in the rear is the widest you can go with and still tuck the wheel without having to make inner fenderwell modifications. You can go wider and still tuck if you do inner fenderwell modifications, but it all depends on how much work you want to put into it. Since my car is a daily driver I didnt want to do any inner fenderwell modifications.

 

RATS! So a 2" drop and 18x9.5 (275) on all four corners would require some "hacking"? How big of a mess would the inner fenderwell modifications be?

Edit: I've done a lot of homework but a lot of info leaves out lowered suspension, and you guys seem to have the experiece to supply good advice.

 

you will be stuck with stock suspension and not the stock 10 year old worn spring height....were talking a 2-3" fender gap height.

you could lower the car with an eibach pro-kit and technically be ok. if you were to hit a major bump you would take out your fenders for sure. go any lower and without question.

whoever stated that you can fit 9.5 and wider on these cars with no modifications and work like stock was way off.

personally i'd rather have a mildly lowered vehicle then a stock height just to fit the wide tires.

and then there is how the car handles with the wider tires.....won't even get into that aspect.

for all out road racing i agree that the wider tire is nice. if you do that though you will heavily modify the body anyway so it's a different story and all the pita reasons not to like them on the street aren't important.

i will be going with an 8 in the front and either a 9 or 9.5 depending on the wheel company as soon as i make up my mind. seeing as how 4 out of 6 companies i've enquired about can't build quicker then 5 weeks and the other 2 are on back order i'm not in a hurry any more so i'm going to sit back and reconsider exactly what i'm going for.

1 thing is for sure it won't be any different then the above specs and it will have a nice clean appearance with a deep dish. preferably billet.

 

It all depends on what kind of look you want. Is it OK with you to have a little fender gap? A streetable setup with no "hacking" means you will have a little fender gap. The lower you want the car to be (to get that slammed look), the more "hacking" you'll have to do. Take a look as these pics from Zepher (thanks Zepher!!) as an example. Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3. Here is a 17x9.5 wheel in front with 275/40/17 tires and NO springs. This is pretty much the extreme of lowering with 275's on front. The only thing holding the wheels from tucking further into the fender is the inner fenderwell itself. If you want to go lower than this, then you either need to start "hacking" or go with a smaller wheel/tire. Lets look at another Extreme, here's some other pics from LowCamaro (thanks LowCamaro!) that show you what can be done when you dont go as wide. Pic 1(might not work, just paste the URL into your browser), Pic 2. Here is a 18x8 wheel with 225/30/18 tires and AirBag suspension (he made it himself!! he's the man!!). Notice when its at the lowest setting the wheel tucks under the fender giving it that SLAMMED look. thats the look I'm going for. Compare the look of the 225's to the look of the 275's and you'll see the difference the width makes when you want to go low.

So if both of those examples of stance are too extreme compared to what you want, then you should be OK with running 275's on front. As long as you dont go lower than 2" and you dont run more than a 40 sidewall (18" wheel), then you should be OK. If you do want to go a little lower you can run hard specific rate springs (like 700lb or 800lb) to protect your front tires from contacting the fenderwells.

I just cant wait to get my stance worked out. It would have been ready a few weeks ago but I dont have the right springs, so I'm still deciding what I'm gonna do (spring wise). Here is what my wheels will look like: here they are photoshopped onto 3.1EyeCandy's sweet GTA. Good luck with your wheels!!

 

That pic came from my webspace somehow... I think easyspeed punked it. I scanned it from a mag with the article that was mentioned "From Father to Son" I originally scanned it to ask Easyspeed if I should go with those wheels and the focker stole my idea

I'm loving rodder 5's, hot rods and BMW fitment rondell 58 and 72's right now.

I think you could polish a set of rondell 58's and they would look almost identical to Coddington Tuners for 1/2 the price.