I wasn't sure whether to have this under wheels or under brakes but maybe a few who have done this might be able to help. I'm hoping to get 18inch rims for this brake combo but haven't seen many examples as most used 19inch rims. Other examples use the smaller camaro 14inch rotor instead of the 14.5 inch which i'm guessing the bracket moves the caliper slighter towards the center but every millimeter makes a difference, there must be a reason they seem to choose the slightly smaller rotor. I would hope to use the hawks new rim the 18x10 Firehawk but as they are still on pre-order there hasn't been anyone to ask for fitment. They state they fit the baer front pro+ which is 7.8in from center line to outermost point of the caliper. And i believe my mine is 8inches center line to outermost point. Hopefully someone has had experience with this combo and has examples of rims that fit.



Loosely fitted to see how it looks.

 

I noticed no replies so I had to chime in...you need a internal 17 inch of diameter of rim for those, the fire hawks if designed like original will not clear the calipers even with the larger diameter. Figure about 1.75-2.50 inches from wheel mount pad to caliper for spoke clearance....Look at a CTSV wheel profile then look at your fire hawk spoke profile, that will show you that these need some accommodations.

 

Thanks, I guess I’ll have to look up more modern looking wheels was hoping for a more period correct looking wheel but won’t seem possible. I’ll look into cts v forums and see if I get one with a close enough offset that I need.

 

Incase anyone was curious what rim I ended up going with, I picked up the VMR v710 18x9.5 ET 22 backspacing 6.62. Rim is cheap coming in at 250$ and it fits the CTSV2 CTS-v 6 piston caliper 09-14 (Making it easier to search in the future). I put a 1 inch adapter 5x4.75 to 5x120 and there was some room Between the caliper and rim. i had a 12mm hubcentric spacer but with the rotor on it the rotor would cover the lip of the hub so it just became a regular spacer that moved around so i didnt want to use wobble nuts on that, also you would need to bore out the center of the rim a bit as the hub starts hitting not letting it sit flush (only when using a small spacer). I plan to buy a slightly thinner adapter at 0.75" thickness, it will be about 1" with the rotor in place from the face of the hub.

 

test fitting rim to see how it looked and how far out it went out,used 1.5" spacer as thats what i had available at the time.

 

Updating the same thread I had started just to finish it up. More pics with the actual caliper and rim setup.