i would like to get 19in wheels 10inches wide....deep dish. does anyone know a good website for cheaper wheels like 2000 or less or a good forum to find sweet used wheels? -thanks

 

the corvette wheels are kinda played, but they do have some nice deep dish versions out now on e-bay... worth checkin out considering they're well less then a grand...

 

oh yeah... ebay haha thanks il check it out

 

• (2) Front 18 x 9.5" Wheels and (2) Rear 19 x 12" Wheels
  
• +40mm Front Offset
• +59mm Rear Offset

you think those rears would fit flush with that offset?

 

youll need spacers/adapters

 

can you explain me the whole backspacing thing? i always went buy positive or negative offset

 

backspacing and offset are 2 different ways of measuring the location of the mounting surface of the wheels.

5.5" of back spacing means there is 5.5" from the inside lip of the wheel to the hub mounting surface.

offset is similar. The +/- is the distance from the center of the wheel that the mounting surface is. + is toward the outside of the wheel, - is the inside.

You will need spacers to get the outside of the wheel to be flush with the outside of the car.

The rear wheels you have listed will not fit the car without a mini-tub, unless they stick out from the side of the car over an inch.

Another important thing is the wheels width. A 18x9.5" wheels DOES NOT measure 9.5" wide, its more like 10.5". The nominal measurment is form the inside of the bead seats, not the actual outside of the rim.

So the 18x9.5 will be 10.5" wide +/- and the 19x12 will be 13" wide +/-

 

ok cool thankyou i understand i was looking at these in 8 or 9 up front and 10" in back and 3.75 backspacing


http://www.newstalgiawheel.com/wheel...ubcat3=1064101

 

your backspacing is wrong, big time!!!

for the front, i would do 4.5" of backspacing with the 8" and 5.5 with the 9". That will place the wheels just a hair further out than stock, but keep them nicely tucked under the car.

for a 10" rear, 6.5" of back spacing, may need to do some hammering in the wheel well, maybe cut off the bumpstop bulge. If you take off a wheel and place a straight edge across the drum/rotor face, and measure back you will see what kind of space you have and where you will have to hammer/trim

with 3.75 backspacing, the wheels will stick way outside the wheel wells.

make sure you do all your research and measure a bunch of times before you drop that kind of money on wheels.

 

ok thanks i see what you mean il do the measuring... and i dont plan on getting these wheels til next summer at the earliest so i have plenty of time to research..... what i was thinking with 3.75 backspacing was that would have the biggest lip. and i want them to be flush with the body so if they stick out i can roll the fenders a lil and also il have negative camber when i lower it... how many inches would you guess those wheels would stick out with 3.75 backspacing?

 

over 2" in the rear, totally unacceptable and illegal most places

The only other way to do it wold be to order an aftermarket rear in a shorter width, or have your axle shortened. But thats not cheap and a waste.

 

i see i could deal with an inch or inch n half, camber and fender roller would fix that i dont know bout 2inches tho

 

id be fine with the wheels sticking out like this





but id prefer this

 

well, the first pic looks like totaly crap, but the 12's will stick out much further than that.

the last pic is sweet, and totally doable with the right wheel

 

2nd picture is sickness (hehe). Anyways the 19x11 corvettes fit the rear with a little beating right?

 

yeah i got that pic from his post on here...

i dont mind them sticking out a lil like the 240 but what offset you think id need with a 10in wide wheel to fit like the 2nd pic? ...i guess i could just ask him what offset... he has haha

 

www.oewheelsllc.com Plenty of wheels to look at here. Good prices too, Dean

 

Have you thought about rubbing in the front wheel wells with rims that stick out like that? I ran 15x8" Torq thrusts on mine for a little while with 3.75" backspacing. The rear was livable, they stuck out about 1/2" too far, but from most angles they looked alright, would have preferred them flush with the body though. The front, however, were a different story. With a 3.75" backspacing (-13mm offset for an 8" rim), the rubbed like crazy at anything past about 1/2 to 3/4 lock. And remember, that's with an 8 inch wide rim. Anything wider in that backspacing would only be much worse. It really got to be unbearable after a while, so I pulled them off and went with 18 inchers in the proper offset. Don't go cheap on the rims and get the wrong offset/backspacing, you'll regret it later.

And just my own personal opinion, anything that sticks out past the top of the fender looks way too red neck on our thirdgens. I've seen a few, very few cars that could pull it off, but most just looked cheap. Set it up right and you'll have something that looks absolutely awesome, drives great, and handles much better than factory. Don't forget, running a rim with significantly less backspacing to move it further out really plays heck with your suspension geometry, and can have a huge negative impact in handling and responsiveness.

Just my $.02, I've been around the block a time or two with these third gen wheel setups, and I'm telling you, do it right the first time or you'll be doing it again later.

-Levi