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Old 09-27-2018, 10:13 PM
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You nailed the period correct but modern look. Your car looks great, bet you get constant compliments!
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That looks awesome! I've got some E39 M-Parallels 18x9.5 in the rear, and I've been looking into widening the inside to accommodate a 305 or 315.
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Re: Widening aluminum wheels?

I am curious if you could do it all over again. Would you still have the rim made to 11 inches and use the 12mm spacer or just have them widened to 10.5 and not need the spacer. This is of course using the same tire.

I am asking because I have these same rims and plan to buy a new S60 rear this winter. Widening and running the same rubber is on my list.

Any chance we can get them bump stop and inner wheel well pics?
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Re: Widening aluminum wheels?

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I am curious if you could do it all over again. Would you still have the rim made to 11 inches and use the 12mm spacer or just have them widened to 10.5 and not need the spacer. This is of course using the same tire.

I am asking because I have these same rims and plan to buy a new S60 rear this winter. Widening and running the same rubber is on my list.

Any chance we can get them bump stop and inner wheel well pics?
so yes if I was to do it all over again I would still go 11", and I would still use the spacer. 10" with no spacer would clear everything and still work, but it wouldn't get the front side of the wheel sitting in the fender where I wanted it. Regardless of how wide they were widened to, I personally would still use the spacer.

I will get some more pics soon. I really am impressed with the Mickey thompson sport comp tire for the money too. I would definitely do them again.

Be careful with strange and the S60.. I have one in my 2000 SS and I refer to it as the POS60. I bought it new from stange and got totally screwed. It made noise, and ate up a set of gears within the first 400 miles with a 460rwhp stalled auto setup with zero abuse. Then after I put 3 other sets of gears in it, all of which made noise at various speeds, all installed by a Dana spicer certified installer, then we finally get a set of gears in it that I could live with, just to put 1000 miles on it to have it wear out the inside of one drag radial and find out that they welded the litter bearing housing on it crooked. Strange told me basically to pound sand on it all after I spent $3200 on it brand new. Not to rant about it but I would never recommend anything from those dirtbags at strange
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Re: Widening aluminum wheels?

Originally Posted by charlie6178
I have a 17x11 6.75" BS wheel on the car now with a 315 nitto drag radial on it and it clears the bump stops. I put ARP stud in it and bought some H&R hubcentric .300" spacers so I am positive it will clear.
Awesome wheels, man.

What did the backspace end up being on the wheels you had widened?
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Re: Widening aluminum wheels?

I believe the backspace was 7" before adding the spacers
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