Vol242vo
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- Joined
- Feb 24, 2005
- Location
- Spokane, WA
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Straight from the motherland!!
Thinking of doing non-traditional placements.
man, that oldsmobile is sooooooo sweet!
I just wanna say, I stared at the hinge for the Taillight for a solid 30 seconds in awe! How'd you pull that off? I mean like, how did you fabricate those bends? That's some legit stuff right there! Helluva build man, helluva!
I figured it had to be something like that! Man, makes me want a CNC Router real bad. How much was yours? I've read multiple DIY projects on CNC stuff, but it's not my cup of tea. It'd be a fun skill to learn, but I might wait until this car is at least rolling before I commit to trying anything with that amount of stepper motoring/programming.
Any chance you can make a set of those LED taillight inserts for me?? I have lots of beer and some money to trade! Ha! I was really trying to think of a way to do LED taillights because I'm planning on doing LED headlights, but I just couldn't swing it myself. I guess having a CNC router opens up a ridiculous number of possibility!
Older brother in the wheel/tire business for 45 years -- so I know a guy....
My resident wheel/tire fitment expert says he wouldn't expect significant movement out at the tread with a move from 7.5" to 8.5" and a 215 section tire PROVIDED you are certain about splitting the additional inch 50/50....
to me you'd want the whole inch inboard.
I use something similar in an app, but it doesn't really pinpoint tire section width vs. rim width. This is a little better, but I don't see how the backspace can stay the same and the wheel still move .2" inboard
You're subtracting 6mm of offset while adding 6mm of width on each side of the centerline. So your backspacing is the same and inboard edge stays in the same place. Wheel rim to body clearance on the outside edge will therefore be reduced as the outboard edge is pushed outwards by 12mm. By doing it this way you're adding all of your width to the outboard edge.
If you want to split the difference and move the inboard & outboard edges by the same amount, you'd want your new 8" wheel to have ET30 offset just like your old wheel. Distance from centerline to hub mounting face stays the same, and the wheel grows equally in either direction.