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different widths front and rear

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dirtbag240

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so theres a fella near me selling some older looking lotus rims
front is a 15x7
rear is a 16x8.5

i was thinking of going 225/55r15 on the front
and then either a 245/45r16 or a 245/50r16 on the rear


anything that instantly screams "no dont do it "?

oh also front offset is et28 rear is et 30
will probably run a thin spacer in the future

cheers
 
dirtbag240 said:
so theres a fella near me selling some older looking lotus rims
front is a 15x7
rear is a 16x8.5

i was thinking of going 225/55r15 on the front
and then either a 245/45r16 or a 245/50r16 on the rear


anything that instantly screams "no dont do it "?

oh also front offset is et28 rear is et 30
will probably run a thin spacer in the future

cheers
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Other than rolling the sh!t out of your rear arches no.
 
dirtbag240 said:
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Red wood I though you were talking death because I'll need to somehow make a 60 centre bore fit my 240's 65.1? Centre bore, not caus I'll need to murder the rear wheel wells
 
Next question is how sketchy would it be to bore 5.1mm so the rims fit on a 245

Also no one knows of a wheel spacer that would drop the bore down instead of up eh?
 
dirtbag240 said:
Red wood I though you were talking death because I'll need to somehow make a 60 centre bore fit my 240's 65.1? Centre bore, not caus I'll need to murder the rear wheel wells
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:nod:

One tool does it all...

:grin:

dirtbag240 said:
Next question is how sketchy would it be to bore 5.1mm so the rims fit on a 245

Also no one knows of a wheel spacer that would drop the bore down instead of up eh?
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Spacers make bore irrelevant if they're not hub centric.
 
dirtbag240 said:
But are lugcentric spacers not frowned upon generally
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By the TB snobs, but in the real world they work if you can properly mount a wheel.

IE:

Set, Snug, Torque just like your daddy showed you when he taught you to drive and put on the spare wheel ...

:e-shrug:

140's and most older cars aren't hub centric and they seem to have gone down the road for ~100 years...
 
I used to help with a racing Bugeye Sprite and we used spacers and straight lugnuts with washers on Shelby Viper wheels. Nothing hubcentric. You had to make sure the lugnut went through the wheel and the spacer. Then torque.
 
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