THIS IS NOT FOR STREET USE!
Depending on the offset of the wheel you can run them
on the front of your car with a spacer. I ran some
steel 13x5.5 with 1.5" offset on the fronts with one
1/4" spacer. This does put more of a load on your
front wheel bearings and lower ball joints. Now I run
13x7 with 1" offset and 20" tall slicks on the front.
After some testing this spring, I am going to change
to 13x10 with 2" offset on the fronts and going to go
with 13x15 for the rears. Of course this is on a
dedicated race car with flares and such but it can be
done.
Other things I have done to make running 13" on the
front easier. Milled down the rotor 5/16" and slotted
the calipers to move them in 1/4" inch. this allows
for clearence. You can run steel wheels but not
aluminum. I run Diamond Racing Wheels. Not the
lightest but at 14 lbs not the heaviest either. Also
not too spendy. Found the 13x10 for $34 ea and the
13x7 for 32 ea on the clearence page.
Also jsut converted the rear to disc and I ampretty
excited about that!!
Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Don Miller
68 Turbo V-6 (now weighs 1850 lbs and hoping to lose
more)
Meridian, ID
--- HIGHKIX4@aol.com wrote:
> For all:
> I want to know if the 510 wheels will fit on a
> roadster and
> vice-versa. Reason is....I autocrossed the 510
> station wagon
> with the shelby viper 5.5 X 13 wheels and 195 X 13
> tires
> (Sumitomo tires, cheap but sticky)
> and had a lot of fun, but was slow due to pathetic
> power from the 170.000 mile original engine....
> yea, couldnt be my fault, driver error NOT!
> .....but in Feb during the next
> event, I want to run the roadster if its not too
> cold,
> so want to know if the offset, etc, is OK.
> The roadster has 185X60 Firestone Affinity
> touring tires, and they are definatly not the
> hot set up. I realize the roadster is 14 inch,
> but I just want to do this for the day, and stick
> a little better and maybe beat someone.....
> TIA
> Jim
> Chesapeake Va
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