10" Wide rims
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From: Ingersoll Ontario
10" Wide rims
My tire and wheel guy wants to slam a set of 10" wide american racing wheel 15" I was wondering if anyone on here has 10" wide wheel and if so does everything clear. I wouldn't mind so pics to.
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Drifting
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From: chicago IL
Worst case scenario you can always get wheel adapters from VBP that would let you fit any wheel up to 11 inches wide (if not wider, havent tried it yet), i have 17 by 11 inch rims with 315 tires out back and 275 out front (going to swap the front ones for 315s as well) and with VBPs 3 inch wheel adapters they fit on perfect, you just might need some fender flares, and thats never a bad thing 
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I ended up making my own, youll see a post soon by me about how to do it yourself, its very easy and painless and will only cost you $60 
All that you need is a product called tigers hair, or bondo hair. Its like bondo, except its reinforced with fiberglass fibers making it 500 times stronger (i can fully sit on the fender flare i made), you get a big piece of metal and make it fit to your wheel arch, then build it up unto the lip of your wheel arch until you get approximantly the right dimensions you need, then just sand it down (the fiberglass makes it real chunky and rough), fill any holes or dimples with a bit of bondo and youve got your set of custom made fender flares that look exactly like what you want them to look like. Getting them even isnt that bad either. Hope this helps you out
PS: Sorry i cant get you a pic, my scanner crapped out, ill get some pics some time next week and send you a pm.
All that you need is a product called tigers hair, or bondo hair. Its like bondo, except its reinforced with fiberglass fibers making it 500 times stronger (i can fully sit on the fender flare i made), you get a big piece of metal and make it fit to your wheel arch, then build it up unto the lip of your wheel arch until you get approximantly the right dimensions you need, then just sand it down (the fiberglass makes it real chunky and rough), fill any holes or dimples with a bit of bondo and youve got your set of custom made fender flares that look exactly like what you want them to look like. Getting them even isnt that bad either. Hope this helps you out PS: Sorry i cant get you a pic, my scanner crapped out, ill get some pics some time next week and send you a pm.
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From: OKC Oklahoma
I wanna see too!!
Originally Posted by killervette666
I ended up making my own, youll see a post soon by me about how to do it yourself, its very easy and painless and will only cost you $60 All that you need is a product called tigers hair, or bondo hair. Its like bondo, except its reinforced with fiberglass fibers making it 500 times stronger (i can fully sit on the fender flare i made), you get a big piece of metal and make it fit to your wheel arch, then build it up unto the lip of your wheel arch until you get approximantly the right dimensions you need, then just sand it down (the fiberglass makes it real chunky and rough), fill any holes or dimples with a bit of bondo and youve got your set of custom made fender flares that look exactly like what you want them to look like. Getting them even isnt that bad either. Hope this helps you out
PS: Sorry i cant get you a pic, my scanner crapped out, ill get some pics some time next week and send you a pm.
All that you need is a product called tigers hair, or bondo hair. Its like bondo, except its reinforced with fiberglass fibers making it 500 times stronger (i can fully sit on the fender flare i made), you get a big piece of metal and make it fit to your wheel arch, then build it up unto the lip of your wheel arch until you get approximantly the right dimensions you need, then just sand it down (the fiberglass makes it real chunky and rough), fill any holes or dimples with a bit of bondo and youve got your set of custom made fender flares that look exactly like what you want them to look like. Getting them even isnt that bad either. Hope this helps you out PS: Sorry i cant get you a pic, my scanner crapped out, ill get some pics some time next week and send you a pm.
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Originally Posted by hirevroller
My tire and wheel guy wants to slam a set of 10" wide american racing wheel 15" I was wondering if anyone on here has 10" wide wheel and if so does everything clear. I wouldn't mind so pics to.
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Originally Posted by hirevroller
My tire and wheel guy wants to slam a set of 10" wide american racing wheel 15" I was wondering if anyone on here has 10" wide wheel and if so does everything clear. I wouldn't mind so pics to.
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Works great!
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From: Republic of Texas
Originally Posted by 7d73tt3v
I have 15x10's on all four corners and have no problems at all. Running 235x60's on them.
Why such a small tire on a 10" rim?
I'm running 275/60/15 on a 8" rim.
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From: Waterloo ontario Canada
Originally Posted by hirevroller
My tire and wheel guy wants to slam a set of 10" wide american racing wheel 15" I was wondering if anyone on here has 10" wide wheel and if so does everything clear. I wouldn't mind so pics to.
Thanks Guys
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Melting Slicks
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From: Orrtanna Pa.
This shot is looking at the edge of a P295 50 15 mounted on 15X9 Weld Draglites. The rim has a 5 1/2 " backset,but I installed a 1 1/4" VB&P wheel adaptor to make up the difference. I could not find a 15" rim that had the 4 1/2" BS that I needed,but in a 9' width. I tried 10's ,but as Norval said,they stick out an inch past the fender lip,which for me was not an option.This combination has been on my 80 for two years and I've never had any clearance problems at all.
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My question to the poster is why does your tire man think that you need 10X15 wheels?
Killervett666 - I can't imagine 315's on the fronts
That would really be putting some severe torque on the front end. If you could please email your flare ideas. The only thing that's stopped me from flares is having to redo my custom existing paint job.
Killervett666 - I can't imagine 315's on the fronts
That would really be putting some severe torque on the front end. If you could please email your flare ideas. The only thing that's stopped me from flares is having to redo my custom existing paint job.
