Wheel question
Race Director
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From: SCMR Rat Pack'r Charter Member..Great Bend KS
Yes and no.
They will bolt up, and you can drive on 'em....but the offset (backspacing) is not the same and they will be a bit further inboard.
(This is the wisdom of the forum, not my own.
)
Larry
code5coupe
They will bolt up, and you can drive on 'em....but the offset (backspacing) is not the same and they will be a bit further inboard.
(This is the wisdom of the forum, not my own.
)Larry
code5coupe
Melting Slicks
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From: Bowling Green KY
I think he's right!!!
They will bolt up, and you can drive on 'em....but the offset (backspacing) is not the same and they will be a bit further inboard.
or you could go with aftermarket!!
Racer
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From: Ottawa Ontario
From the reading I've done I would stay away from spacers and adapters. The offset on the early C4's is 38mm. The latter are 55m. It's getting harder and harder these days to find newer wheels with the 38mm offset.
Team Owner
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
Adapters bolt to the hub and are as strong as the wheel.
Racer
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From: Ottawa Ontario
I am just saying I personally would stay away from them.
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From: Atlantis
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I'm running the adapters on my '84... with 2002 SS Camaro 5 Spoke wheels.
For you flame throwers... NO I HAVEN'T been able to tear them off and if ANYONE could it would be ME!!!!!!
My adapters aren't anything special, just some I bought here on the forum. Plain vanilla, fairly cheap adapters that have been throughly tested by me in both lateral directions.
They've held up just fine and I've done most everything to break them except sliding up against a curb.
I might not trust them to road race with'em myself but for driving around out here in the 'civilian' world, they're 'just fine'.
My Crossfire hasn't got enough power to test them properly in the 'radial' mode. Not that I haven't tried.
For you flame throwers... NO I HAVEN'T been able to tear them off and if ANYONE could it would be ME!!!!!!
My adapters aren't anything special, just some I bought here on the forum. Plain vanilla, fairly cheap adapters that have been throughly tested by me in both lateral directions.
They've held up just fine and I've done most everything to break them except sliding up against a curb.
I might not trust them to road race with'em myself but for driving around out here in the 'civilian' world, they're 'just fine'.
My Crossfire hasn't got enough power to test them properly in the 'radial' mode. Not that I haven't tried.
Team Owner
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
I'm sure mechanics see all sorts of amusing things though. For example, I saw this kid trying to buy new studs for his adapter because they were all bent inward and two were broken. Looked like he was using a Chevy bolt pattern on a Ford wheel and they all bent in when tightening it. The idiot would have had to use a hammer to even get the wheel partway on.
I told the idiot to throw the adapter in the garbage and get the right one for his application before his wheel falls off.