Just wondering what wheel/tyre combos everyone is running with their turbo flares ? I just ordered some flares from IE and started looking for wheels, but I dont know what will or wont fit ! The car is hopefully going to have a turbo M42 so I would prefer to run a meaty tire under the rear.
I have 15x8 et0 with 225-45-15 Hankook R-S3, and get a slight rub at full compression in the rear. et~10 would solve that issue, I have plenty of room to move things inboard. The front hits the footwell at full lock.
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^so at full lock, the outer edge of your tire is hitting?
i'm trying to help my dad out with the same thing, possibly a square setup 16x9.5 et38....that seems awfully wide though even for the widebody flares lol
I would run the Rota RB's. They are 13x8 et4. they would look the part.
About how much room do you have inboard ? Enough room to fit a 9 inch wheel with the right offset ?
Anyone remember that black turbo with the style 5 or bbs rs wheels ? They looked like 17's, what wheels specs did he have ?
I remember that one, but if we're talking about the same one it had a 5 lug swap and so much custom work I wouldn't use it as a basis for comparison...
I think there is enough room to run a 9" wheel with the same 225 tire, but honestly I don't think you'll have that much more support for the sidewall. It's already a little stretched on the 8" wheel.
I was thinking 245's
The trick will be finding a 245 that isn't 25" tall...
Diamonds are very cheap, especially used (check vwvortex) but steel and heavy.
Mine are (I think) Spinwerks. I know they're aluminum, and they're the only ones I could find that made a 9 d-window wheel in aluminum. I bought them second-hand so I can't say for sure what they are. They came to me polished.
I once bought a car w/ 225/50 15 on 8 rears....et 12 but a spacer was used...like 20 mm......anything bigger will look cartoonish on the car IMO.....
we ran 15/7 up frt on 205/50....
I prefer the old school 13s...here is an 8 w/ neg 12 offset!
Last edited by jrkoupe; 12-03-2010 at 03:00 PM.
Bringing this thread back...
I am thinking about running the following on my 2002 with turbo flairs:
FRONT: 15x8 et0, 220/45/15
REAR: 15x8.5 et-5, 230/45/15
ANY OBJECTIONS!?!?
We'll be running 15x8.5 15x9.0 on our upcoming flared 02 build. We've used the combo before and it works well. 225/45-15 tires. I'll have to double check to see what offsets are.
Actually, after having run that setup a few times, I'd like to try 9.0 up front and 10" rear
Hey @2000mkoop, what offset were you running on those 15x8.5 and 15x9.0? I'm guessing front would have to be at least -7 to get 4.5" of backspace, right? -14 in the rear?
I want to run this setup right now. Looking at getting tii struts + e12 hubs + 15mm spacers (5x120 to 5x114.3 adapters).
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