Wheels and tires pix. Huge props to this site, for helping....

sweet camaro, the one I'm doing is tubbed & sits on 18" wide 20's in the rear... would you believe a 10" lip? custom mickey tompson wheels & tires... wish I coulda got some steam rollers like that for the fx :tongue: I love the fats & skinnies look & to a certain extent I think it works on the fx too


I haven't gotten around to putting up a thread about my wheel fitment yet, but yeah, I do remember how frustraited you were, I want to put up a thread that should help others out who want to go for pushing the limits of fitment, should be a help & yeah, like you, I learned alot about what might & might not fit by researching here what others have done.

I don't have too many pictures up yet of how they fit, so heres 2 shots showing how they sit. I'm planning on going lower so I kept the wheels in as much as practical till it's really lowered as much as I want, then, if I need to space them out slightly to get them right up to the edge of the quarters I can do that. I tried to position these in a way that would allow me to go full drop to the ground & have the wheels tuck into the wheelwell instead of hitting the wheel well edges & they pretty much do, might have to roll the lip as it get's slammed some more, but as of now the 11" wide with 315's fit perfect

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Man....*drools* did I say NICE looking rides?? Hey I'll trade you my girl for it lol I'll bet the Camaro take less maintance than her lol. Jk

I hope my girl never read this post lol
 
Turbocad... your ride is sweeeeeeeeet!!! black is tough to beat, when it's all cleaned up. That is tight lookin whip. I really wish I had gone with 11's and 315's. Oh well, I still enjoy mine, of course, but I really notice stuff like that, and to me, it makes a world of difference, in the look. So you went staggered you say? What are you rollin' in the front??

carmaro sounds like it has some serious bite. What's powering that beast? Is it blown? You'll have to send me some pix of hte finished product. You said you're doing custom paint on it. It's not for sale is it?? I could be in the market, IF, as bob barker would say (yeah that is a horrible reference) 'the price is right'.

Do you have any more pix of ur FX? This is my first time to do something like this. One other time I threw wheels on a bimmer I had, but I didn't do any research at all. I just played lost puppy, to some local shop, and let them fit it up. Next time I do this, I'm going maximum width and I'll lower it. I don't think I wanna put any more into this one, right now. I'd rather just quit, and look for another toy. Anyone know of an R1 in mint condition for sale. ha. My wife looks at an R1, for me, pretty much the same way she'd look at me getting a hooker to stay at our house some night. I'm not allowed sport bikes anymore. But if the right one were thrown in my face,........... what could do.


Rubare..... you said it right there. My camaro is less maintence than your girl, (as are most woman) therefor it's a NO TRADE! lol
 
thanks bro, fronts are 9.5" rim, 265 tires... staggered enough to be pretty noticable. I've got some other pictures but don't want to flood your thread with my pictures... when I get some more up I'll link you to them, & when I get the camaro out of the booth I'll put up a shot here if it's alright with you. meantime, if you want to see some more shots of my fx you can check out my thread here: ///986

it's a big thread but towards the last pages are a few pictures of the wheels too...

heres a teaser shot of the 18" wide 20's from the camaro:smile:

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HOLLY $%@#! You've done some serious mod's. I'm impressed!!!

Post whateva you want bro. I'm not worried about my thread. I don't care about that stuff.

Where's the inside of your vehicle? I didn't go through every page on that thread of yours you posted. I saw the dash taken apart, but not the finished product. You have some sick work and labor, in your ride. It looks like it all payed of in the end. Impressive FX!!
 
I don't have any good pictures of the redo of my dash yet, just finished getting it back togeather saturday night, but heres a night shot...

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it came out ok the first time & I used it like that for over a year, but I wasn't crazy about the way the longer vents looked & it wasn't very crisp with the vents being kinda rounded, had a few blemishes too & it got to the point that I was not happy with how it looked so I redid it...
 
oh yeah, just want to add that I see your concerned about lowering your fx. I'm in NYC & the roads & potholes here are about as bad as can be, if you've ever driven on the BQE you'd know what I mean... brooklyn, bronx, queens, manhattan, roads here are pretty bad... when you leave the city the roads feel like silk... even so, trust me when I tell you that you will NEVER regret lowering the fx with H&R's... don't think of this like lowering a normal car & all that is normally associated with a lowered car.

the FX sits very high from the factory, lowering it on H&R's is not like lowering a car at all, everyone swares that the fx actually rides BETTER on the H&R's than stock... it's not lowering, it's just un-jacking it up:tongue: there is no chance of bottoming the wheel in the wheelwell & ground clearance is still much higher than most other cars... unless your rock crawling you will never regret lowering... the way the FX sit's on H&R's is the way it should have come from the factory.... it's not at all like a lowered car... the 22's are more of an issue & concern than the lowering...
 
My buddy had a 69 (most popular year from what I hear as that was the year it was pace car) that was tubbed and full cage. Crazy car.
 
hey john, just wondering but how deep are those lips on your wheels?
Front & back.
I heard you mention you had 11" in the back and that fit with no issues.
I was wondering what offset you had on those 11"s.
I have been looking at some wheels that are 22x10.5 with a 38 offset for rear
and 22x9 with 35 offset for front. I plan on lowering with H&R someday as well and would rather the tires tuck in than go flush with the wheel well.
 
the rears are a +48 offset. you had to see me obsessing over every mm in trying to figure out what would & wouldn't work & what would fit exactly like I wanted them to fit... I think I originally requested +47.5 but IForged laughed, they wanted whole numbers to the nearest mm & even then they swore that they would not fit & didn't want any responsability if they didn't, had to sign a waiver accepting responsability for fitment... waiting 3 months for the wheels just to see if they really did fit the way I thought they would was killer... it was a gamble that paid off well though I think...

staggered with AWD you gotta be careful, the tires are critical more so than the wheels & you must match the outer diameter front to rear pretty acurately or you can damage the awd system, also the computer will sense the difference in rotation & kick up lights on the dash like a christmas tree... gotta look at the rotations per mile & keep front & rear about the same... the difference in my front to rear is only 4 rotations per mile... I'd suggest you don't go off by much more than that or you'll wind up kicking a slip light on much easier on higher speed turns & stuff... also realize that even different width rims can affect tthe rotations per mile... gotta look not only at the specs but the rim size that was used to obtain those specs... a wider rim can increase the rotations per mile slightly & a narrower rim can decrease it slightly, up to maybe 1 rotation per mile even from one extreme to the other I think...
 
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So do you think 22x10.5 with a 38 offset for rear
and 22x9 with 35 offset for front would throw off some lights "like a christmas tree"?
Love the way you worded that by the way:tup: hehe

Looks like what I was planning is half inch norrower than what you went with. I know the front will fit but was wondering about the rear 22x10.5 with the 38 offset. I love the look of the deeper lip in the rear. This setup won't be too much different as far as the lip goes, I'm guessing maybe about 1.250 deeper lip in rear. Small detail that may go un-noticed.
 
your 1/2" narrower than me, ~13mm, half of this is deducted from inside & half from outside, so that means around 6mm in more for the outer lip, but then your wheel is sitting centered 10mm out more than mine, meaning an end result of a total of sticking out like 4mm more than mine, really they'll be fine, tire buldge will determine if you need to trim or not if you lower but even with a 305 rear I think you'll be ok, I guess I'd look at ~ the 295 range on a 10.5 rim.... maybe a 265 front...

the tires are what's going to determine weather your dash does the chrismas tree thing or not, not the rims.. the same rims have the potential to work fine or be a mess, it depends on the tires alone... you need to reserch tires that will be matched & appropriate for those rim widths...

also, the difference between my front & rear lip is only 1"... I didn't want big lips...
 
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i like to read these, please continue....:cool::smile::laugh:
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LOL, I didn't know you were reading... I feel so violated!

I don't mind trimming at all, I think I would do it even if it wasn't rubbing but came close just in case.
I'm not sure I follow about the tires though.
I know if the outer diameter is not the same one will have more revolutions than the other.
If the outer diameters are the same and only the width is different I assumed I would be ok.
I'm second guessing now 'cause I think i'm missing something here that you know & i don't.
Do same diameter tires spin slighly different revs. with different widths?
If so would I need to go with as narrow tire that will fit stretched on the rear & then how ever wide tire fits in front?

I don't mind either look really but would prefer a wider tire for at least a little rim protection.
 
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no man, your pretty much right, all that matters in the overall diameters & that they are very close to the same... weather a tire is stretched or buldged can make a very slight difference too in revs per mile, but very hard to calculate for & usually minimal difference really, different tires can handle this differently too, overall I'd be more concerned with just overall diameter, as the rim will have a very minimal effect...

for my tires I winded up using the "as measured with" rim widths listed in the manufactures specs just cause they happened to wind up working out pefect for my application anyway, & to insure that the devation from narrower or wider rims wouldn't be a factor, but not much would have changed if I went 1/2" narrower front & rear rims too... actually now that I think about it, the tires I choose for my car would also work perfect on the rims your talking about I was considering 10.5 & 9 but settled on 11& 9.5... these tires could work perfect & you'll have a little more buldge than I do, which isn't bad really, I kinda wish I had a bit more buldge (oh man, just threw up a softball for ash on that one:cool:)

only problem is these tires are very $$$, that & there summer only, I plan on running different wheels in the winter, which will help these $$$ tires last longer too I guess...

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oh & about trimming, I plan on rolling my edges when I drop her some more. I bought a tool that eastwood sells that rolls the lips very cleanly & gonna try it on the fx... someone does rent this tool too for ~$60 or so, so if that works out for me as a solution then that might be a better way to go...
 
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