So, it seems like there are no affordable or used 17" wheels with negative offsets other than very heavy looking truck wheels.
To use positive offset wheels, I need some big spacers. How big a spacer is to big ?
The roads are not the best here in NH, maybe slightly better than the roads in MA.
I have 3 inch on my C3 and 2.75 inch on my 92 Safari van to fit Vette Sawblades. No issues
Biggest i've used was 3" with no issues. Other than lug nuts galling onto studs and snapping them off and finding that whatever chinesium studs they use are pretty near impossible to match up and if you find something close enough it's so expensive you might as well buy more spacers. So in this case i do actually recommend some kind of lube on threads. I'd rather retorque than buy more.
I ran 3” spacers on the back of a 10,000 lb SRW class B RV. They were fine.
If you're talking adapter type spacers that bolt to the hub and then the wheels bolt to the spacer, pretty much any size you can think of should work fine provided you're not pushing the wheels out so far that you get insane positive scrub radius or other geometry quirks.
It can do weird things with your wheel bearings though. Anyway, that’s what I blamed for all the wheel bearings I had to do on my Mazda
In reply to rslifkin :
Yep, adapter type. Need to go from 4x130 to what ever the wheels I get are.
Currently have 22mm adapters, they will be replaced with the new ones. I already have scrub radious issues. If I get the combo of spacers and back space right, I should not make it any worse, putting the wheels in the same location, that's the hope.
I ran 3” spacers on the back of a 10,000 lb SRW class B RV
Damn! That's kind of awesome.
I run 1" bolt ons on the rear of my SN95. My buddy has I think 3" bolt ons on the front of his '92 Camaro to run C6 Corvette wheels. (Rear is a 4th gen axle so no spacers back there)
rslifkin said:If you're talking adapter type spacers that bolt to the hub and then the wheels bolt to the spacer, pretty much any size you can think of should work fine provided you're not pushing the wheels out so far that you get insane positive scrub radius or other geometry quirks.
ANY SIZE I WANT!?!??!?!??!!?
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