I want to run some wheels with a lot of dish on my maverick how much backspacing is needed or too much? I found these wheels on the net http://www.mustangtuning.com/17x105dd-bullitt-wheel-white.html will they fit with spacers. And yes i am thinking of flaring the fenders to fit them. Any help would be great thanx.
Whew the would have to be a big spacer. I think most people with a wider rear wheel are running a 4 1/2" backspacing and those wheels have almost 7"! It might require more than just flaring. Maybe a 17x9 would be better might be able to make them fit.
The wheels are made for a high positive offset car. You would have to put a 2 1/2 inch spacer on the hub just to get them to clear the leaf springs. That would make them highly hazardus to run on a Mav. Good looking wheel though.
You could swap to a wider width rear end, then depending on the width you might not have to run spacers at all. But thats quite a bit of work!
as cool as those would look on a mav/comet (and i really hope you figure out how to do it) it would be a ton of work, the rears wouldnt be too bad, wider rear end and small spacers would do it. the fronts on the other hand would be a handful. good luck!
I was planing on runing the 10.5's in the back and then getting these 9's in the front http://www.mustangtuning.com/17x9-bullitt-wheel-white.html. I do have a wider 9 inch rear end i am gonna put in the car. thank you for the input more advise would be help too
Look at my gallery. I have the same wheel but it's an 18x10 deep dish. As you can tell I have enough room for 17x10.5 but I wanted the taller wheel. I did not need spacers once I got the clearence that I needed but it took some help from a guy here that build race cars. I will have to tell you what all is needed. I have 17x8 up front. I could not get a 9 because I didn't want to use spacers. I drive hard in corners & I like the brake traction when turning corners so spacers is a no no for me.
Bolt in a 71-73 Mustang rear... That would probably get the back done without spacers. You could do either 8" or 9" out of those Stangs. Some quick calculations tell me that rear in a Mav should require roughly 6.5" to 7" BS rim.
The back spacing on those wheels are close to 7 inches. If you change the rear end to a wider one then you may have to roll the fender. I stayed with the stock 8 inch. It was mini tubed & the leaf springs were moved over a little. It does not sound like alot but it's the small things that made a difference. New mounts had to be made to get the leaf over. New shock mounts for the shocks. The shocks are not in the same place plus he gave the new shocks a different pitch to help. The outter seatbelt brackets had to be moved. The gas tank was tossed for a fuel cell in the trunk, but you could use a mustang gas tank because they are centered under the car. New fuel line was ran. He did something to the braket behind the backseat but I don't know what. With this done there were no fender mods needed & I think I have enough room to run an 11 or 12 with a rolled fender. I hope this helps you. Believe me it gets much attention when park in stores parking lot. You will love it.
This is how I was looking at it: 4.25" B/S gets an 8" rim under the car easy with stock rear. Add a rear that is 5" wider, yet everything else is a direct bolt in... That gives you another 2.5" B/S available to get the rim back where it would have been. So you have 6.75 worth of B/S covered right there. Having a large diameter rim like that should buy you the other fraction of an inch because the springs are the closest obstacle and the larger rim would get you futher out on the spring, away from protrusions. Folks are putting 11" section width tires on 15x8 rims and 4.25-4.5 B/S, and you have to figure the short sidewalls of a large dia tire will not be much wider than the rim, I wouldn't figure the combination to stick out too much. He might roll the fenders purely from a safety standpoint though... Don't want to scar up expensive tires! Dave
Dave you might be on to something. I have an 8 inch on the front with 4.5 inches of backspacing with no problems. They fit the back too. The deep dish outer rim sit almost in the same spot as the 8 inch, it's just the inner rim that goes so far under the car. So a wider rearend would pull the rim out some. Also figure that a 10 inch wide rim is just about 11 inches wide bead to bead. My tire is 12 inches wide.
I was planning on doing what Dave was talking about, but with a newer Mustang rear end. I've been thinking about the FR500 Deep dish for some time now. I had a paper with all the figures but of course since moving to the new house I cant find it. I wanted a newer Mustang rear end since it already has disc brakes, and I believe it was about the right width to use a 7" BS rim (18x10). You would have to cut the perches off your old rear end and reweld it to the newer rear but thats nothing huge. BTW Anybody got the measurement's for a 94 up Mustang GT rear end handy?
It would need to be about 61.5" wide to be the same as the 71-73 Stang rear. You could always get this Stang rear for the 'bolt in' factor, then put a set of Exploder discs on it. Just an idea so that you wouldn't need to fab so much for the late model rear. Also, I don't know for positive, but I think there is a pretty severe offset on the late rear. Someone else would need to say for sure though... Dave
