Wheel Poll On My Mission to Turn and Stop

[Canon_Mutant]

Do those 9s of yours actually have a 5.5" BS? Or is there some subtracted offset? Or, do you by chance have a spacer?

Asking just cuz I have 1.7 to the frame with a bare 4.0BS SSIII on mine. 5.5BS should set any wheel 2/10 from the frame [on my car anyway] and then you have to add the tire bulge.

Or, am I smoking weed on my calculations again [??] . . . it's happened before.

I was only going to get 5.4BS on my 9.5s I want to put back there so with the 265 tire bulge I should still have 2/10 to the frame.

Just like my 15x7 SSIIIs that are actually 8" outside lip to lip, these 9.5" Sabers are actually 10.5 wide outside lip to lip so . . . a 10.7 tire will just have a .1 overhang.

.2 + .1 + 5.4 + 5.1 + .1 + .2 = 11.1"
Frame Gap + Tire + BS + [wheel width - BS] + Tire + Fender Gap = Total

 

[xitabl442]

Do those 9s of yours actually have a 5.5" BS? Or is there some subtracted offset? Or, do you by chance have a spacer?

Asking just cuz I have 1.7 to the frame with a bare 4.0BS SSIII on mine. 5.5BS should set any wheel 2/10 from the frame [on my car anyway] and then you have to add the tire bulge.

Or, am I smoking weed on my calculations again [??] . . . it's happened before.

I was only going to get 5.4BS on my 9.5s I want to put back there so with the 265 tire bulge I should still have 2/10 to the frame.

Just like my 15x7 SSIIIs that are actually 8" outside lip to lip, these 9.5" Sabers are actually 10.5 wide outside lip to lip so . . . a 10.7 tire will just have a .1 overhang.

.2 + .1 + 5.4 + 5.1 + .1 + .2 = 11.1"
Frame Gap + Tire + BS + [wheel width - BS] + Tire + Fender Gap = Total

I have a 1" bolt-on spacer in the rear.

 

[Canon_Mutant]

Good, thank you. My formula still works.

I'll leave the weed smoking to everyone's imagination . . .

EDIT: And I still think those Coys would be a close 2nd to these outrageous Sabers I am getting. I like them a lot!

 

[Canon_Mutant]

Definition of anal?

I actually have a spreadsheet I made with different wheel sizes/diameters/widths/backspacing with select tire sizes to check clearances to the frame and to the well on everything . . . so I hopefully don't order the wrong size

I still hope to get them actually ordered yet this month. Just waiting on a refund check to pay for them now. IRS is a bit behind this year.

I do want to stay with a traditional stepped lip which mandates a 9.5" rear instead of just 9". Since [as you all probably know] the wheels are actually an inch wider than the spec'd size, 10.5" is a bunch of wheel for these 11.1" fender wells. Soft lip would probably be fine but I think I mentioned before that I'd like to put a strip of 442 gold tape around the lip and have a friend that thinks he can fab some center caps that will accept the factory 442 centers so they should look just like 17" and 18" inch SSIIIs when I am done.

 

[Canon_Mutant]

Is it yet this month yet? Since I ran out of fall, I didn't see any sense in ordering my Sabers until . . . NOW!

Order is going to MHT via AZProPerformance tomorrow!

[2] 17x8.00 w/4.50 BS = $715 per
[2] 18x9.25 w/5.25 BS = $812 per

Yeah, you practically need a home improvement loan to pay for them but this should look pretty awesome and I already have a guy lined up to get me some center cap adapters that will accept the factory 442 centers onto these wheels.

Then just need to get a set of these bad boys plus a set of 245/45/17 and 275/40/18 of these tires on them. These get me the most actual tread on the pavement compared to others of the same size. I know they are complete crap in temps below 50 and won't last long but this car won't see more than 2-3000 miles per year as long as I am around and is a fair weather car only.

Also, once my ribs get better [I fell and broke 2 ribs . . . I am my own worst enemy ], I should be back under the car but will update my build thread for that.

 

[Texas82GP]

Looks great. Sorry to hear about the fall. Hope you are feeling better soon.

 

[Canon_Mutant]

And then I lied . . . MLK day, bank closed. Fortunately, the wife had the day off so I didn't find this out AFTER driving all the way to town. But it IS happening tomorrow . . . um, what else could possibly happen?
Crash and burn going to the bank?

 

[UNGN]

I painted the car after the lip was rolled, but the paint was broken from rolling the lip.

When you a roll fender, you have to heat up the paint with a $9 Harbor Freight Heat gun and it won't crack.

I can't decide f my $9 heat gun or my $8 4" cut off wheel are the best tools I have ever bought for less than $10.

 

[Rktpwrd]

. . . um, what else could possibly happen?
Crash and burn going to the bank?

Never ever ask "what's the worst that could happen" .... lest you actually find out! Murphy and his "Law" can be a real b*tch!
Lol
Looking forward to seeing you finally get the wheels you've been lusting after!
🙂

 

[Canon_Mutant]

Oh, hey, I think I may well have personally written Murphy's law in my sleep many years ago . . . Though I am a very fortunate man in many ways, it is only because I put myself in situations where I was guaranteed to win. When it comes to luck? Not so much . . . I once lost 9 out of 10 coin tosses. True story.

And, I don't gamble because clear back in high school, we were playing what we called "High Chicago" though I am not sure we really knew what we were doing? A game where you draw one card and simply pass or play on high card then continue drawing cards playing high hand up until you get to 5 cards, then it's just straight poker. First card, I drew the Ace of Hearts. So, 4 cards have been dealt, only one card in the deck can beat me, you play under those stakes. I played. Guy across from me had the Ace of Spades. I got to double the pot.

Anyway, I was moving some stuff late last night, wasn't even that heavy, just boxes of crap the wife asked me to move, and I found out that the ribs are NOT healed yet. Of course, it will only be 2 weeks this coming Friday when I broke them. Re-hurt myself badly enough, I didn't feel good enough to even drive to town today.
So, I will just update this silly thread when I actually manage to get the wheels ordered . . .