Wheel Swap

[Spaghetti166]

I did try understanding the Wheel fitment guide and to be honest it was like rocket surgery to me. All I would like to know is can I go to a junkyard and take the stock rims off a Caprice or Monte (15x6 I believe with 4.75" bolt pattern) and without modification to my stock 81 Malibu (14x6 with 4.75" bolt pattern I believe), interchange them?

The end result I'm looking for, there is this really cool old man who has a hub cap junk yard and instead of buying fancy wheels with new tires (going for the classic BF Goodrich Radials 235/60, R15), I was goin g to get the stock 15" from a junkyard and apply the new tires to them and buy some cool hubs.

 

[V8 Rumble]

I would just check the back spacing. Otherwise I don't see much of an issue. I think of I'm not mistaken some b body cars were 5x5.

 

[ssn696]

I picked up two sets of S10 rims. In 1996, they were the steel rims with the identical Malibu 'premium' centers with the five pentagonal cutouts that came on the 14x6 rim. I think they were 15x7. Bolted on with 235/60/15 and looked stock, no issues. In 2007, I found a set of the 16x8 ZQ8 aluminum rims on Craigslist and they bolted on with 255/50/16. Also no issues.

 

[Spaghetti166]

Sweet, thank you both for the good gouge. Looking forward to getting those new tires instead of always chewing up those Walmart brand ones.