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Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:36 pm

Currently have porsche 2.0liter rims on my 66 ghia. The fronts have

the 135 and the rears have 165 tires. My front end is lowered with 2-1/2

ball joints, stock width. I have very minor rubbing issues. On the rears

I have t-3 brakes which are wider than the stock drum brakes. I can't

get my pinky finger in between the fender and the tire. I believe the

backset on the 2.0 liter rims is 40mm.

Can anyone tell me if the 1/2" wider boxster rims(if I use 6" on all 4

corners) would work :?: Would love to use the 6" on the front and the

7" on the rear, but I'm pretty sure that won't work. Also what

size tire would I need to use ?

16" boxster rims

6 x 16 with 50mm offset
7 x 16 with 40mm offset

According to this web sit,

http://marksink.com/tire_wheel_offset/offset.html

the 6" boxster rim would sit closer to the center

of the car by 4mm less than the 2.0liter rims. So if I'm figuring this

right I should have enough room to run 16" x 6" boxster rims on all

4 corners?

If that will work how do I figure what size tires will work :?: The whole

purpose that I'm wanting to do this, is to run a wider tire on the front

and the rear.

Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:48 pm

I can't help but here's someone you might want to contact...

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=460996

Shane

Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:48 pm

Thanks for the info. I will pm him and see if I can get any info from him

Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:39 pm

My car is irs so I dont know. What I do know is a british guy on germanlook.com has 6" all around on a lowlight ghia so it will work
with 205-55-16 or 205-50-16

My car has 7" rears with 205-50-16 and fits fine. All I did was countersink the sprind plate bolt that comes close to the tire
with a countersunk allen bolt and trimmed the snubber a little.

I have 6" front with 195-50-16 and removed my dropped spindles to avoid rubbing with stock width beam. I have beam adjusters to dial it
down a little. Disk brake dust cover with speedo hole was the only problem. In the end I just made a new hole in the porsche cap and left the vw cap off. I greased the porsche cap so dust will stay out. Works fine and is hardly noticeable.

My fronts rubbed on the sway bar clamps so I removed the sway bar and cant notice a difference. If I were keeping the car
and did notice a difference a white line sway bar should fit fine.

Again my car is Irs so I cannot say for sure. With swing axel short axels should work.

Regards, Kevin

Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:15 am

Just found the best wheel/tire comparision calculator on the net,

check it out. You can change everything from et to tire sizes to compare

to your existing rim/tire.

http://www.wheelsmaster.com/rt_specs.jsp