What Rims Do You Have On Your Ghia?

[cafemiguel]

I don't know what PEDRINI'S are but my 1974 Ghia has original 914 Porsche 4 lugs and they fit perfect, no problems with the original disk brakes or calipers.

[SandHamwich]

I’m looking to get a set of Gurney/mcafee wheels for my 68 with long axle rear. I saw another person posted a pic in this thread noting they had to cut the wheel arches to fit. Does anyone know the offset of these wheels in 15x5.5?

Thanks

[3foldfolly]

Old school original Rivieras.

[Ian Godfrey]

I've got Porsche 'home made' Club Sports. I got man hole cover style wheels and did the club sport cutouts on the CNC. The wheels are forged by Fuch so very light.
fronts are 16 x 6 ET52
rears are 16 x 7 ET 65 widened to to 8"

[cafemiguel]

Very nice work; I'v often wondered what would I venture to attack IF ONLY I HAD THE $$$$ FOR A CNC MACHINE.

[evan94]

Fuchs Replicas from CIP. Fronts are 165/60/15 - 4.5"x15" with 4.125" backspace, rears are 185/65/r15 - 5.5"x15" with 5" backspace.
At the moment the car is lowered with drop spindles (stock beam width). I have no clearance problems in the rear, would probably go with a 7" wide or run spacers as they're pretty inset in the rear fender. Fronts have clearance issues on hard turns or with a passenger, the ball joints rub on the wheels and have kind of made a slight groove all the way around. I currently have 1/4" spacers which helped but didn't eliminate the problem. I will be going to an adjustable beam and stock spindles in spring 2023.

[Ian Godfrey]

what a great looking stance.
to fix the ball joint rubbing you can ream the hole in the drop spindle a bit deeper so the ball joint sinks in a little more. An annoying job as you need to take the spindles off again but at least there are no new parts to buy

[Ian Godfrey]

Cafemiguel, I have to say, not my CNC. I did the CAD drawing and my local machinist was happy to run the program on his machine. Oh I wish I had one of my own!

[kent70ghia]

I'm jealous, I have EMPI rivs, the old school ones are better! Your ride looks great

[kiwighia68]

[Craigbro]

Decided to go with the old school five spokes on my 64

[lasslo]

Will ride with Org Porsche steel wheels next summer...

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[A-Wild]

Mobelwagen Schnell

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[jeffrey8164]

Those are completely rad!
I haven’t seen those before.
What are they called and who sells them?
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[Teeroy]

4 lug Gas Burners

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[obus]

[A-Wild]

[Steelz21]

[jeffrey8164]

I think I’m already in the way back of this topic, but it might have been the tire, wheel and suspension thread.
Anyway, like Teeroy, I chose Gasburners but went 5x130 instead of 4 lug. I was getting new drums and rotors as well so…
I have 2 1/2” dropped spindles too like evan94.
I also took 3 degrees out of the rear spring plates to drop the rear an inch.

Wheels are all 5.5” X 15” with 5” backspace. No idea about ET. If anyone can translate that for me I’d appreciate it.
Tires are 195/45/15 front and 195/50/15 rear.

I’m surprised this is the only decent side shot I can find in my gallery.

I had a similar contact issue but mine was the sway bar.
I just used longer bolts for my steering stops.
Lost a little turning radius but not too bad.
Running around on the street is fine but tight parking lot maneuvering can get tricky.
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[lasslo]

Finally fitted my Porsche steel wheels. Not much clearance in the rear wheelwell…

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