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smitty24
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| Im glad you listened to those Fuch guys; those chromie hunks of billet look like gangster poo! |
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chickengeorge
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Scott Faivre
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Were the fronts 17x7's? What was the offset?
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Cuņado Wear
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hello
not sure of offset but they were 17x7
still have set if your intrested in them new tires on them.
earl.
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Scott Faivre
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thanks for the offer, but I have new 17x7s and new tires. My backspacing is ET55 and I'm just wondering how much of a narrowed beam I'd need with the Disc brakes I'm running.
Thanks!
Scott Faivre
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ach60 
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I look at all the modern wheels and I see weight.
The bigger the hoop the more the weight.
So I look at a car with a small engine that lets say is 90-110 hp.
Pretty good for an air cooled vw, but to pull a 17" wheel?
Most likely you're throwing away HP to pull those wheels.
There is a reason the original Cal-look guys used Fuchs, BRMs, and Centerlines.
But all that analysis still takes us back to "It's your car, run what you want"
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Cuņado Wear
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Scott,
My beam with disc is just 2" narrowed. If I were to run these
Wheels again and do it all over I would have done a 3" narrowed
Beam. For me I would have liked them in just a little more or tuck
In a bit more . In last pic it about as low as I could go without rubbing.
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Cuņado Wear
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Al,
Good points.
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