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NotanotherSR240
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Does anyone know about what the widest wheel I can run on my S13? I have charge speed 50mm wide quarter panel covers with the wheel well cut out.


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nismofly
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probably as wide as you can imagine

think low offset 12 or 13 inch wide

not my area of expertise really though, theres a few people here would can help more

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onosqv
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SEARCH!!!!

W/ 50mm rear panels, you can basically mold it to you're hearts desire & run like a x12 +10 or soemthing like that in the rear... I believe one of our members (chmercer) runs that in the rear of his s14 more or less... think they are for sale too - hot hot hot rims.

whiterps13
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have you ever thought of measuring? seriously, thats the only way you will ever know exactly how much room you have. there are calculators on here that will do the math (in-mm conversions etc.) for you. you just need to do the dirty work and get out there with a ruler.

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nismofly
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basically find a wheel that you like the fit of, and have it sitting 50mm outward

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

plug the size with stock fenders you like on the top, then play with the bottom width and offset until it says it sits 50mm outward

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BlackFlag_s13
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brokeAs240sx wrote:SEARCH!!!!

W/ 50mm rear panels, you can basically mold it to you're hearts desire & run like a x12 +10 or soemthing like that in the rear... I believe one of our members (chmercer) runs that in the rear of his s14 more or less... think they are for sale too - hot hot hot rims.
Nah, he runs a 18x12 -20 and a 18x10 -7 in the front

BTW I like using this calculator http://gs.tolan-hoechst.com/tirecalc.htm

chmercer
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you can run whatever size wheels you want basically. front you are limited by the steering ie scrub radius, eventually you get so much scrub radius that you have to widen the fenders in front and behind the well instead of just at the top to clear. that is at extreme levels though so no worries. rear is easy since it dosent have to turn, only go up and down. on my rear setup i could run 19x15 -19 with an arch flare, when you stretch 355s thats pretty much the max for DOT tires, beyond that you can run hard rain slicks to maintain streetability, these go up to like 16 inch wide which you could stretch on a 19x18 ccw if you wanted.

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whiterps13 wrote:have you ever thought of measuring? seriously, thats the only way you will ever know exactly how much room you have. there are calculators on here that will do the math (in-mm conversions etc.) for you. you just need to do the dirty work and get out there with a ruler.
This is what I keep wondering.

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19x15 -19

ROFL


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