post your 17" & 18" wheels

I'm looking at getting some wheels for my comet gt, they must be at least 17's to fit cobra brakes up front. Also if you could note the width and backspacing. I'm thinking either newer bullits, older style 17 torque thrust, magnum 500, minilites or shelby (eleanor style) wheels.

 

What backspacing? Wheels size? Tire size?

 

'05-'09 OEM Mustang Silver Bullitt 17's. 8" width, 6" backspacing corrected to 4" (rear) and 4.25" (front) using 2" and 1.75" wheel adapters. In the above pics I'm running stock Mustang size 235/55 tires. They're 27" tall, made the speedometer wrong and the car had to be lowered (in my opinion) for them to look right. Still it drove fine and looked good. I've since switched to 235/45's which are 25", closer to stock diameter so the speedometer is ok again and I think they look even better. No rubbing with the new tires, slight rubbing with the old ones but nothing serious.

Why so much detail? I get more PMs about my wheels and tires than anything else. I don't mind, but maybe it will be more efficient if I can just point people here from now on.

 

5.95" backspace(+24mm offset), 17x9, 245/45/17

*1" spacer in front, 1.25" spacer in rear*

 

Bullitt wheels look awesome on these cars!

 

Ive had mine on for a few yrs now... how do u think i feel

 

Do any of you have any rubbing, full lock turn or just added passenger weight

 

never rubbed once. full lock-to-lock turn, 3 passengers at once (me being 280lbs myself), nothing....

but i do plan to roll the lip in the qt's later on for a 10.5" rim and 295/35 tire

 

You running Granada spindles? I am, and my wheels could not handle any less spacer than I have now without the inner lip hitting the tie rod end. On the back I could run 1.5, but any closer and I'd be on the leaf spring...

Are you running a different front end? Is your rear end stock? Maybe your wheels are just shaped a bit different... It seems weird that you can get away with spacers that small when your wheels are a bit wider than mine.

 

this is a 9.5 with a 275 40 17 on my 4 door ldo....1.5 inch spacer and rolled lips

 

Not with the current tires, but the 55's would rub a little when there was some weight in the car.

 

yup, stock Mav spindles and rear end.... but u have to consider that the '05-up wheels have even more offset than wheels designed for 94-04 cars. that's why ur car needed a bigger spacer where i could get away with a smaller one

 

That would indeed make sense, but when you said you had nearly 6" backspacing I thought you had to be running '05-up wheels. Yeah, the '94-'04 wheels need about one inch less of a spacer.

 

You can buy those rims with the old back spacing from american racing.....I have 17x8 for the frt and a 17X10.5 running the r888 toyo road race dot legal tires