RWD Offset on FWD

[FYADUP]

Was wondering if theres any way to get deep dish wheels on a fwd car? i love my car, but also love deep dish wheels. What could be a way? Some kind of conversion?

Thanks Jason

[rwd_mayhem]

ive seen old school deep dish wheels on fwd familias/lasers but they do stick way out the guards.

[frost]

i think deep dish on fwd cars looks wrong, i saw a prelude with rwd offset wheels the other night and just could not find myself liking it,

[rxtoy]

there are a few FWD wheels that have a bit of dish, i'm thinking along the lines or lenzo deep 6's and the like, with curved in spokes so the face is still flush with the outer rim but the spokes go an inch or two into the wheel rim.

if you run RWD wheels on a FWD car though they will stick out, there's no way to get around it. been there, tried that. you could flare the guards to make it work but it would be pretty hard on the front axle's and CV joints with the turning radius pushed outwards, i wouldn't want to try it.

i'd say there's an easy fix but i don't want more people jumping on the RWD bandwagon and taking options away from me

there's plenty of nice FWD options out there, just find one you like.

cheers
Matt

[deaf_rattle]

there is a red ae92 sedan that ive seen driving around with what looks to be be those modular type wheels. looks pretty sweet.

there are plenty of fwd wheels with dish.

and saying dish looks silly on fwd is stupid.

[Boosted_162]

They were +38 offset, with a good 2" of dish..

[Snoozin]

That doesn't count as dish. That's pretend dish

[Boosted_162]

That doesn't count as dish. That's pretend dish

Its the closest thing to dish on a FWD/4WD

[neo]

if the center of those wheels was gunmetal, damn they'd look hot on a fwd

[frost]

LOL thats not dish, thats a wheel with a gutter

this is dish...

[Boosted_162]

But they have a really low offset don't they? He said for FWDs, and RWD ones stick out too far. The pic i posted is FWD offset. Without some other mods, RWD wheels with dish just wont work.

[frost]

sorry if it sounded negative i was trying to be a smart ass and it came out wrong, your right, that is the only way to get dish in fwd without big ass flares,

bloody auto word changer thing

[Boosted_162]

sorry if it sounded negative i was trying to be a smart buttocks and it came out wrong, your right, that is the only way to get dish in fwd without big buttocks flares,

bloody auto word changer thing

No worries, i do however have to admit real dish + flares is awesome. Pity i don't have a car that can pull it off

[scope]

have you ever hit your fence?

[RomanV]

I've yet to see a modern car/wheel that suited having a lot of dish. It just looks like crap when you're running 17 or 18 inch rims.

Like in the example posted, where they've got 'gutter' instead of dish... doesnt look cool!

Oldschool 14" or 15" rims are the only ones that suit a bit of dish IMO.
The ratio of the dish to rim size doesnt work well with 17" wheels etc... I reckon some of the nicest 'new' wheels are ones which have little to no dish, but a nice looking shape.

[frost]

have you ever hit your fence? Laughing

haha you can just see a blade of grass between the bumper and fence,

romanv speaks the truth

[Mr Revhead]

choosing offset for looks is silly.
and potentially dangerous

[frost]

for RWD. depending on how wide the wheels are, its quite safe to go down to -7 offset,

like 14" 7jj -7 is ok. i have been running this daily for 2 years and no sign of greater wear on the joints,bearings,
but 14" 5.5 -7 would be pushing it, wheel bearing wise anyway.

but i'd agree in fwd its pushing the limits of safety.