Wheel fitment question

[Mark J. Besso]

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On my '84 4KQ (may it rest in pieces) I ran many different sets of wheels
with radically different offsets.

	***Stock 14x6" with 38mm offset were [obviously] fine.
Pic: http://5000tq.com/audifanspics/My-Cars-Past-and-Present/Front_view

	***I replaced the OE wheels with 14x6" Porsche 924 wheels with an
18mm offset and they worked fine with either 186/60-14 or 195/55-14 tires.
Sorry, no pictures...

	***For rallycrossing I used 15x6" Riken alloys with ~30mm offset and
205/50-R15 tires.
Pic:
http://5000tq.com/audifanspics/My-Cars-Past-and-Present/Marks_Rallycross_Aud
i_1

	***For ice racing I used 14x5.5" steel wheels with ~25mm offset from
a 1982 Ford Mustang with P175-R14 snow tires. (That means the actual profile
was a 78-series tire!)
Sorry, no pictures...

	***For hillclimb racing I used 15x6" 1991 SAAB 9000 alloys that had
~30mm of offset with 215/50-R15 tires.
Pic: http://5000tq.com/audifanspics/My-Cars-Past-and-Present/car30_1

The car was lowered ~1.5" with Eibach springs and I rarely had any rubbing
problems.  It only happened with the Porsche wheels if I had (4) people in
the car and hit a really big bump.

~Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: Huw Powell
Subject: Re: Wheel fitment question

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> I'd agree. I've swapped between 45 and 38 mm (negative) offset on both
> Audi's and VW's without any noticable effects. Some of the offset change
> will be necessary in order to deal with the change in rim width's, (it's
> moving the wheel out about 1/4" and at minimum, the new wheel is going to
be
> 1" wider, so it's still a bit touch and go), but as Grant says, a large
> change in offsets may make the negative scrub radius of VW/Audis become
> neutral (leads to tramelinnig)

Yah, that's what my 90Q does with 15 x 7 et 38 instead of 14 x 6 et 45
on it.

Pulls slightly away from crowns on roads, a bit twitchy.  But a nice
kinda twitchy, mostly, since I'm never anywhere near 9/10ths of anything.

--
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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