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A6's on 5.5 four lug narrow body |
ww914 |
Feb 27 2013, 07:05 PM
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914 Convert Group: Members Posts: 435 Joined: 29-September 11 From: Central Coast, CA Member No.: 13,621 Region Association: Central California |
Will they work? Anybody running them?
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brant |
Feb 28 2013, 10:57 AM
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914 Wizard Group: Members Posts: 11,632 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Colorado Member No.: 47 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
I would give it a try.
because they are recommending 5.5 - 7.0, I'd definitely give it a try the A tires are really really really good! the only problems I see are: 1) your giving up a tiny bit of the tires capability 2) a hoosier 205 may or may not fit inside of a stock fender. Hoosiers are made wider than any other tire... so a 205 hoosier is going to be nearly an inch wider than a 205 street tire.. you should be able to cut the lip, bend the lip, or pull/roll the fender enough pretty easily. A 5.5inch rim is probably not going to change the need to pull the fender lip any different than you would have to do with a 7inch rim. Plus you can stay 4 bolt and find different 4bolt rims that are wider if you want to. There are 4bolt 7's out there. |
Randal |
Mar 1 2013, 11:52 AM
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I would give it a try. because they are recommending 5.5 - 7.0, I'd definitely give it a try the A tires are really really really good! the only problems I see are: 1) your giving up a tiny bit of the tires capability 2) a hoosier 205 may or may not fit inside of a stock fender. Hoosiers are made wider than any other tire... so a 205 hoosier is going to be nearly an inch wider than a 205 street tire.. you should be able to cut the lip, bend the lip, or pull/roll the fender enough pretty easily. A 5.5inch rim is probably not going to change the need to pull the fender lip any different than you would have to do with a 7inch rim. Plus you can stay 4 bolt and find different 4bolt rims that are wider if you want to. There are 4bolt 7's out there. Here is my car (some time ago) with the narrow body and 205 Hoosiers. I think we did do the baseball bat thing on the wheel wells. |
ww914 |
Mar 1 2013, 12:33 PM
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914 Convert Group: Members Posts: 435 Joined: 29-September 11 From: Central Coast, CA Member No.: 13,621 Region Association: Central California |
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Randal |
Mar 1 2013, 05:13 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,446 Joined: 29-May 03 From: Los Altos, CA Member No.: 750 |
[quote name='ww914' date='Mar 1 2013, 10:33 AM' post='1828097']
Here is my car (some time ago) with the narrow body and 205 Hoosiers. I think we did do the baseball bat thing on the wheel wells. [/quote] Very nice looking, but I guess somewhat different now. Do you recall what size 5 lug wheels you were using? [/quote] Ha, yea somewhat different. I believe those fuchs were 7"ers as that was the max wheel width we could run with the GGA PCA group here. |
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