A6's on 5.5 four lug narrow body Options

[ww914]

Will they work? Anybody running them?

[brant]

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]

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]

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.


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Very nice looking, but I guess somewhat different now. Do you recall what size 5 lug wheels you were using?

[Randal]

[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.


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Very nice looking, but I guess somewhat different now. Do you recall what size 5 lug wheels you were using?
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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.