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radioactive_ben - January 2nd, 2006 at 05:43 PM

Hi

I am looking at some wheels for my '67 beetle but i am thinking they may be a bit big. They are 18x8 et50mm so i was wondering does it seem like they are gonna be to big and really screw up my turning circle and stuff also would anyone happen to have a photo of a bug with 18 inch wheels on them i wanna see how high they sit ? ill see if i can include a pik of the rims

you can see the wheels at http://wheeldynamics.net/Wheels3.jpg 

Cheers


[ Edited on 2-1-2006 by radioactive_ben ]

DIY-DUB - January 2nd, 2006 at 06:26 PM

i got pics of 19's and 20's on bugs in the us i think, and theres a super in newcastle with 19's theres a heap of pics on SBO!:thumb ill post the pics i have when i find them

71superbug - January 2nd, 2006 at 09:39 PM

are those porsche cup 4's?

id say you will DEFINATELY not be fitting them under stock guards.


Anthony

radioactive_ben - January 2nd, 2006 at 09:43 PM

Nah they are turbo 2's and what would be the max size that i would fit on?


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71superbug - January 3rd, 2006 at 01:43 AM

they look nothing like cup 2's..or do you mean cup 3 turbo twists? :S although i swear they still look like the cup 4 from mille miglia (spelling?)

im not sure with your standard beetle. but i do know that even for a super. in order to fit 17x7 up front under stock guards i am going to be getting narrowed struts. at the rear on a super 8' wide is fine but im not sure with a standard beetle sorry.

someone must know for this guy.

free bump for ya anyway.


Anthony

Dasdubber - January 3rd, 2006 at 07:17 AM

The ET50 is what will cause problems. Here are my Cup 3 turbo twist replicas which are 17 x 7.5 (ET52)

http://www.manxgallery.org/gallery/albums/album55/cups9_Jun7.sized.jpg

I have a ball joint front end with CB dropped spindles and discs in porsche pcd. Originally I installed them with standard width beam and no spacers and I could hardly turn the steering wheel before the inner edge of the rim hit the trailing arm (lower).

So I had 20mm spacers machined (engineer approved as they were considered part of the brake conversion) - this fixed the turning circle problem, but then the outer edge of the tyre fouled the lip of the guard.

So then I had to narrow the beam 80mm and now all is well.

Anything is possible with time and money :)
Check out the http://www.germanlook.com/Forums  site in the wheels section - may find some more help there.

[ Edited on 2-1-2006 by Dasdubber ]