Tire and Wheel Change on my Charger
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I'm told that ET wheels is in Northern CA and that they make the wheels to order. You can specify width and back spacing.
They are available in widths greater than 8" too.
They are available in widths greater than 8" too.
I dig Weld Drag Lites, especially the polished version. They also offer them in black. I wish they made them in 18" diameter.
These look pretty bad-*** and it's offered in several colors:
Fuel FC860 Hype
Fuel FC860 Hype
Those wheels are a great choice. Do you have a link for them?
Texas97
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the Restomods charger wheels have a slightly different color but when i look around at the anthracite on cars, it looks like its just a dull shiny. i think i like the gloss black with chrome edge better.
American Racing Vintage VN514 GROOVE 18X8 5X4.5 4.5 0mm ANTHRACITE WITH DIAMOND CUT LIP - VN514AD18801200
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Charged440
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Those are nice, do you have the coil over setup in the rear like the restomod Charger?
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It looks like 10 inch version of that wheel has too much back space for a stock setup. I ran into the same thing.
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im going to have to do the measurements before ordering. i think 10" will fit mine, because i have them now but the backspacing is the clincher
ZDECKICH
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The back spacing at 5.5 on 18x10's work. I have the AR VN510's and no rubbing on stock leaf springs.
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EXCELLENT photos. This is very helpful. Man, you're making a good case for me to switch from 15's to 18's....
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Really? 8+ months that I had your car at my place wasn't enough to sway you?
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Looks good, I had a 275-60 with 5 inches of backspace and had a fingers clearance, so that's where my thought came from. Maybe the sidewall bulge between the two sizes is making the difference here.
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I think those wheels look too much like the ones used on Ford rally cars back in the day, such as the Escort RS1800 and old Austi Mini's:
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I like the look but for me, they need to have a deeper dish, Front wheel drive type wheels with too much backspacing makes them look flat to me. The red Cooper has more dish but holy cow those are small diameter!
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Original mini's used 10" wheels for many years, even mini cooper's. Later models used 12's
The wheels on that escort and mini are likely real Minilite's There are numerous clone versions.
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what tires did you end up going with?
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I don't know what size, but those look like Nitto G2.
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