Late model Mopar Police wheels?

[Druid318]

Has anyone tried a set of 18" Mopar steel police wheels on a B body? These are modern, from the current Charger police cars. I bought a pallet of them at auction, but my car hasn't arrived and these wheels don't have tires on them anyway. I think they might look good if they fit. Sort of old school looking with the center caps, but large enough to have a good selection of modern tires.

 

[Druid318]

The car in question is an early B. 1964 Dodge 440 if that makes any difference in backspacing etc.

 

[JB400]

I think you'll find the back spacing off. Modern cars have a negative offset, meaning there is little to no dish to them.

 

[1967coronet440]

Different lug patterns

 

[5.7 hemi]

They’ll fit the bolt pattern, seen a few cars running them.

 

[WP29440SE]

you are going to need wheel spacers to use them. they are 5 on 115 but guys have been running them . I personally think they are ugly as hell

 

[1967coronet440]

They’ll fit the bolt pattern, seen a few cars running them.

You have to drill them out a little, 5x115 comes out to about 5x4.55 in inches. I tried throwing the wheels off my charger onto my coronet and they didn’t fit.

 

[SimDog]

See if you can reverse the centers to get more back spacing.

 

[5.7 hemi]

There’s a few guys over on FABO that have done it, that’s why I said they fit. I’ll go look and see if I can find it.

 

[5.7 hemi]

https://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopa...charger-magnum-300-wheels-on-a-74-dart.74008/

 

[patrick66]

These DO NOT FIT as a "bolt-on", period! Yes, they'll "fit". Sort of. As these are 115mm, and the standard 4-1/2" BP is 114.3mm, that is NOT the same. You will experience lug bolt failure, as the wheel nut does not make 100% contact with 100% of the contact surface between the nut and the wheel lug hole. It only makes contact at five very small points; one per lug. Stress failure occurs. You will have one of two things occur - the lug nuts will loosen and fail, or the lug bolts will get stress fractures, then snap and fail. This is physics, not opinion or conjecture; it is scientific FACT. With adapters, they'll work, but they look wrong on earlier cars, anyway.

 

[Druid318]

I'm going to see if I can sell them. I knew about the lug size mismatch, I wasn't sure on the backspacing. Kind of surprised to see so many people disliking the look though. They don't really look that much different than any other steel wheel.

 

[patrick66]

The offset doesn't help matters. They're attractive wheels, just not on old cars.