Now I am confused. That it the second time someone has told me that the GTS turbo should have 17's Mine came with the 16's mentioned above. The standard offset seems to be +31 & +38.
Am I getting something wrong here as the GTR wheels are +30 which means they stick out less ?!?
Basically I want to reduce the offset on the GTR wheels so they sit inside my GTS wings....
I've jut been delving in the garage and checked out my old "standard" 16" wheels
I work out that they are 6.5x16 offset 40
I had my head totally the wrong way round regarding offsets so this may be helpful;
More offset(higher number) brings the wheel into the car
Less offset(lower number) sets the wheel further out away from the car
My word of warning to anyone though is the offset isn't the only consideration with skylines, it's the wheel design, some wheels will not clear the calipers on the front.
I found out the hard way and ended up having to fit spacers and longer studs to make my wheels fit
There fine until you go over a bump with people in the back then they hit the upper arches and make a right racket. Plus I want to get a new lower suspension and I don't know whether this would make the problem worse or not...
You can get your arches "rolled" to eliminate this, basically there is a device which bolts to your hub and has a roller on the end of an arm which pushes the lip flat
I know demon tweeks do this, should imagine quite a few places do
this would probably be the best and cheapest option for you
wouldn't that make the arch profile higher though?
I was thinking about getting some of GhostRiders GTR arches but they are £300 plus fitting and spraying. I haven't got the cash yet so I thought for the sake of £12 a wheel I'd get the offset of the wheels changed.
go to the gallery and look under tonysmiffs pics and mine for pics of my car. it dont cost too much. but be willing to pay a bit especially if the paint cracks still cheaper than buying the arches
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