Fuchs wheels and narrow body cars ?

[Tspringer]

I am going to be building another narrow body hotrod, I just got an extremely clean and rust free '71 T chassis as the basis.

The car came with steelies (which I plan to sell). I will need a set of fuchs for it. In fact, I will need 2 sets, one for street and one for track.

On my old '69 S hotrod, I ran the deep 6s it came with with 205/50R15's all around. On the track, I ran 15x6 fronts and 15x7 rears with 225/45R15 Hoosiers. The low profile track tires did fine, no rubbing or issues but I ran lots of negative camber.


I could go the same route, but I would really like to run 7" rears and 225/50R15. I understand that means I would need the super expensive 7R Fuchs for the rear. Not in the budget right now.

Or I could have a set of replica 7R's made. Any ideas how much that would cost? Can the flat (and much cheaper) 15x6 Fuchs be used as the basis for a replica 7R?

Is there any difference in offsets between the flat style 15x7 and the deep 6 15x7 Fuchs?

My car will be a hotrod. It does not matter if the wheels are matching date codes or any of that sort of stuff. My concern is that they look great and when polished and painted don't the flat style and the deep 6s look pretty much the same?

[BK911]

I run 225.50.15s on regular 15x7 fuchs on all 4 courners of a stock fendered 73 with no issues.

[IROC]

Originally Posted by BK911

I run 225.50.15s on regular 15x7 fuchs on all 4 courners of a stock fendered 73 with no issues.

I ran the same setup on my '76 in the pre-flare days.

The Holy Grail would be to run 8s front and rear with 245s on a '69-'77. I run 245s on 8s now in the front (stock '76 fenders) and I had heard rumors years ago of someone running 8s in the rear with 245s (maybe 951 Fuchs?), so maybe it can be done.

That would be a hot rod!!