Chad
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I have been updating my Polara thread regularly with all the work I’ve done the past couple weeks, but I wanted to post my new wheels and tires in this thread as well to get some feedback on stance and rear suspension height.
I’ve been digging hardcore on Craigslist, OfferUp, eBay, and all over the web looking for wheels to replace my 15” steelies with Chev wire caps on them. My tires were almost new, but the wheels just didn’t fill up the wells enough and intrinsically they didn’t do the car any favors. Pretty much everywhere I was seeing at least $115 ea. per wheel and would still need tires. I wanted to go bigger (up to 19), but the cost was just too high for my budget. I just bought the car, yanked the motor apart, and put it back together, as well as needing things like exhaust and 4 bbl swap parts.
Anyways so yesterday on Craigslist I typed in 5x4.5 and this set of wheels showed up, listed at $575, about 2 hours and a ferry ride away. I sent the seller a text and left a voicemail saying I was extremely interested and would come out same day. He got back to me, we set a time, and I crossed my fingers. I even thought the price might have been a typo and should be $1575.
So I went out deep into the sticks and bought the wheels, for $500
They are American Racing AR 135’s
The fronts are 17x8, 5x4.5, 4.5 inch backspacing, and et0 offset. Tires are 95% 225/45/17 directional front
Rears are 18x8, 5x4.5, 4.5 backspacing and also et 0 255/40/18 95% tread.
Great deal.
I’m going to bolt them up in a couple hours, the car is at the exhaust shop getting a dual system put in.
Here are some pics! I’ll add more later after the install.
The car now with original wheels
The car the wheels came off of...
Wheel resting in front of car
The wheels themselves
I’ve been digging hardcore on Craigslist, OfferUp, eBay, and all over the web looking for wheels to replace my 15” steelies with Chev wire caps on them. My tires were almost new, but the wheels just didn’t fill up the wells enough and intrinsically they didn’t do the car any favors. Pretty much everywhere I was seeing at least $115 ea. per wheel and would still need tires. I wanted to go bigger (up to 19), but the cost was just too high for my budget. I just bought the car, yanked the motor apart, and put it back together, as well as needing things like exhaust and 4 bbl swap parts.
Anyways so yesterday on Craigslist I typed in 5x4.5 and this set of wheels showed up, listed at $575, about 2 hours and a ferry ride away. I sent the seller a text and left a voicemail saying I was extremely interested and would come out same day. He got back to me, we set a time, and I crossed my fingers. I even thought the price might have been a typo and should be $1575.
So I went out deep into the sticks and bought the wheels, for $500
They are American Racing AR 135’s
The fronts are 17x8, 5x4.5, 4.5 inch backspacing, and et0 offset. Tires are 95% 225/45/17 directional front
Rears are 18x8, 5x4.5, 4.5 backspacing and also et 0 255/40/18 95% tread.
Great deal.
I’m going to bolt them up in a couple hours, the car is at the exhaust shop getting a dual system put in.
Here are some pics! I’ll add more later after the install.
The car now with original wheels
The car the wheels came off of...
Wheel resting in front of car
The wheels themselves