Wheels that fit

[Oggz]

Heyo,

So I have an old rim with a cross ply tyre on it(came with the wagon, same colour too), back face to inside rim lip is about 95mm, back spacing. Now from what I can gather, backspacing is a good overall idea of what will fit and not interfer with the inner suspension and hopefully clear the drums, outer guard is a different problem.

Trying to find a wheel that will fit the stock front end, with stock drum brakes and I wonder how much back space I can have before things start rubbing?

Does anyone have experience with 15x6" superlites? would 100mm backspacing still fit?

Wanted to try 15" because there are a few more options out there for tyres, 14" seems to be worse than 13" for choice.

My guess is I will just have to suck it and see. I have done a fair bit of google fu, but the older these cars get, seems like there is less info available and inside knowledge the go.

Cheers
J

[Errol62]

I am more familiar with HR disc than original. They tend to be limited in backspace by fouling the outer tie rod end, but also the ball joint end of the top control arm. You can add around 6mm to stock, which added toyour measurement of 95mm gives 4”.

With stock fronts and  particularly 13” rims, they foul during full lock, on the end of the upper control arm, but this can be ground a bit for clearence.

I run nothing wider than 6” rims on front, maintaining legal track, which is not more than 25mm greater than stock. I run custom 13 & 14” steelies, and 14” Sampson Magnums, with between P05 and P10 offsets, which equate to a maximum of 98mm backspace.

I have found plenty of sizes in 13” and 14” tyres. Nangkang have 185/75R13 and 235/60R13. On the 14” rims I run 195/70R14 and 205/60R14. I don’t remember the brand.

No experience with the wheels you mention, but most tend to be available in multiple offsets and getting matching sets or pairs second hand can be fraught. I have a set of13x7” Splatts that were on my wife’s FB when we got it. They have negative offset and are too wide for the front in my opinion. They are over legal track by about 10mm.


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