NEW WHEELS!

[STRATUS]

Thanks for all your comments! I'm sweating it out now. Here's some more details. Do you think I'll be in good shape with the wheels/tire/fender flare combo considering...

Wheels: 18x9 -12 Method M305/DB
Tires: 35x12.5x18 TOYO AT111
Fender Flares: Maxlider Brothers/1" wider than SASQ flares. https://shop.maxliderbros.com/products/maxlider-vintage-fender-flares

It sounds like you all really know your stuff...so I appreciate the feedback.

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[STRATUS]

Lift yesterday, wheels today. Stay tuned for the new fender flares. Better pictures coming. It's raining today.

What do you all think so far?

 

[wetdog]

I have 5 of these waiting on my base man squatch I didn't get the double black but I am changing the bolts out for stainless 33.00 a set from method.
I chose 0 offset too.

 

[STRATUS]

I have 5 of these waiting on my base man squatch I didn't get the double black but I am changing the bolts out for stainless 33.00 a set from method.
I chose 0 offset too.

Nice! FYI...mine are -12.

 

[STRATUS]

Here's a couple more pics.

 

[wetdog]

Yes -12 is alot of poke, at 0 I can always do stuff to make more poke,unpoking is the hard part.

 

[STRATUS]

Fender flares added today

 

[feralc]

lots and lots of poke >> 30mm + (-12) = 42mm which is 1.6 inches. Because these are 9" vs the oem 8.5", then you add .25" inches to either side so the total (1.6" + .25) = 1.85" of total poke

I have been playing with the tiresize.com offset calculator to visualize how different wheels and tires would look and I am a bit confused about this statement. The calculator doesn’t consider the change of width of the wheel only the tire, but in your calculation you are adding the difference of 8.5 vs 9 to 0.25 per side. I am confused because the real poke would be the tire not the wheel, the wheel is always wider than the wheel 315 are 12.50, 295 are 11.77 and even 255 are 10.43. Unless you install a narrower tire than a wheel (like a tuned Honda civic without mufflers and a rear wing) the tire is always poking more than the wheel. Or I am confused??

 

[Raptor911]

funny .. someone corrected me in another thread that wheel width does not matter which confuses me.

A tire is mounted to the wheel so in the same manner where a wide tire can get pinched by a narrow wheel .. can't a wide tire on a wide wheel expanded accordingly?

Also isn't poke .. just poke. Does it matter what is poking? a 9" wide wheel when compared to a 8.5" wheel is .5" wider so it has to go somewhere right?

I have been playing with the tiresize.com offset calculator to visualize how different wheels and tires would look and I am a bit confused about this statement. The calculator doesn’t consider the change of width of the wheel only the tire, but in your calculation you are adding the difference of 8.5 vs 9 to 0.25 per side. I am confused because the real poke would be the tire not the wheel, the wheel is always wider than the wheel 315 are 12.50, 295 are 11.77 and even 255 are 10.43. Unless you install a narrower tire than a wheel (like a tuned Honda civic without mufflers and a rear wing) the tire is always poking more than the wheel. Or I am confused??

 

[feralc]

funny .. someone corrected me in another thread that wheel width does not matter which confuses me.

A tire is mounted to the wheel so in the same manner where a wide tire can get pinched by a narrow wheel .. can't a wide tire on a wide wheel expanded accordingly?

Also isn't poke .. just poke. Does it matter what is poking? a 9" wide wheel when compared to a 8.5" wheel is .5" wider so it has to go somewhere right?

“It has to go somewhere”
Yes it will make the tire less “meaty”, and if you go to the other extreme you would have a stretched tire. That is my guess

 

[Lucky13!]

Fender flares added today

Your setup looks perfect. Congrats

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