Whats the largest rims you have seen on a Mustang?

wyldpny · Jul 17, 2008

I just saw a Mustang today and it had insanely large rims on it.
How he is able to even turn his wheel is beyond me.
Will post up pics in a few...

BurningRubber · Jul 17, 2008

The biggest I have personally seen are probaly 20-22" or so.

The biggest I have seen online were gargantuan. The damn Stang sits higher than my lightly lifted Jeep!

98COBRA281 · Jul 17, 2008

22"-24"

Killa · Jul 17, 2008

98COBRA281 said:
22"-24"

Oh hell NA !!!

mazen189 · Jul 17, 2008

lol, dude, anything over 18's is dumb, and ive only seen one guy pull of 19's which looked sick, but thats ONE guy.

enyawix · Jul 17, 2008

what will big rims do to track times?

BurningRubber · Jul 17, 2008

enyawix said:
what will big rims do to track times?

Make them equivelent to a stock late 80's Honda Civic with a triple deck wing and folgers can exhaust, plus 600 lbs worth of sterio equipment.

Does wonders for braking also.

Mustang5L5 · Jul 18, 2008

I have pictures of a fox body with 24's on it. It looks like a lifted truck

Stark77 · Jul 18, 2008

From my understanding - anything over 17" for stock brakes and stock powerplant is suboptimal for our cars. Even 18" on the rear can detract from your cars performance. Basically - more weight on the driveline means more power/torque required to move the driveline. Lighter is better.

wyldpny · Jul 18, 2008

Well, as you can see this guy didn't "raise" his car like a 4x4 for them to fit, he actually lowered it

Check it out, those are actuallly 24" rims on that stang:

bcollie67 · Jul 18, 2008

You should get a set of those wheels for your car! It would go with the current theme!

98COBRA281 · Jul 18, 2008

it being low, makes them look even bigger

flstang65 · Jul 18, 2008

wen i was stationed at ft hood last year there was a 96 gt that was running around with 24's.it was lifted like 4 inches. lol!. the sad thing is, was that it was s super clean car and in outstanding shape. ill see if i can find pics.

flstang65 · Jul 18, 2008

wyldpny said:
Well, as you can see this guy didn't "raise" his car like a 4x4 for them to fit, he actually lowered it

Check it out, those are actuallly 24" rims on that stang:

besides that its fuuuuugly, wow, all that extra rolling mass and stock brakes! how does he turn?

EPIK · Jul 18, 2008

I have actually seen 24" rims on a fox body in my town.

I took these pics on the freeway....IMO, it looks like a clown car.

flstang65 · Jul 18, 2008

was that a 4 cyl?

fudleyd · Jul 18, 2008

All I can say is...

wyldpny · Jul 18, 2008

bcollie67 said:
You should get a set of those wheels for your car! It would go with the current theme!

Oh really...exactly what theme would that be?

Mustang5L5 · Jul 18, 2008

Stark77 said:
From my understanding - anything over 17" for stock brakes and stock powerplant is suboptimal for our cars. Even 18" on the rear can detract from your cars performance. Basically - more weight on the driveline means more power/torque required to move the driveline. Lighter is better.

Depends really. For drag racing, smaller is better. 15's will outperform 17's by allowing more sidewall flew to soften a launch. Plus they are usually lighter.

In terns of road handling, larger rims are better to a point. The increase in turning response (due to smaller sidewall) is not always in proportion to the loss of acceleration and braking due to moving the mass of the wheel further away from center.

The heaviest part of the wheel is the rim part whichis the inside of the tire...the metal part. Larger diameter wheels push this further from the hub. It's like the lever theory - the farther from center, the more energy to move.

Now...in terms of looks, it's all subjective to what is proportional to the eye.

For fox bodies, i think 17's look good with the smaller fenders and body size.

For 94-98's, 17's and sometimes 18's look good

For 99+ with larger body and fenders, 18" looks the best. 17's sometimes look puny in the wells.

For 05+ though, 20's look awesome. Once you get awya from the whole bling bling thing, they can look very nice if done right.

There are always exceptions though. I have seen an '04 Cobra lowered on nice 20" rims that did look nice. The problem is most people who put 20" wheels are in the bling bling crowd and put gawdy wheels that belong in a rap video on the car

Stark77 · Jul 18, 2008

look at how TINY those brake rotors are on the red dubbed out mustang - unreal

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