Wheels-Tires Wheel/tire Combos Known To Fit

78CobraII said:

Great find! I've looked at the Minilite (http://www.minilite.co.uk/) and Panasport (http://www.panasport.com/) wheels out of Europe a couple of times, but the price scared me away. They have a great 70's-80's sports car look like these that you found. I love minilites, but I photo shopped them on my II and I didn't think they looked right. I have a 60's road race theme in mind.

I don't think that the 4" backspace will get you...factory is 3.75". Its the offset that you have to be careful of.

The 15x7 Fox Mustang wheels mostly came with 12mm of positive offset. With these wheels, the MII needs about a 3/8" spacer at each wheel, maybe more if you use a 60 series tire or one wider than 225 width.

If you can get these in 5mm or less positive offset (0 is factory) and aren't going to run a really big tire, you could probably skip the spacers.

If these are essentially custom made and have to be imported from Great Britain, I'd consider a getting 5th wheel and extra center caps. The 14" come with 16mm offset and 102mm Back space (4") They have a 3 pce wheel that comes in 15" that are available in any configuration, but they are something like $350.00 each!!

Here's some other possibilities:

Eagle Alloys (http://aewheel.com/) still advertises their Series 028, 203, 206, and 218 in 4-4.25", 15x7, 0 offset, and 4" backspacing.

Koenig (http://www.konigwheels.com/catalog_product_details.cfm?CategoryID=1&ss_id=405) still makes a 15x7 wheel called "Rewind" that looks like a Minilite and is 4 lug and 0 offset, but they don't give a bolt circle, so it may be Nissan/Toyota (4-100mm?)...I looked into these. I can't remember the bolt circles but, they don't come in 4 X 4 1/4" anyway

Comopotive also makes a wheel like a Minilite in good sizes for us, and in 4-lug, but again no published bolt circle (http://www.usacomp.com/mlr.htm). These come in the bolt pattern I checked before.

These Ronal "mesh" wheels would look good on a MII, but would be pushing the backspacing a bit at 9mm: http://www.ronalusa.com/wheels/ls.html

Don't forget that Centerline has a custom forged wheel line at reasonable prices: http://www.centerlinewheels.com/customs/customs1.php

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maverickwolfe said:

I know the stock tire was 195/70-13 but obviously that's a bit hard to come by these days so I ended up with a 185/70-13 on my stock rims.
I like the black and chrome of the stocker, so I'm just gonna clean and repaint them; but I need more meat, cuz these rubber pizza cutters ain't cuttin' it. so here's the question for you olders and wisers - How big a tire can I put on the stock 13x5.5(?) wheels?

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maverickwolfe said:

I know the stock tire was 195/70-13 but obviously that's a bit hard to come by these days so I ended up with a 185/70-13 on my stock rims.
I like the black and chrome of the stocker, so I'm just gonna clean and repaint them; but I need more meat, cuz these rubber pizza cutters ain't cuttin' it. so here's the question for you olders and wisers - How big a tire can I put on the stock 13x5.5(?) wheels?

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