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Old 08-05-2008, 08:54 PM
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what would backspacing be for 17x4.50 skinnie be? im lookin at the gregweld racelites.they will be going on a 94 camaro..since 15's dont want to work with my baer brakes.

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on their site it only shows them available in 2.25" which should be about right but im not sure how caliper clearance is
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think it'll be anyworse then now? i ordered 15x3.5 stars from gregweld..even with 2 5/16 spaces on the wheel it still hit the caliper..i was hoping with the wider wheel(17x4.5), it would give more clearence for caliper to not hit..or is my theory false? could i get away with a racelite 17" and a 5/16 spacer?

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it isnt necessarily the BS but also the shape of the mounting pad of the wheel on the hub space.

without seeing a wheel in person, if i were to guess i would say your still gonna run into a problem

i can tell you from personal experience with my holeshots that there is ALOT of material that can come off the front calipers

edit: i was referring to ls brakes. dont have any experience with lt brakes




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