Wheel Decisions

[Chlngrcrzy]

So i have a little bit of money i am going to spend this next month.  Couple of big ticket items i want to get taken care of. I want to buy some wheels for my challenger, and i need a few ideas or your opinions. My car is Sassy Grass green with a black vinyl. Will have new chrome bumpers and and polished up trim. So i am thinking of some nice chrome looking wheels, something like the old Cragars or Keystones. Also like some of the Foose options that are similar. Boyd Coddington also has a similar wheel. Any thoughts or alternate ideas?

[74challenger03]

Ive always loved the cragers and keystone look on the cars.

[72bluNblu]

Summit should give me a commission on these as often as I recommend them, but check out the Summit Legend series. They're available in chrome, although I have the gray with polished lip on my car. Mine are 17x9's with 5" backspace, but they come in everything from 15" to 22" in diameter and 7" to 9" wide.

http://www.summitracing.com/search/wheel-bolt-pattern/5-x-4-1-2-in/wheel-finish/chrome?SortBy=Default&SortOrder=Ascending&keyword=Summit%20Legend%20Wheels

[Cudaragtop]

Year One Cast Aluminum Magnums 17x9 and 17x8 look sweet on E Body Challengers.

[Cudaragtop]

I like these too. Year One Aluminum Mopar Style Cast Rallye Wheels 17x9 and 17x8

[brads70]

I like these too. Year One Aluminum Mopar Style Cast Rallye Wheels 17x9 and 17x8

  for the money ( relatively cheap as compared to other custom rims?) I would also recommend these. I think they look great! 17" also allows some good performance rubber and lots of sizing options 15" your rubber selections are very limited and getting worse every year. 

[Fern]

I have the same color, decided to go black rims instead of chrome.
Sorry for the bad pic, car still in garage.

[Chlngrcrzy]

Aw crud!       you guys are making this real difficult, now i have more choices and options to sift through. They all look great. Thanks

[KillerBee]

I'm running Old School wheels by MB motoring.

Mine are 15"x8" in gun metal gray with polished lips....(I like the bigger sidewall on 15" tires)

They also have them in chrome in 15" 17" 18" and 20" wheel sizes.

[anlauto]

I like the YearOne wheels pictured on the orange Challenger above, but I think that both Challenger and the blue AAR have too small of rear tires (height wise) I hope the tires I chose for my customer look taller once mounted on the car...

[72bluNblu]

I like the YearOne wheels pictured on the orange Challenger above, but I think that both Challenger and the blue AAR have too small of rear tires (height wise) I hope the tires I chose for my customer look taller once mounted on the car...

Based on the pictures I'd bet the rear tires on all of those cars are 275/40/17's, just like the one's I have. That makes them 25.7" tall, which is a bit short for the rear. The issue is that there's only a couple of car tires offered in a 275/50/17, and that's almost 28" tall. I haven't found anything in a 275/45/17, which would probably be ideal. You can get taller tires if you go wider, like 285 or 295, but then they don'd fit on a 9" wide rim, which is the widest offered in the Year One magnums's and rallye's.

Nitto make the NT 450 in a 275/50/17, that would probably be your best bet.

[anlauto]

Nitto make the NT 450 in a 275/50/17, that would probably be your best bet.

That's exactly what I bought...With a sidewall height of 5.41" and an overall height of 27.83"..........they're shown here on the left....

[soundcontrol]

I like my Foose Legends, kind of old Cragar style.

/Ken

[diyhemi.com]

Need more tire but riddler 695's I picked up from Mopar nats. 18x8 and 18x9.5 $400 new in boxes. (Rain swept through the swap meet and soaked the boxes so he gave them to me just above cost)




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[Racer57]

Nothing is better than classic Cragars in my opinion.