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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 06:50 PM
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Need some wheels

Alright first off I will let you know I am not converting to 5 lug, now I am open to any and all suggestions or ideas as I am looking for wheels for my car, '89 mustang GT vert, and would just like some input from you all as to your favorites or possibly good places to look. Oh, and I also am pretty limited on funds so cheap wheels would be good too. Thanks!!
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 07:09 PM
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How about these . .

http://www.mustangtuning.com/1993-co...-silver4l.html
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 08:30 PM
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How about these....click link fo closer look.

http://www.tirerack.com/upgrade_garage/BigPic.jsp
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 90five0
Alright first off I will let you know I am not converting to 5 lug, now I am open to any and all suggestions or ideas as I am looking for wheels for my car, '89 mustang GT vert, and would just like some input from you all as to your favorites or possibly good places to look. Oh, and I also am pretty limited on funds so cheap wheels would be good too. Thanks!!
How large of a wheel do you want to run??? I have 18X9 Y2K Cobra R's on my car now with 235/40/18's on the front and 245/40/18's on the rear. I'm replacing them with these:

http://www.groupawheels.com/images/D...-Magnesium.jpg

http://www.groupawheels.com/driftr.html

The 8 inch wheels have a two inch lip and the 9 inch wheels have a 3 inch lip. My wheels are chrome and I'm running 18X8's in the front with a 235/40/18 tire and 18X9's in the rear with a 275/35/18 tire. They have them available in a Magnesium finish and a black finish as well. One important point I want to make out, on the earlier Stangs, up to 1990, you cannot run a rim any wider than 8 inchs. This is the reason I'm getting rid of my Y2k's. I can't get a large enough tire on the front to come out over the edge of the rim. I'll try and post pics of the new rims and the Y2k's on the car now so you can see what I'm taking about.

Jim
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 11:34 PM
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See my sig. My rims are a universal fit.
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Old Jun 8, 2006 | 03:01 AM
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I don't think 20 inch rims will fit a fox body without modification to wheel wells
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Old Jun 18, 2006 | 08:14 PM
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screw the mags alltogether and put tracks like army tanks have.... now for real life purposes i say try and find some bullit mags.. those always looked nice
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Old Jun 18, 2006 | 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by GT-Jim
screw the mags alltogether and put tracks like army tanks have.... now for real life purposes i say try and find some bullit mags.. those always looked nice

Bullit Wheels will require a 5 lug conversion. He wants to stay with the stock 4 lug set up. Unfortunately in doing so your choices in wheels are very limited. I had a set of ROH Drift R's come in for my car but I sent them back because I didn't like the way they looked. Nothing was wrong with them, just wasn't what I expected. I have these on order now:

http://www.discounttiredirect.com/pr...tsmo.p.ang.jpg


http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di...108&vid=006900

17X8's w/ 235/45/17's on the front and 18X9 w/ 275/35/18's in the rear. This is the closest your going to get to a Bullit style wheel without going to a 5 lug conversion. And yes these will fit the four lug bolt pattern, I called Discount Tire and double checked. The bolt pattern is 4-108.
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 06:27 AM
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you could get the second edition pony mags from the new ford racing catalog... the are the same mags in ur pic "90fiveO" but are completely chromed except for the horse emblem in the middle and are someting like 175 per mag... which is a very cool. For me pony mags are the way to go for ne mustang that dont wanna have a conversion done to it.... Go Pony Or Go Conversion for some bullits...
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 06:32 AM
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here is a pic of em...
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Old Jun 20, 2006 | 12:19 PM
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how bout some sweeeet cobra R rims!! theyre so secksy

http://www.mustangtuning.com/17x9-fo...ls-silver.html
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Old Jun 20, 2006 | 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Big D
how bout some sweeeet cobra R rims!! theyre so secksy

http://www.mustangtuning.com/17x9-fo...ls-silver.html

Or if you don't want chrome and can settle for a 16X8, Discount Tire has them on sale for $92.00 a piece. Might be good for a set of beater rims.

http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di...108&vid=006900
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