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Old Mar 26, 2010 | 06:02 PM
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I've heard good things about these guys
http://www.motorsport-tech.com/wheel_adapters.html
 
Old Mar 26, 2010 | 06:06 PM
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Well unless I can find 5mm adapters nope! We measured out 20mm the smallest we have found (*other than krip who just called me @ 15mm) but this is what 20mm on a ET33 will look like! So yeah NO LOL!

So if anyone wants some 5x100s lemme know!!!
 
Old Mar 26, 2010 | 06:22 PM
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if u go custom wide body itll work hahah
bummer they didnt work out though
 
Old Mar 26, 2010 | 06:40 PM
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Damn dude......It sucks when things don't work out. Instead of making them work, I think it would be easier to just bite the bullet and either ask for the money back from the previous owner or sell 'em yourself. I had to face the music as well. I know how hard a decision it is.....
 
Old Mar 26, 2010 | 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by ObnoxiousDrunk
Damn dude......It sucks when things don't work out. Instead of making them work, I think it would be easier to just bite the bullet and either ask for the money back from the previous owner or sell 'em yourself. I had to face the music as well. I know how hard a decision it is.....
I listed them on CL this morning! I called the seller and he wants nothing to do with it... POS is what he is...
 
Old Mar 26, 2010 | 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by chocalotstarfish
I listed them on CL this morning! I called the seller and he wants nothing to do with it... POS is what he is...
I got the same response when my buddy picked up the wheels I wanted to refinish. I bought the wheels for $100 (no big deal). My buddy did not see the hairline cracks on EVERY spoke of the wheel. Not to mention on wheel had a crack that looked like someone used JB Weld to fix. Needless to say, I spoke to the seller and he said.....you should have raised issue when your buddy picked up the wheels. It was only a hundred bucks but still. Sold those ******* for scrap.

At least now when YOU sell them, you won't mislead the buyer and you can still probably get what you paid for them back. Getting duped sucks
 
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 01:25 PM
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Nice poke!

You can pull it off with some negative camber.
 
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 09:31 PM
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you sure you measured out 20mm correctly...? I know of at least two different guys who ran 8.5" wide wheels, one with et18 and the other with et21 and neither were really poking, pretty much flush though. 8" et13 should be pretty much the same shouldn't it? (with one piece wheels) .5" wider would bring it farther out .25" which is ~6mm, correct?

here's 8.5" et21
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I think you should recheck that poke.... have you considered redrilling?
 
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 10:53 PM
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yea i had though that seemed alittle much on the poke but i assumed he was doing good measuring lol
 
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 10:55 PM
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What's the width of the second picture (black B5)?

If it's 8.5, I don't think he's running ET 18. I know that 8.5 with ET 25 is pretty much flushed for B5 (not poking). So if the second B5 is running 8.5 wide with ET 18, he should be poking a lot more.
 

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