Factory looking wheels only wider?

[Jack_Tar]

I have a customer that has a 1979 Z28 and he wants to keep the factory front wheels and have a set of wider rear wheels that match. Does anyone know of a company that is making the the 79 style 5 spoke Z28 wheels aftermarket, or where I could have the factory wheels cut and made wider? Cutting the factory wheels is a last resort.

[RAIIIT/A]

Try Stockton wheel.

[PxTx]

These are the guys you want:

http://www.weldcraftwheels.com/index-1.html

[RichSchmidt]

Ditto on Stockton wheels. I am having them make my 14x7 Camaro rallys into 15x8's for the front,and 15x10's on the back. They dont use a filler strip to widen the wheel. The have "hoops" in various sizes,and just cut the center out of your wheel,and install it into their new hoops. They do it on a fixture,so while they are at it,it straightens out the wheel. Even if the center is slightly bent,the center is bolted onto the fixture,and welded into the hoop,so aside from the center sitting a bit crooked,even a bent center would roll true. In the case of my 14" wheels,they can use a filler hoop that takes any space between the smaller center and the larger hoop.

[PxTx]

Are we talking about Stockton doing this to aluminum wheels, like what the original poster was askign about?

[RichSchmidt]

Oops,I was thinking of the steel 5 spoke wheels,not the aluminum turbine wheels.

[PxTx]

Looks like I am the fool. I thought these wheels were available in 1979, but now relize with your post it was steel 5 spoke or aluminum turbine.



Also, it looks like they are being reproduced.

http://www.ss396.com/mm5/merchant.mv...t_Code=NZW-157

[Jack_Tar]

Also, it looks like they are being reproduced.

http://www.ss396.com/mm5/merchant.mv...t_Code=NZW-157



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I was refering to the steel wheels

[PxTx]

What did you end up doing? Pics?

[Jack_Tar]

Nothing yet, we are still throwing around ideas and that detail is not pressing yet.