Josh is giving you good advice about that back spacing. Your stock wheels are 53mm offset if I remember correctly (too lazy to pull out the manual right now...). Another great site is:
www.tirerack.com
the i-club gets a discount so you might want to check there first:
www.i-club.com
And we had a massive discussion about this about 2-3 months back, its worth searching the archives on this site for that info.
The pics at tirerack aren't all that great (let's face it, nothing beats seeing 'em in real life). But once you know what you are looking for, its prolly the cheapest place to get wheels from, unless you know someone. I can't seem to wear down my current rubber fast enough so I can get new ones. I know it's not for lack of trying however! I just moved to a new appartment that has some awesome off ramps to the highways. I hit most of them at +55 mph
) I get a little squealing, I can't wait to replace them!
-Sambo
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Colombo [mailto:
jcc189@psu.edu]
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:38 AM
To:
BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] Rims/wheels please help
They will most likely NOT fit. I have a 90 Legacy sedan. I spent about a good year looking for wheels that would fit my car. The big problem is non of wheels had a great enough offset to suck the wheel into the fender well. I originally wanted to replace my stock 14" with a 15" wheels with 35 mm back spacing, that didn't work, I tried 38 mm back spacing, that didn't' work either. I have now a 16" wheel with 45 mm back spacing and they still rubbed just a bit, I had a guy taper my inner fender lip at the top, and it's been fine for a good 4+ years now.
I'm sorry to say this, but unless you find ones that are 45+mm or more, they will most likely not fit, they will rub. The earlier legacies have almost no rear fender flaring so trying to fit wheels on these cars is a little tougher. I would recommend looking at some impreza wheels or some newer legacy GT wheels.
Mine are a japanese racing wheel, which is why they have a greater backspacing. I have only seem them being sold at one place besides where I got mine, I was very surprised that the guy who got mine could even get them. They're about $200 a pop, (sorta normal) The company is called Racing Gear, I believe I have the Type M7 wheel.
Check out my site
www.personal.psu.edu/jcc189/subaru/subaru.html I have pics of the wheels and car on there.
As for speedo, What you need to do is figure out how tall your stock tire size is now, and then look for a tire that has a similar diameter but in a 16" wheel. You will plus size, probably need to get a 50 series tire to get around the same diameter.
Just an FYI: A smaller dia tire than original will make speedo read faster than actual, and larger dia tire will have slower speedo.
Shoot me an email if you got any more questions.
Josh
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nissan 240sx [ mailto:
nissans14@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:36 PM
To:
BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] Rims/wheels please help
I have a 1991 Subaru legacy sport sedan. From what I
have been told these are the wheels I have: 15" in
diameter, 6" wide, with a 55mm offset. The bolt
pattern is 5x100. Im interested in buying new rims.
The rims Im looking at says that they are
Were originally taken off a Toyota Celica GTS bored
the center hub to make these wheels available for the
Subaru. Center inserts and chrome lug nuts are
included. Wheel size: 16 x 6.5JJ, Bolt Pattern: 5 lugs
on 100 mm center, Offset: 39 mm.
Does anyone know if this will fit my Subaru? Also what
size wheel should I look into to keep the speedo
accurate?
Thanks
John
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