vette wheels?

[cammed up v6]

hi im new to this sight and was wondering if i could run vette wheels on my 83 malibu

 

[DOUG213XRJ]

Not sure what year Vette wheels your looking at, but the 1980s and down fit fine. The 1990s wheel have a different off set, But I have seen them on Malibu wagons. Theres a member on here who had a blue Malibu wagon and then a red wagon with chrome Corvette wheels. Doug

 

[cammed up v6]

i was looken at the "sawblade" style wheels

 

[Betcha618]

Front & Rear 17"x 9.5" 56mm (7.4" backspacing)

You might run into a problem with the 7.4" backspacing. Its like the same offset as a front wheel drive rim. I'm sure anyone that has run these on a G-Body has had a decent size spacer behind the wheel.

 

[cammed up v6]

the sawblade style is a 16 im pretty sure?

 

[Betcha618]

regardless, backspacing is going to be a problem i think. they have almost a FWD offset.

 

[cammed up v6]

okay how about the new style vet wheels? i now you can run them on an s10 with spacers on the front and the s10 and malibu are the same bolt pattern so it should work right?

 

[tuck]

okay how about the new style vet wheels? i now you can run them on an s10 with spacers on the front and the s10 and malibu are the same bolt pattern so it should work right?

G bodies and s10s share the whole front suspension, I think you need a 1.25" or 1.5" spacer in the front to run vette wheels. also, for the most patr all vette wheels since the c4 have the same high *ss backspacing.

 

[cammed up v6]

okay thanks i was just curios

 

[DreamSpeedPerf.]

i have c5 stocks on my cutlass with 2" spacers up front and 3" in the back, and im not too worried about the spacers around here i see caprices and impalas with 600hp big blocks doing donuts on 24" and up wheels and havent seen one break yet.