Camaro heritage rims on 72

[jsera]

Is there any reason these wouldnt work with 1.5 inch 5x5 to 5x4.75 adapters?

[jsera]

Anyone?

[Custom 68]

I think you will find there are a lot of the folks around here don't like running adapters or even spacers. They are cool wheels tho.

[69SCSS]

As long as you get the right adapters I don't see why they wouldn't work fine. Probably something like 1" in the front and 1.5-2" in the back to make them sit right. Don't know what the backspacing is on those, guessing 5.25-5.5".

[95Econobox]

Nothing wrong with running an adapter or spacer but i would be terrified of anything around the 1" or greater range. Ive got a couple VW's and while they are different beasts altogether, most folks start having wheel bearing issues when you get that large of a spacer in the mix.

Just my two cents. Wheels would look amazing on a C-10 though.

[jjzepplin]

Putting around town spacers are OK. Burnouts and high performance driving NO WAY on spacers. Daily driver NO WAY. Just not reliable.
Change that to NO spacers ever.

[95Econobox]

Originally Posted by jjzepplin

Putting around town spacers are OK. Burnouts and high performance driving NO WAY on spacers. Daily driver NO WAY. Just not reliable.
Change that to NO spacers ever.

Ive got 15mm adapters up front and 25mm out back on my Passat. 2-3 years of daily driving (at least 30k miles) on them with Zero issues. I know my one personal experience doesn't really say too much but again ive never really heard of anything horrible happening to anyone because of it.

That said, i totally agree if it was something that was putting down power, or tracked hard i cant say i would do that. Although its not uncommon to see folks doing it to autocross cars.

I think the main thing is how big are we talking. 1/8th inch isn't really moving that second "shear plane" away from the root of the stud enough to really cause undue stress IMO. Now if you are talking 1-2" then yes you are going to have issues and that's borderline deadly, again, IMO.

Another thing to consider is what type of spacer or adapter are we talking about. My adapters for the VW are 5x100 to 5x120, so since i have wheel studs and not lug nuts, my adapters get bolted to the hub with locktite and grade 8 bolts and the adapter has studs on it in the 5x120 pattern. i feel that this is a much better setup than the old school spacers.

If you have ever seen any honda or VW running around with Porsche, BMW or Merc wheels on it they are using an adapter or spacer. most of those cars are driven with no issues but to be fair most are not putting 600 ft/lbs through them lol.

[bs46488]

I think some of the purist will tell you that those modern Camaro rims aren't 5x4.75, they are the metric version. So if you do decide to purchase spacers, make sure you are converting to the right size.