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10-13-2013, 10:29 PM
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Location: Temple City
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Lug conversion
I am building my truck with a engine I have, but it needs a cam change with a re-gasket. So I am thinking of doing up the suspension to be a bit more fitting to the new engine. Such as dropping it, and fitting 20's. The engine will be close to 425hp for reference.
I have a C20 with obviously 8 lugs, and my thoughts need to convert it to roughly 5x4.75 to fit the rims I am looking at. The likely rims are BMW 7 Series 20's as they are cheap in my area. Can I fill, and drill the rotors for 5x4.75 that way I can keep the C20's factory big brakes. The truck that got me thinking on this trip. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=591578&page=3 |
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10-13-2013, 10:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Fayetteville Arkansas
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Re: Lug conversion
Nope, you may be able to find some spacers though.
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10-13-2013, 10:54 PM
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Location: North Carolina
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Re: Lug conversion
You would be better off converting to factory 5x5 and getting some nice aftermarket wheels. You will have a ton of money in having 100% custom wheel adapters made and then still have issues with backspacing. The BMW uses a 5x120 which is 5x4.72 wheel studs must be exact if its only 1 mm off when you torque the nuts it bends the studs and breaks them off. Had a customer with wrong lug pattern wheels couldn't figure why he kept having to replace studs and it was 1mm off on the lug pattern
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