<VV> Corvair Wheel Backspacing

[LABRANCHE, RICHARD C]

Try this web link for information on tires and backspacing.'

http://autoxer.skiblack.com/tires.html


Richard '64 Monza coupe
'66 140 coupe



-----Original Message-----
From: UltraMonzaWest@aol.com [mailto:UltraMonzaWest@aol.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 7:29 PM
To: virtualvairs@corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Corvair Wheel Backspacing

In a message dated 1/30/2005 3:37:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
Poppsmail@cs.com writes:

> I am hoping someone can help me with this one...  I would like to move up 
> to 
> a 14" rim for my 65 Monza Convertible but honestly don't understand the 
> whole 
> backspace thing.  I do know the car will "travel" if I don't get the 
> backspace 
> correct.
> 
> I am not even sure about the width... A few of the wheels I like are 14 x
6
> 
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Backspacing is the distance from the  innermost lip of the rim [measured
with 
a straightedge laid across the rim...over the center hole of the wheel]  and

the BACKSIDE of the wheel center mounting surface [use the metal between 2 
lug holes]


Hope this simplifies it.



Matt Nall / Patiomatt / WCUH / Chairman V V
69 Monza Cpe., 66 Monza vert, 65 Crown v8 Cpe.
Somewhere between Reno, NV and Coos Bay, Or.
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