<VV> Corvair Wheel Backspacing

[UltraMonzaWest@aol.com]

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.