Ok all you lot out there with wheels on the cars....

What kind of clearance have you got between the rear wheels and the chassis?

Obviously the wheels can't be ultra close because of suspension movements and I can design any clearance I need in... I'm asking out of interest as much as anything...

For those that are interested I've done some rough measurements on the Beemer and strange as it might sound if I use a normal 4" wider chassis there will be about 1/2" clearance either side only.

Not a lot for a 5 series...

22mm on each side on my +4 car mate.

Cheers

Chris

(Cortina Axle)

Cheers matey.

Anyone else? Peeps with irs, de dion?

Rich.

I dunno, hippy, if you have a 528, your track is same as mine at 57.6".

57.6 - 9 (2 halves of a tire) - 46 = 2.6

2.6/2 = 1.3

What's the difference? The tire? Wrong Beemer?

Pete

1986 M535i... I measured the distance from inside of tyre to inside of tyre and it came out at 122cm... I was slightly wrong above, that's about 48" so I have approx 1" either side...

I would guess there's a bit of track or offset difference.... How old is the 528?

Oh, I googled to get the 528 track, having misidentified your car. The 535i's even better at 57.9"!

I'm using the RX-7, the tender beauty pictured at left

Swap your wheels for our knackered old ones?

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Swap your wheels for our knackered old ones?

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Bugger.

Looks like another outlay for decent wheels then.

Worth a try...