Any love for 17-18" wheels?

[46addict]

Are they any vendors that sell 17"-18" wheels for S197s and do not charge a ton, as in less than $250 per wheel?

I'm looking for 10th Anniversary SVT wheels in 9.5-10" width to be exact. But it seems the major outlets only offer wheels in 19"-20" for this chassis, and the smaller sizes are only offered in SN95 offsets.
I am trying to get away from larger wheels to save money on tires and to go for the small wheel & fat sidewall look. Do I need to widen my search and branch out from Mustang wheel/parts vendors?

 

[Norm Peterson]

The 2007 - 2009 GT500 wheels seem to be still available. 18 x 9.5 x +45, still listed at around $210 at Tire Rack as of a couple of days ago. I don't know of much else until you get to Forgestars or Enkeis at $350 or so. But at least with Enkeis or Forgestars there are wider widths than 10".


Norm

 

[AndrewNagle]

M-1007-S1895B1

18 x 9.5 wheel with

45mm offset

7.125 backspacing


http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/stor...&submodel=&engine=&Nrpp=&No=&persistYmm=false

 

[RED09GT]

Options definitely are limited. I went through this same thing when picking wheels, it seems like you have $150 cheap replicas or $350+ options, not much in the middle ground.

The manual search options of most of the websites are not very good either. It seems like they are all programmed to say that you can't put wider than a 9" wheel on the front of these cars.

 

[tjm73]

Rockauto is selling reconditioned factory wheels for cheap.

 

[stevbd]

There are lots of cheaper 18" wheels on the usual sites, American Muscle, etc. As mentioned, the search function often says the wider wheels are rear fitment only but they often will in fact work on the front too as a square setup. As a starting point reference, the following sizes will fit square, with the wheel flush with the fenders and no spacers: 18x10 with 43 mm offset, and 18x9.5 with 35mm offset. Higher offset will bring the wheel inward, lower will create poke.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Places like AM (and for that matter even Tire Rack) have to be a little extra 'conservative' for front fitments, else they'd be leaving themselves on the hook for dealing with returns or exchanges (and the bad publicity) every time somebody tried something that was too close for their car.


Norm

 

[46addict]

Yeah I'm shooting for a square setup for handling and the ability to rotate tires. I found the 10th Ann SVT wheels on Rockauto but they are 26mm offset which is too low. The search continues.

 

[Pentalab]

There are lots of cheaper 18" wheels on the usual sites, American Muscle, etc. As mentioned, the search function often says the wider wheels are rear fitment only but they often will in fact work on the front too as a square setup. As a starting point reference, the following sizes will fit square, with the wheel flush with the fenders and no spacers: 18x10 with 43 mm offset, and 18x9.5 with 35mm offset. Higher offset will bring the wheel inward, lower will create poke.

18 x 10 with a 45mm offset will fit the front of my 2010 GT with oem 12.4" brakes, provided 275-40-18 tires are used. If 285-40-18 tires used, then a small 3mm spacer is required..which of course reduces the effective 45mm offset down to 42 mm.

 

[Gabe]

I'm running 2010 GT500 convertible 18x9.5 wheels (45mm offset I believe), with front 285/40/18's and rear 305/40/18's.
Perfect front fit, and because the Nitto 555R's run a bit narrow, a great rear fitment too.
Love the look.

 

[46addict]

18 x 10 with a 45mm offset will fit the front of my 2010 GT with oem 12.4" brakes, provided 275-40-18 tires are used. If 285-40-18 tires used, then a small 3mm spacer is required..which of course reduces the effective 45mm offset down to 42 mm.

With the 285s what area needed the clearance? Was it the struts that hit first?

 

[mrfatride]

the bolt for the sway bar end link is super long and needs to be trimmed down otherwise it will contact the tire assuming its the same as my 2013 GT. I run 18x10 SVE Drifts square on my car.

 

[CammedS197]

What style are you looking for? I have 18" gt4's. There's the fr500 style, the AMR by american muscle or the SVE by Late model restoration, 2010 gt500 style at AM, 13-14 gt500 style at AM as well as the saleen style and bullitt styles. All of these are less than $200 a piece. I am creating a 7 spoke like the gt350r wheel but 18". If they were 18" then I'd be riding on those already. But I do want come concave to the rears. May buy a set of SVE's rtr style for just another set to have for the hell of it.

https://www.americanmuscle.com/2005wheels.html

 

[CammedS197]

Here's the version with smooth edges and straight spokes



View attachment 66569

 

[CammedS197]

And another one like above but with curved spokes. Still in works. All are 18" btw

 

[CammedS197]

Here's a deep dish version.

 

[46addict]

Cammed, I was looking for 10th Ann SVT wheels like this one. I'm giving up on this idea because all I see are SN95 offsets like I mentioned before and the S197 wheels only go to 9" width.

But that curved spoke 350 style wheel looks good too. I think I've made my decision to go with ESR SR08s (Work Emotion knockoffs).

 

[CammedS197]

Cammed, I was looking for 10th Ann SVT wheels like this one. I'm giving up on this idea because all I see are SN95 offsets like I mentioned before and the S197 wheels only go to 9" width.

But that curved spoke 350 style wheel looks good too. I think I've made my decision to go with ESR SR08s (Work Emotion knockoffs).

I would love a set of those 10th ann wheels for an s197. My pick was between fr500, gt4's, and SVE wheels and barely see any s197's with the gt4's so I got those. But I really like that other pair you posted up! Thanks. No idea when I'll be able to get any of these machined for my car. But the curved 350r style will be the first I do.

 

[Pentalab]

With the 285s what area needed the clearance? Was it the struts that hit first?

On my 2010 auto, it was the struts that would hit 1st. The bolt for the sway bar end link was a non issue. I used HR brand, hubcentric 3mm spacers....problem solved. I tested with front wheels pointed straight ahead, then fully CW, then fully CCW. The 3mm HR hubcentric spacers fit like a glove, zero slop, precision machined, both for the 5 studs and also the big hole in the middle.

And bucket loads of thread left too, in fact, more excess thread on the front WITH the 3mm spacers installed vs the rears, WITHOUT any spacers. Oem fronts wheel studs are slightly longer than oem rear wheel studs.

 

[ApexRaceParts]

We just put up a sale on our EC-7 18x9.5" ET35 wheel, you can see it on our site here: https://www.apexraceparts.com/shop-...tang/18x9-5-et35-apex-ec-7-mustang-wheel.html

This deal won't last long and is quite a discount from list price, making it an incredible deal when you consider all of the benefits it has compared to others at the price point.