Wheels

[Born Lucky]

I am looking at the 5 Gen Camaro Wheels and love them. The black steelies.
Can I fit them on a 5x5 bolt pattern?

[gixxer711]

You would have to use thick adapters. New Camaros have a 5x120 bolt pattern.
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[Born Lucky]

Yeah that is what I thought.
And adaptors are not a good idea!

[kieth]

Originally Posted by Born Lucky

I am looking at the 5 Gen Camaro Wheels and love them. The black steelies.
Can I fit them on a 5x5 bolt pattern?

If you already have a 5 x 5 lug pattern with front discs on your truck you can remove the stock studs and have the 5 x 4-3/4 pattern drilled between your 5 x 5 lugs, and they will work. (this is what we did to my truck because of a good deal we got on a set of 17" cragars) just add the proper studs and away you go. The only thing I would check is the amount of back spacingthat those steelies have.....you might need spacers.......Kieth

[theastronaut]

You could have the rims reversed to fix the backspacing issue. I've seen it done on a S-10 and they look so much better with a little more lip on the rim sticking out.

[gixxer711]

Will need alot of spacer, as new Camaros have real high offsets, like FWD cars. Should be about a 5.75" BS.

[theastronaut]

How to cut the centers out to change the offset. This guy didn't reverse the wheels, but that could be done if you needed even less backspacing than this.

http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f14/ho...camaro-500744/

[joedoh]

I'm with theastronaut. I see these take offs on the local craigslist all the time for 4-500 bucks, brand new with tires, and would reverse them just like he said. they look good with the offset changed and would be amazing reversed.

[theastronaut]

It's not difficult to reverse the rims either. I just did a pair of 4" VW smoothies into reversed 5.5" Porsche 911 rims. Just set the backspacing, bolt the wheels up, and check for runout with a dial indicator. Was able to get these down to .045-.055". Then tack the centers in place and have someone who knows what they're doing weld them up.




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