Cascade Crew

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: My trip to spokane today

Yea, so i ordered some wheels from discount tire.. i'm in wounderful kennewick washington which is about 2-3 hours from spokane, i ordered the wheels about 3-5 weeks ago and finally today i got the chance to go get them, i asked them over and over "you have the 15mm offset one's right?" didn't want to waste a trip.. so i get there.. i'm excited as can be and already had a spot picked out to take some pics.. and they brought them out after we paid and i looked at the box and sure enough just as i feared +56mm offset.. so i basically wasted a trip up there.. but not all was lost.. they reordered them and since there was an error, they are sending them to my front door sometime next week..

pathology knight · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject:

at least they're sending them to you.

got any pics of what you're expecting?

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:44 am Post subject:

yea i'm glad their at least doing that,just wish when i asked them if they had the 15mm one's they would of looked at the box..

and al was kind enough to point me in the direction where he got his z06's

Al Hasse · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject:

They should look very similar to these, if not identical. Should look rally good on a black car.

Now you're going to have to clean up those drums and calipers because they will be very visible Wink

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject:

yea, i'm torn on what color to paint the drum cover and the calliper i want to put silver herritage stripes on sometime down the road, but red always looks good.. then for some reason i like blue too lol anyone wanna help narrow that down?

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

Ok, so they lied to me today, lack of communitation on their part exposed they lied when they said they ordered them on friday when really they waited till this morning to put in the order.. and they tried saying that my 92 has a +56mm offset.. but from what every else has told me it's a low offset (0-15mm)

QwkTrip · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:45 am Post subject:

Negative or positive offset? 15mm is only 0.6 inches. I always like to talk in terms of backspacing. That way there is no confusion.

On an 8 inch rim,

Negative offset --> 3.2 inch backspacing
Positive offset --> 4.6 inch backspacing

I have a little over 5 inch backspacing on my 9 inch rim. Works on the front. Wish I had about 5.25 or 5.5 inch backspacing in the rear with disk brakes.

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject:

Ok so i'm sure this is going to sound like a dumb question, but how do you tell what the backspacing is on a wheel... the wheels are 17 x 8 1/2 with a positive 15mm offset..

Al Hasse · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject:

Not so dumb at all. Took me a while to figure it out too. Zero offset would have the mounting surface on the center line, making the backspace 4.25". Add 15mm (.59") to that since the offset is +15mm, or set toward the street (positive offset). Offset is measured in millimeters from the centerline, and measured from the inside edge (where the bead seals), to the offset is your backspace in inches. Your backspace for that wheel is 4.84 inches.

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:22 am Post subject:

that's awesome thank's al