Grant,
I am pretty sure stock backspacing is +52mm. I can tell you from
personal experience that you will not be able to fit any larger rim on
your car unless it has a +45mm backspacing or more. I have a 90 Legacy.
I searched for over a year to find wheels that fit on this car and still
looked good. My stock tire size is 175/70 r14. I was originally going
to put on 195/50 r15, that rubbed like a mother, then tried 205/50 r15.
Still rubbed, and I tried those tires on two different rims, one with
+35mm backspacing, the other had +38mm backspacing.
Well anyway, after about a year of looking here and there, a buddy at a
speed shop told me he had a friend who worked for discount tire. He
ended up finding me a set of Japanese racing wheels. They had a +45mm
backspacing and were 16". So I went with the tire size 205/45 r16.
This tire gave me the closest overall tire diameter to the original.
Well after all that and finally finding wheels, which at the time were
about double what a "normal" painted set of 16" wheels cost, they still
rubbed a little. I brought my car to the buddy I have in a speed shop.
He pulled back the trim in the rear fender, and shaved that lip down,
tapered it very nicely, and then applied a new piece of trim. It
WORKED!! It looks fine, it doesn't have cheesy looking flares on it to
interrupt the lines of the car.
Here are the links to the pics in the photo section.
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/bc ... =/&.src=gr
&.dnm=Josh%27s+Fender+Trim+1.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.ya
hoo.com/group/bc-bflegacyworks/lst%3f%26.dir=/%26.src=gr%26.view=t
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/bc ... =/&.dnm=Jo
sh%27s+Fender+Trim+2.jpg&.src=gr&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/
group/bc-bflegacyworks/vwp%3f.dir=/%26.dnm=Josh%2527s%2bFender%2bTrim%2b
1.jpg%26.src=gr
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/bc ... =/&.dnm=Jo
sh%27s+Fender+Trim+3.jpg&.src=gr&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/
group/bc-bflegacyworks/vwp%3f.dir=/%26.dnm=Josh%2527s%2bFender%2bTrim%2b
2.jpg%26.src=gr
You can also check out more pics of my car on my site
www.personal.psu.edu/jcc189/subaru/subaru.html
Josh
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"Life, an ever-changing melody
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-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Hughes [mailto:
grantsubaru@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 1:56 AM
To:
BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] Mods to 92 Legacy?
Sambo,
Thanks for your input. I think the stock offsett is
either 52 or 54 I can't remember but your pretty
close. I haven't figured out what I want to do about
it. I am either going to downgrade to a lower profile
tire or different wheels. One preson suggested to
phsically flatten the fender so it is straight and not
an L but I don't particularily like that idea. I was
thinking about looking into any fender flares but I
don't know if those would look good. As for the
exhaust I have pretty much tossed that idea unless I
were to add a turbo to my car. It seems pointless
since it is expensive and most likely won't help at
all.
Grant
--- Samuel Barrett <
LEVATHIAN@sprintmail.com> wrote:
> Grant,
>
> Unless you have a turbo, forget about doing anything
> to the stock exhaust -
> waste of $$ until you have a turbo, performance wise
> that is... If you like
> making noise with it and you want a louder, lower
> note, and "everyone else
> at school has them" then go ahead. Whatever floats
> your boat. But people in
> the know will make fun of you everytime we see you
> on the road with it.
>
> On the wheels, step one: do a search on this forum
> for "offset". Then get a
> cup of java and get comfortable, lots to read.
> Basically if you have
> anything less than a +48 offset (I believe +52 is
> stock - but check me) then
> you're in for some rubbing.
>
> Pulley upgrade is reccomended by several on this
> list. Make sure you tighten
> the bolt to 100Kn when you do it. Anything lower and
> you risk the life of
> the engine. Do a search for more info.
>
> 01 = my two bits
>
> -Sambo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
grantsubaru@yahoo.com
> [mailto:
grantsubaru@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 101 PM
> To:
BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] Mods to 92 Legacy?
>
>
> I've been trying to improve performance on my 1992
> Legacy L and was
> wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I bought a
> KN filter last
> week and it has helped a bit. I am thinking about
> looking into a
> performance exhaust system and possible replacing
> the stock pulley
> sytem with a performance set. Any suggestions or
> stories would be
> appreciated.
>
> Grant
>
grantsubaru@yahoo.com
>
> Oh yeah. I bought some custom wheels for my Legacy
> and the offset on
> the wheels is signicantly lower than stock and now
> whenever I hit any
> bumps or dips significantly my wheel well hits the
> tire. Has anyone
> else experienced this problem. I am either going to
> trade out the
> rims or get lower profile tires. I haven't decided
> but am open to
> any other suggestions.
>
>
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