Cost is a factor with this much gear, hence the spacers. I wanted pro-comp but couldn't get the 8069's with 3.75" BS anywhere (slated for another production run in about a month or three
, couldn't find available 5 on 5's in pro-comp steelies (4.25" BS), or in most any other cheap wheel with anything less than 5" BS.
The steelies that I've got coming were only $56.00 each, so ridiculously cheap. 5" BS. They're made by a company called Unique, which is an "un-branded" Cragar Soft-8 wheel as it's the company that produces them. Even with a $100 Spidertrax spacer set, the wheels are hundreds of dollars cheaper. Spidertrax spacers aren't a "passthrough" style spacer which can lead to stud breakage. The spacers have recesses that they lock onto the stock studs with (torqued and loctite), then have their own studs that the wheels mount onto.
That leave me with a 3.5" BS which falls closer to the 3.75" - 4.25"
IDEAL BS range for a lifted JK with 12" wide tires. Extra 1/4" gives me a little more with the 315/75R16's as they're closer to 12.5" wide. Now it can flex out without severe inner fender rubbing. And the flat tube fenders will prevent flare rubbing.
Took a
weeeee bit of research to come up with a setup to fit this thing....
If I could have afforded it i was looking at the poison custom wheels, but they don't make a 16". 15's won't clear the calipers. and don't really want to step up the weight with 17's. 2.5" lift plus 35's is also going to add stress to my D30 front end, and adding an extra 45 lb wheel to each side may be too much for them to handle. OMF was willing to make me 5 wheels for $1700 US,
and never got around to looking up the W-Evans after that.
OTHER solution was to use Spidertrax wheel adapters to change to a more common bolt pattern like 4.5 on 5, but then I'd still be adding a spacer so no point.
That in "short" form was my reasoning.
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