Tire and rim question

I have a CMC flared and would like to fill the fender area. What is the widest rim that you guys have put on to fill the fender space. Looking at some alloys or something like that. It has chrome stock rims with hubcaps right now. I don't want it to look stupid but a good looking deep dish rim. Has 4 lug drum brakes so may also have to put adaptors on. Any suggestions?

With drums you can go to 8 x 15's with 225 50 rears and 205 50 fronts.
8 x 17" wheels will fit if shod with 215 45 17 tires.

remember, the bigger the tire the heaver it is, so it takes more torque to turn it. bill

The 225 50 15's and the 215 45 17's are about the same over demension.

Once you get them on and if you decide that you need spacers, the best place I've found for billet spacers is Pelican Parts.

Gordon's got the wheel dimension thing licked.
Between Alan's advice and Gordon's taste in bling, I can't see why there aren' more widebodies with Fuchs.
Sorry I don't have a more descriptive picture.

That's Pearl in one of her more levitated moments......When her Mach-V Flux Capacitor was really cookin'......

IMHO.....A too-deep-dished Fuchs (or almost any other wheel) might begin to look a little, ahhhhh, CMC-ish. By that I mean that having wheels that are really dished deep on a Speedster begin to look less Porsche-like and more dune buggy like. This can be compensated for by running all-chrome wheels to avoid the dark, tunnel-like look of deeply dished wheels. Again, this is my opinion and not necessarily the common opinion on here.

That said, I'm running 7" wide rims on Pearl and going to 8" wide on Scarlet, the new build (Kathy named her), but I don't yet know what the dish dimensions are so don't yet know what (or if) I'll need for spacers.

I don't have a patent on Fuchs wheels on here, either. Several other cars are running them (Dale Bates, if you want a Black car example) but not necessarily as low as Pearl.

That brings up another problem.....If you run wide and get close to the fender inner lips you quickly run out of vertical clearance to the underside of the body, above the outer edge of the tires. This can be compensated for with coil-overs on the shocks (if you want to remain down in the weeds) but there aren't too many tricks to use there.

I'm also a BIG proponent of polished spokes and color-matched backgrounds - I just think they look really cool. Check the difference between all-black and polished spokes in the pictures below. Next change will probably be to change the backgrounds to pearl white. She's also sitting about 3/4" lower than the pic on the right, now, and I think she's sitting just about right.

What do you folks think??

The polished spokes with the black background make for a good visual, not sure the pearl white would work, maybe try photo shop first ?
Hey WTH do I know, I'm a bit shade color blind anyway....

The polished spokes look really good. Not sure about changing them to pearl white though. You'll lose that nice contrast they have now. But, you can't really know how good it'll look until you see it in person.