New Buick rallye wheels and tires are here

Got my new Circle Racing Buick rallye wheels and tires last night from Newstalgia unboxed last night. Fronts are 17" x 8" with 245/50/17 and rear are 18' x 11" with 295/40/18. Lets hope they fits

 

Those are sharp!

 

Those are going to look sweet!

 

Damn you should not have posted this!!! The front ones look supercool...
can you tell us a price range on those??
What is the tiresize on the smaller ones?

 

Holy cow, those are tasty!!!!

 

Nice and I thought I had my mind made up, no more changes on my 53. Not so sure now.


Bob H.

 

those are the first large diameter rally wheel that i have seen that i like. Looking forward to seeing the mounted on the car.

 

The circle racing wheels are Billet

 

Dang I want to see where all that meat is going!

 

Yes, yes, please do tell more and share some more pictures. I will be purchasing new wheels in the next year or so and have been having a devil of a time picking out something that looks a bit classier than your typical wheel. If the pricing is reasonable these look like they might make the short list.

 

Those wheels are really nice! A little pricey at almost $2700 for a set of 5 but, really nice looking wheels.

 

I for one want to see these on your car. They really look nice. I like that you can run the original center caps on them.

 

looks good. I do know one thing - u would not want to drive Windsor roads on 50 series tires1

 

X2, please share the info on the back spacing. Stock or custom?
Those are some really nice looking wheels.

 

Thanks for all the good complements

Backspacing I ended up with was 6.5" on the rear 18 x 11 and 4.75" on the front 17 x 8. I did alot of measuring and ciphering. Suspension is all stock (rear is 12 bolt but measures same width as 10 mounting to mounting face) and I plan on near stock ride heigth. I removed both front and rear springs and mounted known quantity tires and wheels beforehand. Using a floor jack, I moved frt and rr suspensipon throught the full range of motion to check for worst case clearances.

With this new combo, for the rear, with the b/s above, I get 7/16 clearance to the outer lip (which was trimmed to the trim screw holes) worst case (suspension almost completely compressed) and about 9/16" clearance to the frame (fwd of the axle). Tire section width was 12.25".

For the front, with the susp on the bump stops, I get about 1/2" clearance to the top inner fender bolt, and about 1" to the inner fender worst case (close to curb heigth). Tire s/w is about 10.25"

They are billet aluminum, although not as light as I thought they would be. They are special order and take 4-6 weeks to get (through Newstalgia although Summit also carries them).

I believe the center caps to be Mitch R's (Cirlce provided them)

I am changing to 1/4" longer wheel studs and using 1/4" extended length shank bulge acorn nuts. The wheel mounting flange is thicker. You prob could get away by not replacing the studs but they are cheap and the procedure is easy so I'll just do it for safety.

 

Fronts are $519, tires are 245/50/17 altough i went conservative on the tire and prob could get away with 255/45/17 or maybe evn 265/45/17.

i got them through Newstalgia as they had a package sale going on tires and wheels so I saved alittle over the bare cost listed above

 

WOW! Those are very nice!! Can't wait to see them on the car!

 

Damn nice looking wheel and tire combo.

 

These are not the best pics as i the car is under construction and I am still playing with it, plus the garage is packed lol. But this will give an idea...