18inch wheels on 4g

spudep91 · Post by **spudep91** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 12:11 am

Anyone run 18inch wheels on theres and is clearance ok. I have a 4g track lude and run 16s. If i go upto 18s i can get cheap track tyers for 18inch? Thanks in advance

Post by **JEBB4** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:28 am

If your gunna go 18" chances are they will be around 8" wide, from seeing others on here 8" requires the right offset to fit in the arches without flares I'm pretty sure anything over 8" will definitely need something doing to be road legal anyway but other than this 18" wheels seem a little large and will affect acceleration unless you use a proper low profile tyre...

Larger wheels like that are usually used on the more high powered cars where the need for tire width and grip overcomes the lag you get with larger diameter rims...
Saying that you may have 500bhp so could be good

That's my understanding of it anyway..

laner84 · Post by **laner84** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 8:20 am

I tried 18inch et34 8j wide and they scrubbed on the outside and the clearance on lock was reduced too, so that particular setup I wouldn't use I dropped my back to 17s and no problem hope this helps

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 8:49 am

Regardless of whether 18's will fit or not, you're better off with 16's on track or 17's if you have big brakes.

Although lack of comfort isn't an issue on track 18's would require you to run such a low profile tyre you wouldn't want to run a low pressure in them. So you'll throw the handling and probably end up bouncing out the corners.

spudep91 · Post by **spudep91** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:39 am

thanks for your input lads. yea woundent need to be road legal as gets trailered to track so could mess with arches its just the price differnce in getting 16/17 inch tyres to 18 inch is unreal lol. also wish see was 500 ponys lol. only about 190 bhp