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kwilford · 09-09-2005

That's right Thom. I meant to say that the Honda, being FWD, usually has wheels of about ET38 (or at least my old '88 Prelude with 14X6 wheels were that offset) and as much as ET45. Interestingly, those old Prelude wheels did fit my GT (six plus 1 is seven, half is 3 1/2, plus 38 mm or 1 1/2) with a 5 inch backspace. Or at least I didn't detect any interference. But since the wheel centre was inboard of the stock wheel centre-line, the handling left a bit to be desired. Not too bad, just not good enough to justify the swap, as they just weren't very attractive wheels.

A common wheel (well, not THAT common) that fits is for the earlier BMW 3 series (the E21, 320i from '77 to '83) or the older BMW 2002. They are usually ET20 or 24, but seldom come bigger than 14 inch (unless they are aftermarket wheels). Later 3 series (the E30, the older 323 and 325, with the 4X100 bolt pattern) might also work (I bought a set last month) but check the offset.

And of course you can use spacers, although that comes with it's own issues (have a look around and search this Forum for "spacers").

And as Thom mentioned, you can get your hubs re-drilled to a different bolt pattern, although I don't know what is involved in that.

HTH

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kwilford Über OpelGT.com Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 3,773 Classified Rating: 0% (0)	That's right Thom. I meant to say that the Honda, being FWD, usually has wheels of about ET38 (or at least my old '88 Prelude with 14X6 wheels were that offset) and as much as ET45. Interestingly, those old Prelude wheels did fit my GT (six plus 1 is seven, half is 3 1/2, plus 38 mm or 1 1/2) with a 5 inch backspace. Or at least I didn't detect any interference. But since the wheel centre was inboard of the stock wheel centre-line, the handling left a bit to be desired. Not too bad, just not good enough to justify the swap, as they just weren't very attractive wheels. A common wheel (well, not THAT common) that fits is for the earlier BMW 3 series (the E21, 320i from '77 to '83) or the older BMW 2002. They are usually ET20 or 24, but seldom come bigger than 14 inch (unless they are aftermarket wheels). Later 3 series (the E30, the older 323 and 325, with the 4X100 bolt pattern) might also work (I bought a set last month) but check the offset. And of course you can use spacers, although that comes with it's own issues (have a look around and search this Forum for "spacers"). And as Thom mentioned, you can get your hubs re-drilled to a different bolt pattern, although I don't know what is involved in that. HTH