Will 17x9.5 and 17x11 wheels fit a 73 duster?
Thanks for all the info 72bluNblu,
You the man to talk to about big wheels on a mopar. Hope to have my car be half the car yours is. Yours is the twin to mine and has inspired me to want to do the fold down conversion like you did. (yours has way better paint though)
I was just super excited about the wheels and bought them the night before leaving town for 10 days. So will not be able to put them on and try them till I get home.
Do you think the rears will work with an a body length rear if I just raise it up some not looking to corner carve any way (Full Cast Iron 440 Car)
Flush to the outside of the 1/4 panel would be acceptable
Just want to get a ton of rubber under it with little to no extensive mods to the body.
If the front end up working I will make the rears fit.
I just don't want the front to be up as high as the rear and have a ton of fender to tire gap.
The tire gap in the rear in the pics is plenty fine by me and that is with a 275-60-15 in there so may be too much gap with the much shorter 315-35-17
Hey thanks for the kind words. Most days I don't even feel like I'm half done with mine. As far as the paint goes, it looks better in pictures than in person. ;) . And I bet if you buffed yours out it would look better than you think. All I did was wax mine and stand back 20' to take pictures. :D
The rears will work with an A body width rear and a 3" spring relocation and mini-tub. There's just no way you're going to get around cutting the wheel tubs with a 315, my 295's take up pretty much every available inch of the wheel tub that you can use without rubbing. In fact before I installed my rear sway bar I would get a minor rub on the top inner wheel well when going in and out of driveways. The rear sway bar reduced the body roll enough to keep that from happening. The 315's on those 17x11's will sit an extra 7/8" in from my 295's with an A-body width rear, and I've only got ~3/8" to my springs, which are even with the wheel tubs. You don't need much, but the only way to get an extra 7/8" more than I have is to relocate and mini-tub, since I already did the 1/2" spring offset.
The good news is with a A-body width rear and those tires, the outer face of the wheel will be pretty much at the same spot as mine. You'll probably need to trim the quarter lip back if you're lowered, but otherwise they'll clear. If you don't sit as low as me then you may not even have to do that.
The only other thing you could do would be to keep the rims, but switch out the tires. With a 285/40/17 you'd have a 26" tall tire, you could still use the rims, and with an A-body rear everything should fit with a 3/4" spacer like this one. I'd say run a 295/40/17, but I can't seem to find that size offered in anything other than race tires.
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