12:05 Garage- ’70 Duster build

DionR said
Haven't thought much about widening a wheel, probably not cost effective to buy wheels with the plan to get them widened. But an interesting idea to mull over.

Looks like an 18x8 with a +22mm offset turns into an 18x9 with about a +35mm offset if it is widened 1" in the back. But if it's much more than $150 a wheel, hard to see it making more sense than just buying one with the right offset.

Not knocking your idea of widening your wheels, just thinking out loud on the idea of using it as an avenue to get where I might want to go. You already have the wheels and they don't make ones in the offset you would need so it makes sense to look down that road.

It took forever for me to find an "off the shelf" wheel that I liked and had the sizes and backspacing that would work. Unfortunately this made me use an 8" wheel for the front instead of the 9". Having the fronts widened isn't ideal. I believe the cost is somewhere around $200/ea. Not cheap, but cheaper than buying 4 new wheels. There are some tuner style wheels out there that would have worked, but they didn't provide the look I was going for. XXR had a wheel I liked, but it has a double drilled bolt pattern. I don't care for that. 3030 Autosport has some decent looking wheels that were around $600-750 when they first came out. This is a good price for a forged wheel with custom backspacing. I just looked and their pricing has gone up. I'd imagine they will get to Forgeline prices once they become more popular.