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OK, so a while ago I bought an 86 944 for the interior, broke the rest of it, various bits on eBay and so on. But there's one thing (or four) that I've kept hold of at the moment, and that's the wheels. They are 17" ones, 5-spoke Cup 1 Alloys (Italian copies), and they are 7.5J on the front and 9J on the rear. I think they are ET15 and ET23. They have a good set of tyres on them too.
I really like the look of them, and jacked my 944 up (with 15" Cookie cutters, body colour-coded), and placed them on. They made the car look much better, IMO.
But then I noticed a problem - the wheel studs are way too long to be able to bolt them up (I wanted to check clearances) - and a quick check confirmed it; the 86 car had much shorter studs. So I had no way of checking if they would fit and so on. I've heard about rear arms having different offsets, etc., but not found anything exact relating this to wheel size and offset.
I really like the way they made the car look (it's dark metallic green and the silver wheels and five spoke design really lifted it visually), and was thinking I have three options:
1) Change the studs over and see if they fit OK (or ask someone who knows better).
2) Sell the wheels and buy something that will fit my car without modification (or swap)
3) Forget it, leave the car as it is (I wouldn't sell the original wheels as I think they should go with the car when I do sell it).
I'd appreciate wisdom/opinions/offers of purchase/ideas for option 2.
Darren
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