No luck needed, but thanks.

 

They are really beautiful wheels, I'm just hoping you don't end up rolling on them. Those tires do seem to be a couple inches too narrow. IMHO.

BUT, if they work, they work!

 

Looks good Stretch is not really for me but looks good.

 

Oh, I didn't realize they were 9.5's. I thought I read somewhere that they were 7.5's. The car needs to be spotless to sport those wheels.

 

They technically are a couple inches too narrow, but as you can see in the pictures, it would be impossible to fit that wheel in there with a square tire.

Yeah, it's love/hate thing, but I think once it's all put together, people will like.

Yeah, they're 17x8.5 in the front and the rears are 17x9.5.


I wouldn't be doing this if it hasn't been done before. In case no one has seen this, go to stanceworks.com. You will see that what I'm doing is actually pretty mild and has all been done before....for the last 30 or so years to be exact over in Europe. It's nothing new...just new for Volvo.

 

These are for sale for those interested:



RSI 139.5 H Beam rods. Will fit any white blocks. $325 shipped.

 

That isn't dirty. Here's dirty. The XC70 somewhere in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

 

Gilber33,
Love the look of your new wheels, saw the clip on the guy doing the stretch thing, like you said that is all about style. Coming from racing and autox, I look for my tires to work for me in the corners, etc. and with them way narrower than the rims, the tires can't work like they are made to.
I sometimes like the slam thing using air bags, but I really drive my cars, sometimes fast like I stole them, especially in the mountains as I love fast corners.
I do love your coilover idea, and I do love coilovers as they are a geat way to weight balance your car. Get yourself a set of four corner scales, it is amazing what you can do to the behavior of the car when you alter the weight balance, not from front to rear but from corner to corner.
Ray

 

Yes....I know. These aren't my only set of wheels.

Anyways,

Boom.

Fronts will still come down about a half inch.

 

Those wheels are to sweet. Thanks for the pics.

Do you have a spare hood or is that one it?

 

Thanks for the compliment.

And it was a spare hood. I painted it for a meet, but then I sold the original hood at the meet to someone who needed it more than I did. Haha. So now this is one is it. lol

 

And tragedy struck:



Fronts are going in on Friday to get the tires taken off and then I'm going to take the wheels apart and reseal and put back together.

I just want to drive it so bad and now it's down for another week. Ugh. The price you gotta pay to roll hard.

 

Looks good with those wheels!

 

Kiss4aFrog (green) Wheel envy <--------------

If I had those wheels I'd have wider tires and make the car fit the tire !!
They do look good as is on yours though.
Well, except for that hissing

 

Having a tire fit those wheels square would require both deep pockets for tires since the rears are 9.5" wide and the fronts are 8.5" wide and custom fender work because you would not be able to get the front wheels to sit any further in than they are right now, which means you can't have the rears sit any further in otherwise it would look goofy.

lol

 

I understand what you are saying but I managed to fit 245/50 on stock 16's under my wife's '95 Thunderbird Supercoupe and I just love overfilled wheel wells. The hard part was finding a transmission drive gear that came close to giving me a somewhat accurate speedo. Ended up using one out of a Mustang cobra. Dropping the OD of the tire was similar to lowering the rear end gearing. It blitzes off the line but at a bit over 90 mph it does start to run out of acceleration. It will still go well past 120 but how often are you really up there?

Those BBS's are just too good looking not to have really fat black tires that rub at full lock. I would love to have someone modify my fenders and quarters to clear some bigger tires. If I end up with the tune and 19T I can use the rubber to my advantage and my end up doing so. Hope I can find as nice a set of wheels as yours.

 

Well, yeah, it's easy to fit big *** tires when you have 1' of fender clearance and the wheels are sunk into the wheel well. lol.

And I disagree, I think these wheels are too nice to have big tires hiding them.

These wheels were not found like they are now, this is about 3 months of restoration. Best bet is to find a set that needs paint and the lips refinished that you should be able to pick up for around $600-800, otherwise a set in this condition will run you about $2k.



Once they're back on the car and the front coilovers adjusted I'll get some better pictures, hopefully Easter weekend.

 

I know where a set of gold ones are that can be had for about $400 to $500. 17x8's, sitting under a V70 GLT with a bad head gasket.

 

Like sitting outside?

 

Yes, bolted to the car. They are gold. I tried to talk my daughter into buying them but I don't think she has the extra cash either.