harley9703

Got to love when they come out with options for our out dated platform.



They've been throwing around the idea since November, and saw there was enough interest so they have been brought to life and beginning production on them.

Looks like we'll be getting the available sizes in race 15", and street 17 and 18"

Test fit ment at JLP, a vendor that pushed to see this brought about.



Now we won't be held to bogart if you're needing a 15" flavor

crackerbear

Curious as to why they didn't come out with a street 16" ? How wide are they?

harley9703

It was intended more towards the lightning crowd, us HD owners just get the luck end of the deal they're there.

With that said L owners don't care about 16" rims, they were 17" stock and 15's are there for the lightness, amount of tires/drag tires, more sidewall wrinkle, and less rotational mass...

I guess that's the best guesstimation I can come up with.

And I don't care for the bigger rims, so i didnt look and pay as much attention to them, but the 15's are 10" wide.

jcavers

How are you fitting the 15s?

jprevat

iTrader: (1)

This is something I would like to look into. The correct backspacing and offset makes it possible.

harley9703

Grinding the caliper down, then just slip it on.

They're only going to offer one backspacing. I guess you
Could use spacers and set it off far enough that the caliper grinding wont be an issue.


They're probably going to be pretty pricy, just for the simple fact it's a limited class, and they can, but on the flip side, the tire options and prices of tires in comparison, could offset the cost in the first tire purchase.

jprevat

iTrader: (1)

Just out of curiosity how much would you have to take off of the top of the caliper?

harley9703

I haven't ever done it, and probably won't, I'm going 9" rear on the Harley so I do t plan on keeping the 5x135 soo with that said

Probably about 1/8" it's not much. I've heard to get aggressive or you'll be there all day. I've seen one instance where someone took too much off, but they took like half the caliper, lol I've also seen about 100 other trucks that have done it with no problems what so ever and a handful of those trucks are DD

ghostrider

Why go with the 9"? The stock 9.75 has been proven to reliable with plenty of power. 34 spline axles stock, I would do a true trac though

harley9703

I'm completely with you on that aspect, I've seen the stock rear hit 9's on a few trucks and several in the 700/800 club bringing it and the axle just says bring it. But in all reality I don't need a 3/4 ton rear axle under a truck that's going to weigh in a little over a mustang. My street weight now is 4,700 lbs and that's on my 20's and all seats and consoles. By this time next year I plan on my street weight being in the 4,300lb range.

To answer your question why? A 9" is 100lbs lighter than a 9.75. Also when I go 9" I'm doing 4-link and coilovers, that's another 150lbs ditching the leafs. Plus the aftermarkets crazy for a 9" and your rim options are tons better than 3 different 15" rims(5x135mm), 1 of those being race only haha