Any experience with wheel adapters? Need help with sizing...

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Asking for advice from those that have used wheel adapters

I know there's a lot of negative thoughts surrounding the use of wheel adapters, but I'm going to do it... My car is not a daily driver and I want something different than what the SBP options are...

I'm currently running SBP 15x7 Cragars w/ 4.125 backspacing, if I add wheel adapters that are 1" thick, then I would need to run 5.125 backspacing on another 15x7 wheel to achieve the same clearance between the tire and the fender, right?

what would be the equivalent backspacing on a 15x8 wheel? around 5.5?
 
Im running the 1'' wheel adapters on the back of mine with the factory style 15x7 steel rallye wheels. i have no issues of course im running a 8 3/4 rear
 
I had these on my Sonoma and Jimmy to get Corvette rims to fit. No
issues at all.
 

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tell you what go ahead and use them. get the billet ones. people with jeeps have been useing them for year. 1 to make the track width wider and 2 to adapt different wheel bolt patterns
 
I run a set of 1.5" adapter spacers on my duster w/ a 17x8 4.5BS. fixes the annoying rear wheel inset that was factory and looked terrible.
 
I run 1" adapters to mount 17x8 bullit wheels to my sbp swinger. I haven't had any issues with my 340 4.10 gears its a high 12 second car. Like a few others have said the off-road guys run run adapters and spacers all the time with high gears and 35" plus tires with a lot more stress and no issues.
 
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