Is there anyone running porsche rims?
Which wheel have you fitted? size? & ET ?

I'm poss looking at the Victor Equipment Wheels

http://www.tsw.com/img/lemans_black_beauty_normal_white.jpg

'wheels' you mean.

Nope, I highly doubt the would fit/be the right stud/ET thingy. See the thread here about wheels that fit the coupe, avoid anything else as it will require spacers/wobbly bolts.

I know from my vw days you can get 4/100 to 5/130
I've already checked to see if you can get 4/98 to 5/130 which are avaliable.

With the porsche wheels being a high ofset, by the time you fit the hub adapter the et is brought down to what your car should basically run.

With the range of porsche wheels about finding a 7" or 8" shouldn't be to hard.

I'm not to technical sorry but if the wheels dont fit straight on then I wouldnt touch them.

There's a guy on the German forum who runs Porsche (style) wheels:

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You will need adapter plates and spacers of around 20mm to get these to fit.

spot on m8

eactly the pic i was after

*rage*

German wheels on a Italian car - IMO they don't quite work.

Just to add to my earlier post, I don't think running adapter plates and 20mm spacers would be particularly safe. Not that I know of any real problems of people running them (in other words, I know no one over here who does) but it's so far from the original design that it's an unknown.

If you've got your heart set on a 5 stud design then best go for a 5 stud hub conversion like JohnS has. Of course then ideally you need to get new discs etc. Would not recommend drilling the originals as that German chap has it seems.

personally i think those carrera rims look fantastic... but i would be too worried to use adaptor.. wouldnt like one failling at 140

I want that Coupe

They look super

Asked an engineer type about spacers etc... He too was unsure but said that there would be extra load on the wheel bearings mainly but thats about it.

Admitted he wouldnt choose to drive with them on though.

Would really like to get a definitive answer from somewhere

Remember this thread?
http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/...amp;Number=196566&page=2&fpart=4

look down the list here and you can get hub adapters these are like spacers but you can have any wheel fit your coupe,and no need for woobly bolts you fit the std bolts back and then fit your porsche wheels with the porsche nuts pinin and hyper both have these as 20mm and both run 100 pcd on them and they dont have any prob the only prob i can see is the offset
http://www.performancealloys.com/alloy_wheels_adaptors.asp

I had the same story from two wheel specialists.

From a "wheel falling off at speed" point of view, as long everything is tight, and torqued up, then the general opinion was they wouldn't. But it's the extra load on the bearing which would cause concern for me.

That said, I'm running 18's with a wider offset than the factory standard, so I'm probably loading the bearings a lot more anyway...

cheers for the comments

given me something to think bout

The wheels i was looking at are £770 then plus tyres & adapters

chris

Ouch!! Is it worth spedning £1200 on wheels & tyres? On a car worth £3k or something.

The load on the wheel bearings is only half true for porsche rims. You will find most porsche rims are ET55 or ET52, so with the combination of a 20mm spacer it will be ET35 or the same offset as most aftermarket alloys anyway, and so EXACTLY THE SAME LOAD. It is only more load if the porsche rims run a lower offset (which primarily are turbo or widebody rears only). A lot of the Porsche rims are quite lightweight so the actual load on the bearings might be less. I think the Porsche Cup 2 rims I have on my Beetle weigh less than the coupe OE rims.

John

spedning £1200 on wheels & tyres? bloody hell mate theres better looking wheels out there than them for half the price