14mm or similar offset photos from the front or back

[Crashthepunisher]

Hey, does anyone have photos of their Raptor with 14mm or close to 14mm offset wheels from the front or back? I'm trying to visualize whether/how much they will extend beyond the flare width. Thanks.

 

[BIRDMAN]

http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f15/raptor-beauty-shots-2338/
i have 18mm

 

[whtrapta]

it also depends on the backspacing. I have 0mm and they stick out some.

 

[Raptor Retrofit]

Hey, does anyone have photos of their Raptor with 14mm or close to 14mm offset wheels from the front or back? I'm trying to visualize whether/how much they will extend beyond the flare width. Thanks.

+14 is going to be pretty much flush with the fender width.

 

[Crashthepunisher]

Thanks Bird and Ducati. Bird, yours are then barely over 1/8 inch narrower than 14mm would be. Are yours 8.5 or 9 inches wide. When you look straight down the side with the wheels straight are they fully within the flares? From the angle in the photos, I can't really tell very well. The only reason I'm being so precise is that I l literally have about 2 inches clearance to the flares on each side for the garage opening, so don't want to decrease that at all if I can avoid it.

Rapta, from reading about 30 of these threads, isn't backspacing directly related to offset so that you only need to consider one? In other words, they are two ways of saying the same thing: how far from the center of the wheel to the mounting surface? The wheels I'm considering are 8.5 wide with 14mm offset.

 

[BIRDMAN]

Thanks Bird and Ducati. Bird, yours are then barely over 1/8 inch narrower than 14mm would be. Are yours 8.5 or 9 inches wide. When you look straight down the side with the wheels straight are they fully within the flares? From the angle in the photos, I can't really tell very well. The only reason I'm being so precise is that I l literally have about 2 inches clearance to the flares on each side for the garage opening, so don't want to decrease that at all if I can avoid it.

Rapta, from reading about 30 of these threads, isn't backspacing directly related to offset so that you only need to consider one? In other words, they are two ways of saying the same thing: how far from the center of the wheel to the mounting surface? The wheels I'm considering are 8.5 wide with 14mm offset.

Mine are 9". the treads are just about even with the flares, the sidewalls bow out maybe 3/4".

the offset is directly related to the backspacing but what he probably meant was a 14mm offset 8" wheel will have a different backspace than a 14mm 9" wheel.
(keep in mind that wheels are measured from inside the lip where the tire mounts and the actual full width of a wheel will be about an inch wider than it's "size" 8.5" wheel is actually about 9.5" wide total.
the stock wheels have 6.09"bs, 3.41fs

18mm 9" = 5.70 bs, 4.30fs

14mm 8.5" 5.30 bs, 4.20 fs

14mm 9" 5.55bs, 4.45fs

 

[Crashthepunisher]

So then Birdman, if I go with an 8.5 inch wheel (just like OEM), but with a 14mm offset instead of the 30 something, then the difference in backspace between those two is .79"? All I have to do is put a ruler on the tire edge and the new wheels would be .79" wider with same tires, right? Thanks!

 

[BIRDMAN]

So then Birdman, if I go with an 8.5 inch wheel (just like OEM), but with a 14mm offset instead of the 30 something, then the difference in backspace between those two is .79"? All I have to do is put a ruler on the tire edge and the new wheels would be .79" wider with same tires, right? Thanks!

well, yeah i would say front space would make more sense to reference since that's the outward face but the difference is the same...so yeah they will stick out .79" more on each side.

 

[Crashthepunisher]

For the folks who might look at this in the future, I just went out and looked at the OEM wheels as compared with the flares. If you get at the front or back of the vehicle and look down the truck, you can see that actually the sidewall of the tire on top is almost perfectly even with the edge of the flare. But, the sidewall on bottom, with the weight bulge, is probably a full inch outside of the flares. The tread of course, is further inside the flare. I think these wheels are designed with these tires in mind to exactly match the sidewall to the edge of the flare.

 

[Crashthepunisher]

Correction. The top of the front sidewalls are even with the edge of the flares. The rear sidewalls are inset a little, maybe an inch.