I just bought some corvette rims and tires for my wife's kit car. I have yet to touch the suspension. I would like your advice on the easiest(most economical) way to change bolt pattern while maybe making way for brake and/or suspension upgrades.

What would you guys do?

See this add for Ebay and choose whatever depth you need for the adapters:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.h...=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

I am trying to swap to some drag wheels, and adapters are not smart / legal.....

Next option?

quote Originally posted by darkhorizon: I am trying to swap to some drag wheels, and adapters are not smart / legal..... Next option?

It's interesting, I have heard many people say they are not safe....hell, I won't even use them. Then there are those that swear by them, saying how great they are even under the most harsh conditions. I wish I knew what vendors actually took the time to machine them from steel rather than aluminum. THEN maybe I would buy a set.

http://members.fortunecity....bubbajoexx/id215.htm one of the pages shows using corvair hubs on front and s10 4x4 hubs on rear..

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[This message has been edited by jb1 (edited 12-31-2011).]

Best? Not cheapest... Call up street dreams by ross and ask him to ship you a set of new hubs. I think it was 550 for the fronts and similar for the rears.

So, $1100 for all four tires? I guess I will try the adapters.

I did mine for a little cheaper. However the machinist is a friend, and the rears still costed me a good penny to do. The fronts I was able to re-drill the bolt pattern (5x114.3) into the shaved hub/rotors, but even at that pattern it wasn't very strong (close to the edge of the hub), so I had to make piggy back adapters to slide onto the rear of the hubs (in steel than welded to the hubs).

So basically... Street dreams front hubs are nice pieces, but not cheap, custom making new ones or reworking the old ones aren't cheap. If you want to do it cheaper in a big chev pattern, bubbajoes method works, or yeah try adapters.

Thanks Custom. I tried to bring up the Bubba webpage but it won't work for me.

" Got 5 x 4.75 Wheels. Best Way to Make them work"

Trade them for 5x100 wheels.

Well I just bought front and rear adapters on ebay for $120. I will go that route for now till I can get the bubba website to work for me. I am very curious about the hub swap.

It's actually somewhere in this build thread he made a while back. FYI, cheaper adapter hubs will be made from cheaper materials, so at the very least.. pull the wheels off in decent intervals and check your torque specs on those bolts to insure they are not coming loose on you (and don't over tighten them either)..

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum3/HTML/000007.html

Best of luck,
Chase.

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