Today I swapped wheels on Sora Blue. I always wanted to see what my Panasports would look like on it.
Here she is with stock 14" wheels and 185/70/14 whitewall tires, and I absolutely love this this look:
With the 16x7 Panasports:
Up front the stance and fitment is perfect imho. The wheelwell is filled up quite nicely:
Sexy!
The lesson I learned? Every roadster is built differently with body panel and frame positioning that will affect clearances both front and rear.
Last edited by Alvin on Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:39 am, edited 2 times in total.
I saw these wheels on the new VW, first thought was how cool they would look on a Roadster, without the VW logo, of course.
Except for being 5 lug, wrong offset, and having to fabricate a new hubcap, it would look great with whitewalls.
Dave Brisco
Take my advice, I'm not using it"
66 2000 The Bobster
64 1500 in pieces for sale
1980 Fiat X1/9
2009 Volvo C-70
08 Expedition EL, STUPID huge but comfy
1962 Thompson Sea Lancer, possible money pit
I too really like the white walls on sora, but man those panasports looks really good on there.
Ever think about having an old set of rims cut in half to be wider and running those?
I'd bet Coker has a tire that might work.
--Dave
67.5 1600 originally Sora Blue, now Yellow...
1972 BMW 2002 Colorado. (the color, not the state)
1999 BMW 318ti (daily driver for most of the year)
1989 BMW 325ix (the best winter sled and the first BMW I ever drove).
2004 BMW X5...happy wife...
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Dave Brisco
Take my advice, I'm not using it"
66 2000 The Bobster
64 1500 in pieces for sale
1980 Fiat X1/9
2009 Volvo C-70
08 Expedition EL, STUPID huge but comfy
1962 Thompson Sea Lancer, possible money pit
Only the last pic of Sora Blue shows up for me. Can everyone else see all the pics up top?
It's becuase of the webshots issue Alvin (and everyone else who used it) had to deal with. As far as I have seen, there are loads of "broken" pictures on the 311s.org site now because of it.
My junk pile:
71 Jeep Gladiator. Restored w/#s matching engine. My WeeBeasty
70 1600 legit 2nd owner. Stroked and bored
Several salvaged w access to a barn full of parts, part cars & whole cars
......What's in the barn is for sale. What do you need?
Another example of the glaringly different fender clearances on our roadsters. I test fitted my 0 offset 16x7 Panasports on the Side-Pipe roadster.
With a 205/45/16 Hankook R-S3 tire it fit surprisingly well!
When I had 15x6 +10 Panasports with 195/50/15 S-03 tires on my roadster they rubbed in the back and I had to roll the rear lips. This 16x7 is much more wheel/tire, and you can see the inboard/outboard clearances look fine. Every roadster is different!
