Offset questions

[Your Uncle Moe]

Whats a good offest for Rims on my 96 V6? And how do you know if your looking at the rims? Will a different offest effect performance? And how?

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Originally posted by Gridlyne
Whats a good offest for Rims on my 96 V6? And how do you know if your looking at the rims? Will a different offest effect performance? And how?

Try to keep the same offset. You changing wheel offsets (by buying new rollers) can result in a change in "scrub radius" and torque steer.

When going to a smaller offset wheel, toe-in must be increased (same as decreasing toe-out) to compensate.

Going to a smaller offset wheel will change the scrub radius. The only way to bring it back to stock is to increase the overall diameter of the wheel/tire assembly. This has nothing to do with wheel diameter, but everything to do with the rolling diameter of the tires.

Of course it can effect performance, extreme off-set (ie. deep dishes) might be wonderful to look at... but you could be compensating by rolling with all of the weight of the car on just the lug studs. Not good once again.

Just do some research and you will find exactly what you want/need. If you got more questions feel free to ask!

Hope this helped you out some!