need some help guys wheels are way to close???

yeah i have a couple friend thats work at a machine shop so i can take them there. just didnt know about how much to have them take off. its sticking out past the front fender about 1/4 at full lift. layed out it sucks up in the front pretty good but its about 1/8 inch away from the fender and its not rolled yet. so im not much worried about the front. its just the rear im worried about. lol well hope to have some pics by the weekend.


i found on the page i may order the centers from it says the offset it +8 ?

With that offset and the wheel being 8 inches wide you have a backspacing of 4.814 inches (which is roughly 4 an 13/16). On the rear I'm pretty sure that will not clear the bed sides.

whats the best size rims to run in a 18??????? i have a show on may 2nd and im dead set on having some wheels on this thing. well if they are not goin to work for me on the mazda they are up for sale for 350 i just ordered new center caps for them today and cost me 200 just for them. and i have 200 in the rims. so im losing 50 bucks just to get rid of them.

We don't have a big selections of 6 lug wheels in 7" wide and that would be preferred maybe even a 7.5. You can also do a 8" but you will need aleast a +50mm offset for that wide of a wheel. If you can find a 7" wide wheel in 6 lug you will need at least a +40mm offset which is roughly 5.5 inch backspacing on a 7" wide wheel. Thats not set in stone, it from my memory and I'm an old fart so see if someone corrects me. To get a postive answer for yourself you need to measure it. Do you know how? If not a quick lesson for you. Quick way to roughly get your answer: Jack up the rear of the truck by the pumpkin (center of the rear end) and take off one wheel, get your self a level and place it vertical on the outside of the drum (on a flat spot the wheel will bolt up to) with most of the level sticking up. Now measure from the backside of the level to about a inch or so away from the inside of the bed or the closest object that will hit the wheel or tire. Now that is you backspacing that you will be happy with. Now take a picec of string or something you can hang down from inside the bed side on the wheel well opening. Again measure from the backside of the level out to the string, and the will give you the front spacing you need. Add them together and that is how wide of a wheel you can run. Example: you get a backspaing measurement of 5.75 and front spacing of 2.25. That means the overall wheel size is 8" ok now here is where it gets werid, that means you will order a 7" wide wheel. Cause wheel manufacters give you wheel widths they don't add the lip where the tire beads up to. So you need to add 1/2 to each side of the wheel so a 7" wide wheel is really a 8" wide wheel when you get down to it. Hope this helps.

well i dont have to worry about anything now. im gettin rid of them and gettin some thing else. might have a deal worked out with another set of 18's with a pretty good offset that should deff work on the mazda. but im goin to check first. lol well thanks for the info guys. till then im still dragin on stock z71's.