i'm looking for a little advice on selecting my next set of wheels. due to budget constraints i'm somewhat limited in my wheel selection. i've decided to go with the american racing ar-767 (the traditional black american racing wheels that everyone has). my problem is that right now i have 31x1050's on my 4runner. i want to keep the 31's for now because they're still good, and i want to use them in the snow. i will in the future want to go to 32x1150's and maybe have the option to go to 33's if i really get into wheeling. the ar-767 wheels only come in 15x8 or 15x10 (15x9 would be ideal for what i want to do).

if i choose 15x8, then i'm right in the center of the recommended size for the 31x1050 (7"-9") but on the low end for the 32 (8-10). i'd really like to get the wider wheel because it has more room for upgrades in the future.

basically my question is: is it ok to run 1050 tires on a 10" wheel? i know it's out of the spec from the tire company, but is it ok to do? or is it too dangerous to put a 1050 on a wheel that's almost as wide?

if i go with the 8" wheel, will i get a bunch of ballooning of the tire when i go to a 32x1150, since i'll be on low end of the limits for wheel size?

thanks!
mike

 

Go with the 8" wheels. 10" is too wide for a 10.5. As far as ballooning - that's a good thing. It protects the rim and keeps the tire on the rim in low air situations. I am currently running 33x12.5R15's on 15x8's. The ride is a big improvement over stock. The wheels are an inch wider than the stock alloys and the ones I got are almost an inch less backspace. In wheels and tires, my track has increased about 5 inches overall.

 

Get 15x8's.

Mike is right on with the reasons.

A narrower rim protects you from losing a bead when aired down.

10" wide rims with 10.5" tires would be silly since the tire would look a lot like a racing slick with all that width.

I have 33x12.5's on 8" wide rims and am toying with the idea of 15x9s when it is time for beadlocks.

 

Aren't beadlocks that start life as a 15x8 become 15x9's due to the addition of the BL ring? I think the OMF's made from MT Classic II's measure 15x9 (starting with an 8" wheel)

I know the rockstomper "kit" to make your own beadlocks added over an inch to the width...

 

There appears to be no necessity of added width other than the kits do indeed add it.

Off the shelf, you can get any width, with-in reason obviously.