Todd M posted:I just read this in an ad:
Chrome 5 1/2" x 15" front and 7" x 15" rear chrome wheels and covers.
Is it standard for the various replicas that the rear wheel wells can fit 7" wide wheels, and a corresponding width increase in tires?
I've had a pair of original later 15x6" Fuchs widened 1" to the inside (so they're like the original 911R 7" wheels, as opposed to a regular 7" Fuchs which has the extra width on the outside) and with 205's it looks like they'll fit with type 1 brakes, irs trailing arms, and my home made spring plates. I will be using type 3 rear brakes (adds 5/8" width per side) so will have to narrow the trailing arms 1/2-5/8" to make it all work. I think a regular 7" Fuchs (with 205's) would fit on a swingaxle car, provided it had the earlier shorter (to1966) axles/tubes with type 1 brakes. There's also the axles and tubes from the even earlier (to 1960) cars: I don't know their lengths, but I suspect it's the same or very close to the '61-'66 assemblies. IIrc there's about an 1 3/4" (per side) difference between the earliest and latest swingaxles, with '67 being somewhere in the middle. If you'd like to know the specific lengths, ask and I'll look them up later.
Whether those 7's you saw in the ad will fit a particular car will depend on their offset/backspacing. With 3 different swingaxle lengths (and irs being the same track as the 1968 and newer axles and tubes), most (if not all) disc brakes adding 1/2-5/8" (per side) to the mix and wheels having different offsets/backspacing, you can see why there's no simple answer. The Fuchs wheel chart- look at the difference between the 2 7x15's, and there's even 2 different 8x16's as well-
I haven't seen it in years, but there is (or used to be) an older IM Speedster in Vancouver with 8" alloys and 225's on the back, and the car didn't look flared. The guy did it with the pie cut method. This is a real coupe, but you can see the principle- before- 
and after-
