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Back to the question of IRS and standard bodies - unless I'm badly mistaken, if you want to run a standard rear disc brake package with this setup, you'll end up with 4-1/2" rims and you won't be able to slide a credit card between the rear tires and fender. All of the commonly available rear disc conversions (even those advertising as "zero-offset") add at least a half inch per side to track width. There may be rear disc packages that do not add width, but they won't be EMPI cheap. If you want more rubber than you can get with 4-1/2" wheels (and you would), 914 wheels provide a 5" wheel with enough backspace to work.

If you want 5-1/2" Wide 5 wheels, your options are to get steel wheels recentered, or to just get the narrowed trailing arms. As it happens, Ron Lummus Racing has them on sale right now. Figure on $1000- 1200.

Nothing pertaining to these cars is free. You don't always get what you pay for, but you always pay for what you get.

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