Anybody have transport wheels with a 5/7 drop

[Ryhno]

Yes I agree those black caps would look great! I think they would fit? I know the 4x4 chrome caps fit real nice

 

[2k2leenin]

There’s a few videos on YouTube by “lowlifeyonkes” under the title “Chevy obs 6 lug conversion”. He has gray transports on a what looks to be a forest green scsb.

 

[sewlow]

Corey Floyd's.
Only 400 pix I have with transports. Bagged, though.
Corey's had the truck for years, & put a ton of miles on it going to various shows up & down the east coast.
I have seen it on different wheels, so I don't know if he's done all that driving on the 22's.

 

[someotherguy]

Trying to remember what the backspacing is on these Transport wheels... anybody know?

Richard

 

[MrPink]

Trying to remember what the backspacing is on these Transport wheels... anybody know?

Richard

Give me a bit, I may be able to look them up

 

[MrPink]

Wheel Offset = +24 mm - Back Space = 5.94" Inches

 

[someotherguy]

Wheel Offset = +24 mm - Back Space = 5.94" Inches

Thanks.. wow! That's a lot more than I thought they had. I guess I never got around to measuring when I had them sitting in front of me. My concern is fitment on a dropped truck; we see they fit the white GMT400 posted earlier in this thread but it may not be known what all he did to get them to fit (other than the obvious 6 lug swap.)

US Wheel has some smoothies out now in a variety of bolt patterns but I believe their fitment is geared more towards old-school style, closer to a zero offset. Example - their offering in 17x9 is 0/5", 20x9 is -6/4.75", 22x9 is -35/3.625" they look great, though..

(Caps optional) Wheels likely to be Chinesium but who knows.. also likely to be no question as to whether they're DOT certified, as I'm sure they are. I do imagine it would be wise to throw them on the balancer BEFORE mounting tires or painting them, so one doesn't run into trouble like with Wheel Vintiques where some are way out of round and their excuse is they were meant for "show only" and have practically no QC. (first hand experience with that scenario on Wheel Vintiques, not heresay)

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Looking further into the sizes I see another example - they have 20x9 but not 20x10 - you jump to a 20x11. The 20x11 is 0/6" which won't fit the rear of a dropped GMT400, IMO. When I ran the 20x10 Boss 338's with 6" backspace they were a perfect fit. An extra .5" of wheel would have made me nervous, or made me pick a narrower tire to avoid any chance of a sidewall bulge, defeating the purpose of going wider out back. Hey; maybe they'd fit if you trimmed the fender lip out and smoothed the edge.

Richard

 

[MrPink]

I emailed them from my work email, we will see if they respond lol.

 

[Stumpy]

https://detroitsteelwheel.com/products/
Their smoothie could pass for a transport wheel, I guess, but starting at $280, that's a lot for a steel wheel.

Truck rallies too.

 

[someotherguy]

https://detroitsteelwheel.com/products/
Their smoothie could pass for a transport wheel, I guess, but starting at $280, that's a lot for a steel wheel.

Truck rallies too.

A 22x9 (Transport size) Detroit smoothie is $313 in bare metal; add $45 for any of the standard powder coat finishes. The $313 is probably the fair number to look at since a Transport wheel will need refinishing anyway. Something else to consider is the Transport wheel is used, has been mounted/dismounted who knows how many times, and so far each set I've seen has at least a few minor (and some not-so-minor) bends that will need straightening. They seem to go for around $500-$600 a set lately, when you can find them.

EDIT - the US Wheels smoothie in 22x9, powdercoated, is $376 so that puts it a bit higher than the Detroit wheel ($358 powdercoated) but not much.

Gotta say while I dig squarebody Rally's in their original sizes, I think the larger size repros look awful. They look especially bad and awkward on those brand new "old school" style Tahoes that one place is building. To each their own, though; somebody's buying that stuff, I guess?

Richard