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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by 2doorfury
Here is my old soft 8's, roughly a 7" backspace with 275/60/15 tire, lowered 4/6

Who did you order the custom soft 8's from?
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 03:44 PM
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all i can find is 5" backspacing at most through summit
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 03:46 PM
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He had weldcraft cut them from 15x8 to 15x10 iirc
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by oakley6575
Who did you order the custom soft 8's from?
Thats what I want to know.
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 04:05 PM
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Actually bought them off of a memeber on here. He had them professionally widened. They started out as a 5x8 with 5" backspace. Then widened 2"
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 04:10 PM
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I believe it was spraydenali who I bought the cragars from
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 04:26 PM
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I just didn't think the soft 8's were avail in a offset that would keepem under the bed side/ Hmmm
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 04:32 PM
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will a 5" backspacing make the rubber stick out past the quarter panel??? also wouldnt offset have something to do with it as well??
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 04:40 PM
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I dont know details on exactly how he achieved the right backspacing to keep them under the bed. May have something to do with going 15x8, then adding 2" to to back side of the wheel. Instead of going straight to a 15x10? Anyone know him? He's on here a lot. Maybe he can chime in with some detailed info.
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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 05:10 PM
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I contacted Tim at Cragar last week about building me some custom wheels and he said he could build any configuration I wanted but I had to order them through a vendor. Couldn't do it direct from him. I'm having a hard time getting any of their vendors to order custom wheels though.

I just want some 15x10 with 6.5" backspacing. I don't really care what series the wheel is
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