How do I choose a rear

[DEIGuy38]

Originally Posted by paulk68

Thanks, So my question is did you order your wheels first or your rear end?

I ordered my wheels first. Mocked them up, hung string from the quarters and measured wheel to wheel about 10 times to make sure. Had my chevy rear narrowed and installed ford ends with bolt in axles. I will PM you my number in case you have any questions. Like JDMan said each car is different, I talked to him and a few others prior to narrowing my rearend. You have to decide how much lip you want on your rear wheels and the distance from the inside quarter lip and if you are trimmimg the lip. I am wierd (anal/paticular/OCD call it what you want) but I wanted a step lip portion of the wheel to be the same measurement as the flat portion of the wheel. That is how I came up with my backspace dimension. See attached image, the blue line and the red line are approximately the same dimension, about 2-1/8" each. I believe you can change the center spacing in 1/2" increments.

Guy