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Old 03-31-2021, 12:30 PM
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Default E88 NB to WB barrel change

What's entailed?

Fronts stay as they are?

Rears, both inner and outers change?

What is WB offsets?

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Reach out to Mike, pretty sure he has experience with these.
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Reach out to Erik at SupremePower. Super friendly and helpful guy
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^ That's not going to ever happen. I would drive my car on tireless steel sucked in wheels before I did that.

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Originally Posted by RAudi Driver
^ That's not going to ever happen. I would drive my car on tireless steel sucked in wheels before I did that.
Would love to know the story here if we should avoid him!
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Assuming you keep the same centers, if you swap out inner and outer barrels by 1/2" keeping overall wheel width the same, you will change offset by 12.7mm. If you go a full 1" on both, offset will change wheel ET 25.4mm. WB offset on a 12" wheel is ET45 or so. If you end up needing new centers, BBS is backlogged till July on current orders.

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Spoke with Eric and he said only the centers are holding them up. Barrels are available. Backorder of the centers are at least 6 months out. They are trickling in but you have to get on the list now.
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I went the opposite direction, from wide body fitment to narrow. I’ve still got the wide body barrels if you are interested.
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I have set of new E88s for wide body fitment. Black with polished rim. PM if interested.
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E88 Narrow Body fitment is as follows:

Front
E88 274 center
19x9 +50
1" lip
8" barrel

Rear
E88 108 center
19x12 +62.5
2.5" lip
9.5" barrel
*Remove factory spacer

To convert rear to Wide Body fitment:

Rear
E88 108 center
19x12 +50
​​​​​​​3" lip
9" barrel
*Add factory spacer to lower offset to +45

OR use E88 107 center for the following:

Rear
E88 107 center
19x12 +42
​​​​​​​3.5" lip
8.5" barrel
*I am not positive but I believe these 107 specs are achieved without factory spacer...confirm with BBS. If you are converting from a NB set, you are most likely running a 108.
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