Technical Hub Centric

I have a 60" wide camaro rear end in my 53 chevy half ton and some 1" spacers would center the wheels in the wheel wells. Should I be concerned with getting hub centric ones or not? Where is a good spot to buy?

...otherwise its reverse rims I guess huh!

 

Pretty much every aftermarket wheel sold in the old days was lug centric. Usually we just get wheels with the correct offset, and bolt them to the car and go

 

I need a 1" negative offset to center the rear wheels and I believe that means I would have to order reverse rims to get that kind of backspace...or get some spacers. With that said, I thought I read someone saying if you use spacers they should be hub centric...I've seen others that are not and probably work fine but thought I would ask.

 

I bought some h&r spacers they are suppose to be the best made in Germany out of magnesium but that was for a customers in port car ! Hope that helps ! Also took months to get!!!

 

As a guide, our rules in New Zealand say that if it is a spacer that slides over your existing wheel studs it must be hub-centric and can only be 3/4 inch thick..

If the spacer is of this type that bolts onto your existing studs with tapered wheel nuts and has another set of studs that the wheel bolts on to, they can be lug-centric and up to 1 inch thick.

 

That rule makes sense, I'd follow it

 

I ran H&R's on my Porsche. They were 3"!

 

Assuming a 1" lug-centric spacer will be fine is good to hear. I don't know how many diff. hub hole sizes are out there but I figured buying a hub-centric spacer would be just another thing to watch carefully when buying rims.

 

It's much easier to get the wheel centered with hubcentric. Seems every time I had lug centric wheels, I never quite got rid of a shimmy at highway speeds.

Also, just to clarify, you need to get the wheels to sit out further?
Iirc, nomenclature is mounting faces outboard of the wheel centerline are positive offset. You noted adding negative offset, maybe I read it wrong.

 

I have a 60" wide rear end out of a 1st gen camaro witch is a couple of inches narrower (total) than the stock rear end. From the mounting face of the drum to the box side is 5" and I have about 11 1/2" to 12" clear inside the fender.

I believe a 1" spacer with a steel rim with a standard backspace will center them in the wheel well or I think i would have to get reversed rims.