How is the deep rear rim look accomplished?

[Daren]

Without shortening axles/housings and mini tubing, how is this look pulled off? I just noticed that almost all PT cars have these really deep rear rims on the wheels.

What the trick? under back spaced at the rears with rolled fender lips and over backspaced in the fronts with spacers? Is is being done for looks or for a function?

[TheJDMan]

A narrowed rear end and a lot of very careful measuring is the only way to accomplish this look!

[Daren]

A narrowed rear end and a lot of very careful measuring is the only way to accomplish this look!

Thank you, this was my initial assumption but you know what they say about those.

[Roadbuster]

A lot of our cars have big wheel wells so with a wide wheel you get a nice dish. About 5 inches of back space is common and with an 10 or 11 inch wheel there is a good dish. Minitubs allow really wide wheels, when combined with the narrowed axle gives really deep dish. Overdoing it can cause problems with flexing the rear axle flange under hard corning, which can cause pad knock back on rear disk brakes.

[Daren]

A lot of our cars have big wheel wells so with a wide wheel you get a nice dish. About 5 inches of back space is common and with an 10 or 11 inch wheel there is a good dish. Minitubs allow really wide wheels, when combined with the narrowed axle gives really deep dish. Overdoing it can cause problems with flexing the rear axle flange under hard corning, which can cause pad knock back on rear disk brakes.

That makes perfect sense. Narrower front wheels naturally provide for a shallow dish.

So a 2nd gen T/A with those big rear wheel wells could run a 18x10 with proper backspacing producing a deep rear dished wheel, with 18x8 up front providing a shallower dish.