Let's face it, the Rally 2 wheel is great for our 1st Gens. But tire and suspension tech have evolved such that the old Rally 2's are practically obsolete if you plan to drive your car "enthusiastically". There are a couple of options for larger Rally 2's (Year One and Wheel Vintiques come to mind). In my opinion the Year One versions are the closest to the real thing in appearance and they are quite reasonably priced. However, the back-spacing is not optional on these wheels (4.5” on the 17” by 8”, and 5” on the 17” by 9”). We all know it’s a hell of a lot easier to adjust for a little extra back-spacing on your wheel and darn near impossible to deal with too little back-spacing.

The easiest solution, in my opinion, is for Year One to start making these wheels with a couple of different back-spacing options.

For the 17” by 8”, let’s add 5” and maybe 5.5”.

Any other ideas?

Year One, are you listening?

If enough of us are into this, I’m sure they will listen.

Attached is a picture of one of the Year One wheels I recently purchase. Caps and lugs nuts were included. You can see that they look great. Now, we need to convince Year One to make them fit great!

I didn't have any issues with spacing and I'm sitting low to the ground.

Thanks for the info. Your car looks great! Could you please confirm you are running 245-45's up front. Would you also let me know what your camber setting is. I'm going to add a bit more negative camber to bring the tops of the tires in a bit. This should give me some additional clearance.

And finally, could you please let me know if your front suspension is stock. If it's not, what mods have you made.

Thanks for your time and help.

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Goose, thanks for the info.

Is anybody else out there running these Year One Rally 2's?

If so, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

I'm about to buy these wheels and would also like to know the tires and setup your running.. Thanks

I have a 67 bird and I'm wondering did you ever figure this stuff out? Also I would love to see current pics with these wheels on your car if you have? Cheers

I'm running 245/45/17's on all 4 corners... 17x8 with 4.5" backspacing. They will fit a stock application with minimal issues. I did run into a few problems when I replaced the suspension but that was no fault of Year-one. I lowered the car with the hotchkis springs (SBC 2") in the front and 1.5 in the back. The front ended up too low (rubbed inner fender lip when hitting a dip at speeds), so i used global west isolators to raise it about 1/2". Another FGF member (salesguy) used the 2" BBC springs and he fit just right. Since then I have changed to an LS platform and removed the spacers and have had no issues. The main advantage that I like about the rims are they do not stick you to one tire like the stock 15" rims. If i could go back and do it again I think that I would have used the Detroit speed mini tubs and gotten a much wider tire but you simply can't beat the rims for the the price.