I'm a Chevy guy but can't help but take note of how Ford takes care of their customers with the shape of their wheel wells. Check out the F550 in this link

http://www.ricksontruck.com/customers/5/

Notice how the tires don't stick out of the sides of the truck like in open wheel racing. The tires fit inside just right. Those wheels are 22.5", too! (Granted, I don't care for the look of the wheels in this pictures. I'd go for something like a Brentz Big Classic or something.)

What are the odds of being able to get a 2500HD to look like this?

those are definately some ugly a$$ wheels

Chromewheel.com they sell the stuff directly. I almost bought myself the adaptors and whhel but I was scared for my wheel bearings taking the weight. If you do it, let me know.

Throw on a set of 22.5 chrome or gold spinners and then you got a truck.........




Those wheels are discusting.

Here's a stocker....
http://www.truckpaper.com/listings/forsale/Detail.asp?OHID=1034373&guid=EE3BB7F2E19949F29B51D14A0E8E5CB4

There was some major trimming done on the bumper, and the suspension MAY have been altered to move the front axle forward...

As far as not sticking out of the wheelwells, sure, you could get 22x6 steelies with 6" of backspacing and they won't stick out.

Don't really like the looks of that first one. Does nothing for me but mostly because it is a ferd...

Yeah, I do agree with you guys regarding the looks of the wheels in the original link (on the Ford F550). However, I do like the way the Ford wheel wells are contoured to the shape of the wheel (unlike Chevy's rectangularly shaped wells!... why does Chevy do that?). This allows the Ford to accept larger wheels / tires without being lifted as much. When I followed the links here and studied the projects on www.chromewheel.com, I found that most Chevy's needed about a 9" lift just to accomodate the 22.5" wheels with appropriately-sized (non-low-profile) commercial tires. And then there's the 8-to-10 bolt adapter issue. What this boils down to is excessive rotational mass and, like DirtyMax05's thoughts, this kills performance and longevity of the truck's axles and bearings, as well as fuel mileage, acceleration, and handling and overall usefulness of the truck's bed since it's hard to simply drop the tailgate and get stuff in/out of the bed. These types of trucks looks great, but I don't want to do a lift and adapters. However, I can definitly appreciate the use of 1/2-sized series commercial wheels and tires, and like the looks of the larger sizes, but just trying to see what can be done to get maximum size without lifting and using adapter plates. Maybe I'll just have to stick with a 19.5" wheel and experiment with largest tire sizes and simple mods with the truck. (Being relatively new to this forum, I'm guessing this is what everyone else has already been through.)

Yeah, I do agree with you guys regarding the looks of the wheels in the original link (on the Ford F550). However, I do like the way the Ford wheel wells are contoured to the shape of the wheel (unlike Chevy's rectangularly shaped wells!... why does Chevy do that?). This allows the Ford to accept larger wheels / tires without being lifted as much. When I followed the links here and studied the projects on www.chromewheel.com (http://www.chromewheel.com), I found that most Chevy's needed about a 9" lift just to accomodate the 22.5" wheels with appropriately-sized (non-low-profile) commercial tires. And then there's the 8-to-10 bolt adapter issue. What this boils down to is excessive rotational mass and, like DirtyMax05's thoughts, this kills performance and longevity of the truck's axles and bearings, as well as fuel mileage, acceleration, and handling and overall usefulness of the truck's bed since it's hard to simply drop the tailgate and get stuff in/out of the bed. These types of trucks looks great, but I don't want to do a lift and adapters. However, I can definitly appreciate the use of 1/2-sized series commercial wheels and tires, and like the looks of the larger sizes, but just trying to see what can be done to get maximum size without lifting and using adapter plates. Maybe I'll just have to stick with a 19.5" wheel and experiment with largest tire sizes and simple mods with the truck. (Being relatively new to this forum, I'm guessing this is what everyone else has already been through.)

Man-O-War I was looking for a nice set of 19.5 myself because I need the added weight hauling capacity(4500-lbs) the Commercial type tires will give me, anyways Brent from Brentz Wheels contacted me yesterday and told me unless I or other GM owners have a large lift added to their trucks the only wheel & Tire combo that will work for us with stock suspensions are the 19.5 X 6.75" wheel and 245x70 tire, which is 2" higher then our stock 265/75R-16/E tire.

Hey.... check out the "Who's got the biggest truck" thread...

There's a shot in there with a D/A with commercial 22's on a 6" lift.

Here's a nice looking GMC I saw a while back. The only downside is the damn tires. It's still a nice ass truck though.

http://mufakkaracing.com/openbb/read.php?TID=8180