1989 Saleen/ARE wheel questions?

[2MANYTOYZ]

I have a 89 with the stock 5 star type wheels. These seem to be 8's and 9's,unless im measuring wrong.

Anyways i cleaned them up real nice and on the back side i found several markings and p/n's. I noticed the rears were on the left side of the car, ugh.

However a friend of mine has alot of saleen parts and i spotted what looks to be the exact wheel but in different offsets. One appears to be just like mine and the other a little different.

Any pics of the differences in fronts and rears?

Also any marking i need to look for?

Also i noticed on 2 of them there is a 69 stamped onto the backside of a wheel spoke,my car is #659, is that what that means?

[viking]

The '89 to '91 ARE star wheels were 7" and 8". You do not measure the entire width of the rim, you go from inside tire mounting lip to lip. These were standard ARE wheels which Saleen ordered in custom offsets. So, ones with different spacing are the non-Saleen standard ARE wheels. I do not know about part #'s, but the Saleen versions had a backspacing of 4 3/8" on the front 7" wheels, and 5 3/4" on the rear 8" wheels.

[2MANYTOYZ]

How would 245/45/16 tires fit the fronts?

[89saleen485]

i have 225/45/16 on front and 245/45/16 on rear they fit/look perfect, in my opinion 245's on front wouldnt look right.