Changing wheels?

Stinger said:

Why would you have to raise it???

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So you swap your wheels without jacking the car up first?

True, if you don't know, you don't know, but Christ, go out and look at your cars every once in a while. A V4? Didn't you ever open the hood?

I know I and others take it for granted that we have been doing "this" since before sites like the Corral were even started, so we already know the "basics" without thinking. Still though, I would do some reading on my own and actually looking at my car before asking MANY of the questions that are asked here. You can pick up a lot of stuff simply by looking at catalogs, even magazines. Though these days it seams really silly to read a magazine for tech, but I still get more mags than I would admit to simply for entertainment.

ditto

The tires on the 16'' rim should have a lower profile than your 14'' rims. So the overall circumfrence will be pretty close.

Whoever told you that you would need to jack it up, go kick for me...

As stated, the overall diameter of the tires are the same. Bigger rim+shorter tire=same diameter.

Turbopit said:

So you swap your wheels without jacking the car up first?

True, if you don't know, you don't know, but Christ, go out and look at your cars every once in a while. A V4? Didn't you ever open the hood?

I know I and others take it for granted that we have been doing "this" since before sites like the Corral were even started, so we already know the "basics" without thinking. Still though, I would do some reading on my own and actually looking at my car before asking MANY of the questions that are asked here. You can pick up a lot of stuff simply by looking at catalogs, even magazines. Though these days it seams really silly to read a magazine for tech, but I still get more mags than I would admit to simply for entertainment.

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I have to agree, basic knowledge is a must. there used to be a bunch of tech articles on this forum, but since it crashed they all disapeared. but to find some tech about the cars and their motors, just look at the websites that most of us on here have, some have more tech than others. then also there is Google'ing for "2.3 turbo ford" that should bring up all kinds of stuff.


as for the magazines, I have to argue that rarely do they actually have anything that is usefull. at the end of their articles I am left still scratching my head wanting more information or just more confused than before. mags like mm&ff have a bunch of cloned cars and for the most part do not suport our category of cars. LOL we really need to restart the "Per4mance Fords magazine". If anyone ever gets interested again, please count me in, I will try and do what I can to help it mature.
When I pick up mags off the shelf it is usually to check out the new parts and ideas and see if they can somewhow work for my aplication (usually not), or just for something to look at.


TF