Considering widening my rear wheels, would like to verify my thoughts on fitment
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I haven't done anything with these wheels yet.
Packed them up, then tire kicked deciding on 9.25 and 9.5 for weeks.
I know it's only a quarter of an inch, but i'm still of the opinion that the square size wheel with a 275 tire is 9.5+. There is no scenario where i go past 9.5, it would surely require a large spacer, so if that's the best i can do, it is what it is at that point. I'm not putting the 3 inch studs back in, though i do have 1/4 MM spacers on hand to use if absolutely necessary.
I'm not suggesting anyone with a 9 is wrong, but it would not be my preference and after all I did run 275s on an 8.5 which i would truly deem a mistake.
As luck would have it, the tires that match my relatively new fronts came back in stock, i was thinking they were gone forever.
So I ordered them, should be here tomorrow. They are among the cheapest, but still well reviewed by road racers of the Super 200 tire category. The kuhmo v730. Dangerous in the rain and poor treadwear but those aren't two things i care about, i don't drive far from home very often and i can't see myself driving this car in the rain, period, i could get it stuck in wet grass on flat ground...
To be clear, i'm not road racing, but that type of tire is one of the few soft compounds available in many sizes.
I am curious on the bead width of these tires their natural unmounted form.
Tirerack states they measure section width of a 275 on a 9.5 wheel.
Packed them up, then tire kicked deciding on 9.25 and 9.5 for weeks.
I know it's only a quarter of an inch, but i'm still of the opinion that the square size wheel with a 275 tire is 9.5+. There is no scenario where i go past 9.5, it would surely require a large spacer, so if that's the best i can do, it is what it is at that point. I'm not putting the 3 inch studs back in, though i do have 1/4 MM spacers on hand to use if absolutely necessary.
I'm not suggesting anyone with a 9 is wrong, but it would not be my preference and after all I did run 275s on an 8.5 which i would truly deem a mistake.
As luck would have it, the tires that match my relatively new fronts came back in stock, i was thinking they were gone forever.
So I ordered them, should be here tomorrow. They are among the cheapest, but still well reviewed by road racers of the Super 200 tire category. The kuhmo v730. Dangerous in the rain and poor treadwear but those aren't two things i care about, i don't drive far from home very often and i can't see myself driving this car in the rain, period, i could get it stuck in wet grass on flat ground...
To be clear, i'm not road racing, but that type of tire is one of the few soft compounds available in many sizes.
I am curious on the bead width of these tires their natural unmounted form.
Tirerack states they measure section width of a 275 on a 9.5 wheel.
gkomo
now i can hopefully expect to receive the shaft
I don't take a lot of car pics, but here is a recent one.
Also some pics of the wheels I plan on having modded. In it's current form it's completely bare aluminum after i had the chrome stripped.
Came out better than i thought honestly. I had the set from my Saleen Explorer Xp8 stripped years ago and NJ winters and crappy saleen chrome work left one wheel pretty much unusable and the rest in mediocre condition. I'm not a fan of chrome or polishing, but something about how this set came out tells me to polish them all. Or go black with a red stripe around the border and put the molding on the car back to black.
This video was done 16 years ago (I've changed quite bit since then, but you get the idea), when my buddy still owned his shop. Previously before it was Big Daddy performance it was a much smaller shop as Outrageous Mustangs. No that is not him or me, that's Mikey, Dwayne is much tanner, lol.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92hxg7Bg-5Y
Also some pics of the wheels I plan on having modded. In it's current form it's completely bare aluminum after i had the chrome stripped.
Came out better than i thought honestly. I had the set from my Saleen Explorer Xp8 stripped years ago and NJ winters and crappy saleen chrome work left one wheel pretty much unusable and the rest in mediocre condition. I'm not a fan of chrome or polishing, but something about how this set came out tells me to polish them all. Or go black with a red stripe around the border and put the molding on the car back to black.
This video was done 16 years ago (I've changed quite bit since then, but you get the idea), when my buddy still owned his shop. Previously before it was Big Daddy performance it was a much smaller shop as Outrageous Mustangs. No that is not him or me, that's Mikey, Dwayne is much tanner, lol.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92hxg7Bg-5Y
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