Yeah, 2.5" is a lot. To make that much work you would have to do a full mini tub. But 1.5" shouldn't be too bad though.thanks Dave, I took off 245 x 45 x 17"s on 9" wide rims and with the car being lowered 2.5" they would rub the bottom of the wheel well on a big dump.
Yea, I'm going to pull these slicks and get some good street / strip tires (any suggestions) then deal with the wheel well issue, maybe drop the rear down some with a little redoing of my spring spacer.
But these slicks look soooooo kool!
If you're willing to perform a 5-lug converstion (and why wouldn't you be....the brake upgrade alone is worth it), and you want to stick to a Ford wheel, you could probably get away with using '05-up wheels on your car with that thunderbird rear end. Combine that with a set of '99-'04 front spindles and you could get yourself a nice, factory stance out of the deal. And some of these S197 wheels really look killer on the old Fox's.
S197 wheels tend to have about an additional 20mm offset, over the Fox wheels, which will pull them in a little closer to the center and offset some of that added width of the Turbocoupe rear end.
Gonna follow this thread, since I just swapped a turbocoupe rear into my fox and I'm getting a headache trying to figure out what wheel/tire combo to get. I'm not racing but it would be cool to get 275s in the back without rubbing the fender. I don't mind rolling the fender but with some rims I'm not sure whether it will be enough. I gather plenty of people have done this swap so there must be some 4 lug wheels that are doable. I'm not sure exactly what springs are in mine, I think 2" lowering but how would I even measure that for sure?
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