school boy

OMG, you whining little tit! Yes the steering geometry will be affected going from one extreme to another! Youre not going to fit any wheel with negative offset being 9" wide wheel and a 25.6 tall tire without rubbing. With what regular street tire/wheel that can fit, the geometry will see so little difference it would be unnoticed! Just stop pissing people off around here being a know it all!

Sonic Mustang

It's not about going from extreme to extreme. It's about maintaining the correct steering and suspension geometry.

If 15mm goes unnoticed, why would the bean counters at Ford pay to design and build a different spec 17" X 8" wheel for the SN197 when they could have used the fully amortized tooling for the SN95 Bullitt wheels?

Yeah, Ford spent millions designing, building and stocking an all new 17" X 8" wheel and putting it into production, assembly and parts under an all new part number when they should have used the old 2001 1/2 Bullitts.

Yeah, those Ford engineers are idiots and your brain is disconnected..

school boy

Yes the 15mm will and has gone unnoticed on every s197 17x9 wheel AM has sold since it has the same offset as a sn95 17x9 wheel. And you say to keep the correct steering geometry? The op going with a 9 inch wheel will stay well within it or he will rub the fender well or the wheel will be hanging outside the fender. So im done here, preach all you want. Op, if you have anymore questions, i'll be happy to help.

Sonic Mustang

I thought my question was very clear. If 15mm is nothing, why did Ford spend millions on new 17" X 8" wheels for the S197 instead of just using original Bullitt wheels?

Staying within the wheel wells or not rubbing has nothing to with maintaining the original suspension/steering geometry.

Vertigo_GT

You didn't really have a question did you? You just wanted to, as usual show everyone how smart you are and nit-pick good answers to legitimate questions.
What part of the below CORRECT answer do you not understand Poindexter?

"On a daily driven street car, there will be no noticable change in steering or movement of the front suspension geometry due to the change in offset."
NOTICEABLE is a key word there Sparky.

I doubt it cost Ford millions to design and distribute a wheel with a different offset. Chip Foose designs and manufactures one of a kind wheels every other week for people on Overhaulin'.

Grow up Jackass!

LilRoush

First of all, you didn't ASK anything. Go read what you wrote.
Second, you were wrong trying to correct my statement - that on a street driven car, there will be no noticable change to front suspension geometry. School Boy and I provided facts relative to this topic. We aren't talking about FWD offset on a RWD car and measuring fractions of change. We are talking about noticable difference a street driven car will show (ZERO).
Third, your illustration shows nothing related to the change we are discussing in this thread, so it's a complete failure of an example.

Seriously, you try WAY to hard at the whole "Look at me and my facts - I'm amazing" thing around here. Nobody cares for it and it makes you look like a tool. The worst part is you are trashing threads by filling them with bad info and you don't seem to understand how much it's dragging the rest down. Get over yourself.

BraMas

I have nothing good to add to this thread and it appears it has been already ruined by Mr. Wonderful. But I have one thing will you F tards stop calling them "SN197" it is S197 that is all carry on with the BS

pascal

LOL, you guys take the cake! (I do like Vertigo's post none the less)

I thought my section was bad and now Sonic starts his BS over there.
https://mustangforums.com/forum/4-6l...ml#post8241615
Ain't gonna let it happen though.