Nice car are those foose nitrous II's?

 

you have a pic of that mod??? cant see them in the pic

 

My car is heavily modded, but I didn't build it for anyone else, I built it for me, so wheel size, etc is a personal choice. If you like the look of 19in rims, nothing else matters.

As long as your OD is less than 26" and the width is not much more than stock, any wheel/tire combo will work.

If backspacing is too high or tire is too wide (or both), you will indeed hit your fender on bumps at high speeds. You will also hit the fender hard enough to stop the car if you try to back & turn out of a sloped driveway. This could be really embarrassing if you just want to make a 3 point turn and your date is in the pass seat.

Personally, when a car is 99.9% classic stock and has one really high profile modern modification, it looks weird, like a classic with triple plastic wiper arms. It's always safer to modify closer to the decade your car was built. Everything on my car is something I could have put on in 1969, but that's just me.

A wheel requiring tires narrower than 50 series shouldn't be on the freeway. those really thin tires heat up faster and are more dangerous at high speeds.

I think the big wheel fad on ALL cars will subside. 17" rims will be the norm on modern cars IMO, unless you have a giant SUV.

Also, wider front tires require more effort to turn when stopped, like when you're parrelel parking. Super wide tires will apply more stress to the stock power steering pump, and if you have manual steering, parking with fat front tires is a hand-over-hand bitch.

FWIW, different front and back sizes will also disallow any tire rotation, although it's been said that modern tires can be rotated side-to-side.

Show us pics when it's done. Good luck.

CP

 

I don't think big wheels on modern cars is a fad that going to go away. Modern cars are constantly increasing in weight and power which require bigger brakes which means bigger wheels. It may be a fad putting big wheels on older cars but I don't see it ending anytime soon. Also rim's have become pretty cheap over the years, you can pick up a set of those black 18x9 FR500's for $399 so you're not out much if you decide to swap back to a 17 later.

 

Time will tell as far as new cars are concerned. Limitations on CO2 emission and pressures to improve fuel economy ought to at least slow down the weight gain trend. Outside of fairly serious open-tracking there really isn't any braking performance-based need for the 2010 Mustang to have 19" or the new Camaro to have 20's, it's just an image/appearance thing at this point. Must be that all the posers want people to think they're driving pre-production concept cars?

With the older cars, it could ultimately end up that there won't be very many choices between Coker Tire's maintenance of tire sizes already obsolete (or soon to be rendered so based on low sales volume) and simply too big for any semblance of period-correctness. I hope not, and although I also hope that 17's don't eventually end up becoming that scarce I'm feeling less than 100% confident about it.

Ron S pulled off putting 18" on that road-race Mustang. And somehow I'm not surprised - anybody who welds up his own mufflers from scratch because nothing store-bought will fit in the space available is talented way past where the vast majority of us stand.


Norm

 

My DD came from the factory with 225/45-18 front and 255/40-18 rear and there is a factory option for 225/40-19 front and 255/35-19 rear. It's also capable of reaching the 155mph speed limiter. AND it has no spare tire (from the factory - no room).

It's all anecdotal but modern low profile tires are very capable.

 

Can anyone provide a link with more pics and info on this car? I would like to know what suspension (and drop) he is running and with what size tires/rims. Looks beautiful.

And to the original poster, hope you figured out the answer to the original question about your personal car. I cant help you but good luck on the search, sounds like you need it lol.

 

That car was a featured car in popular hot rodding and is owned by Kevin McAnally. The front rims were 18x9 with 36mm offset that were narrowed 1" the rears are 18x9 with a 24mm offset. The front tires are 245/40/18 and the rear are 275/40/18. I don't think there was a whole lot of modifications done to fit the wheels. I think the lips were rolled and that's it. I don't think it has an aftermarket suspension either. The springs were cut to lower the front dont know about the rear.

 

Here are some more pics.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...y/IMG_4159.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...y/IMG_4156.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...y/IMG_4153.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...y/IMG_4170.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...y/IMG_4163.jpg