hey guys i just bought a 2004 irs to put in my car after i gernaded the rear in my car thursday morning. supposedly its a complete drop out assembly and i know i need to change the exhaust and the yoke on it, but what i was woundering was can i run a 17x10.5 deep dish bullitt wheel with 315/35/17s on it and clear everything in the rear as far and wheel openings, cradel bolts, control arms, and brake lines and those sorts of things ? your help will be greatly appreciated

 

yes you can run a 10.5 inch wheel with no trouble. watch the clearance of the tire on the IRS bolts. you will see the ones i am talking about as they will be right by the sidewall of the tire. you may need to change them our for ones with a low profile head on them. they are only a few bucks. pretty sure you can get them on maximum motorsports.

 

ok. does it bolt in with the same bolts as are used to bolt the solid axel control arms into the body

 

i am not 100% on that. I seem to remember the hardware being slightly different and also seem to remember there being 2 sets of holes that are there one for the IRS and one if you are using a solid axle. I did the swap the other way from IRS to solid axle. Maybe someone else can chime in to confirm what i seem to remember or say i am off. I did this swap several years ago.

 

ok thanks . the swap is being dont cuz the 7.5 in my car gernaded

 

How were you able to grenade that rear, with v6 power? lol

 

the 7.5 inch rear was the same rear in the 4 banger mustang. they are very weak . the left carrier bearing exploded and actually split the cage in half and chipped every other ring gear tooth and . with the cage being split it ate up the bearing race so i needed a replacement axel housing too . thursday morning it went bang and felt like the rear was falling out of the car but in all actuallity it had .300+ clearence between the ring and pinion gears

 

why do you want the IRS though over an 8.8?

 

it's traction not power that destroys rear ends

A common debate irs vs. sra but IRS feels/handles better. No matter if it's a weaker design or not. The key is to them lasting is knowing how to adapt your driving to fit the IRS.

 

as far as i know nobody else in the v6 community has one