Tres Wright

I just ran across an interesting wheel option, look at the "2005 Mustang Wheel - Dante Designs":

http://www.v6mustangstuff.com/05wheels.htm

These wheels look just like the stock polished aluminum V6 mags. I really like the look of my wheels, but would love to have some fatter meats out back. It might be cool to keep the stockers on front and put these 17x9's out back with some bigger tires. Anyone know anything about these wheels? The look to match the stockers in appearance perfectly.

RedAlertlb

yea they look the same to me just a 17x9 might look good its kind of hard to tell

Tres Wright

They suggest a tire size of 275/40-17. That's almost 11" wide! The stock tires are 8 1/2". I'm not sure how the aspect ratio works out between this one and stock, I'm going to check that this evening.

rygenstormlocke

I considered those too in fact! I like them alot, though I would go with 275/50/17!

Tres Wright

Thanks for the info Rygen, do you think the 50's would fit OK? Is that what you've got? I can't seem to figure the sizes out, if the middle number is the ratio of height to width then on my stock tires (215/65-16) the sidewall should be 65% of 275 mm or 5.5". But when I measure them they have 4.5" sidewalls. What am I doing wrong? Is the sidewall number before inflation? It seems the tires tend to "squat" after they're installed & inflated.

This is what I measured on the stock tires:

Stock 215/65-16.... 25.75" high x 8.4" wide x 4.5" sidewall

The 275/40-17 is supposed to be 25.66" high which would be a 4.3" sidewall, pretty close to the stock sidewall it would seem, but again I don't trust my numbers [:@]

PS, I should have mentioned that what I'm looking for is height and sidewall as close to stock as possible. The swap would mainly be to give some extra width on the back tires for a little more aggressive look

cstigger04

Tres, whenever you get the answer that you seek please shoot me an e-mail...cstigger04@yahoo.com I too am contemplating doing this. thanks

GIDDEUP

All of your tire sizing answers can be found here.

http://www.1010tires.com/TireSizeCalculator.asp

justang05

if any of you get them, be sure to post some pics!

Tres Wright

Cool, thanks for the link! Based on that it does sound like the 275/50-17 matches the stock tire height pretty well. I'm pretty sure I'll be doing this, and I will of course post pics