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Re: Wheels & Tires

To: Larry <larry@larryembrey.com>
Subject: Re: Wheels & Tires
From: Jim Stuart <jimbb88@erols.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:15:14 -0400
Cc: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@colorado.edu>, Michael Hartwig <mhartwig@midsouth.rr.com>, Wake074@aol.com, mgb-v8@autox.team.net
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Reply-to: Jim Stuart <jimbb88@erols.com>
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I can believe the 225's in front, as there is lots of room there. I had a set of
205/60/14's  on 7" rims on my first V8 roadster, & it looked like I had lots of
room to spare in front.

Not so in the rear. The biggest I have actually seen was 215/60/14's on 7" rims
in the rear. It may be that 15" rims place the tire in a more advantageous
location, but to have any room at all for lateral movement- no pan hard rod- I
had to do the baseball bat flare on the fender & apply the very large
calibration hammer to the area of the rear axle bump stop just to fit my 205's.
This was with a narrower wire wheel C axle & small spacers to place the wheel in
the best possible location.

I would really like to see "how it was done" as Kurt would write in the
Newsletter.

Jim Stuart

Larry wrote:

> The proverbial can or Worms has been spilled, there are some many people
> trying so many things.  There is a thread going now about Ford rear axles in
> the V8 section of the UK MG site.  A gentleman has said he has 225's up
> front and 245's in rear.  I am in contact (via email) with him now trying to
> sort it all out...    I want to try and get the same size 225/50r15 all
> around on custom wheels 15x6or7, so am also trying to figure out offsets
> etc..


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