Jim:
I think you are correct about the 15" rims allowing wider tires.
Also suspension height has a lot to do with it. The inside fender has a
bulge that the bump stop attaches to. This gets in the way at some ride
heights and with some 14" wheel/tire combinations.
I ran 15" x 5.5" Minator wheels with a 215/60 15 Tire on a
converted wire wheel late axle. There was enough clearance on the inside to
run without spacers, and enough outside so that with 3/4" of spacers there
was still lots of clearance to the fender lip. Careful when using long
studs and spacers. Mine came loose and I ended up almost walking home with
a destroyed wheel.
I don't recomend this setup as the steering was slow and handling
did not seem to be improved. I'm going back to 195/60 15 on my next car.
I do now have a set of knockoff 15 X 7" minilite repros that I'm
putting on the Sebring fendered GT. I've got to figure out suitable tires
for these.
Kelvin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Stuart [mailto:jimbb88@erols.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:15 PM
> To: Larry
> Cc: James Nazarian Jr; Michael Hartwig; Wake074@aol.com;
> mgb-v8@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Wheels & Tires
>
>
> All-
>
> 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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