16"x8" rims! Now I'd like to see that............:-)
Murray Arundell
Brisbane - Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: <frank.walker@insurquote.com>
To: <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: Wheels & Tires
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> on my 71 MGB I am running 245ZR45-16 front and rear. I narrowed a 82
> corvette rear suspension and enlarged the wheel wells inside the car. I am
> using 16X8 rims from a camero.
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> Jim Stuart <jimbb88@erols.com>@autox.team.net on 06/27/2000 04:15:14 PM
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> Please respond to Jim Stuart <jimbb88@erols.com>
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> Sent by: owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net
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> To: Larry <larry@larryembrey.com>
> cc: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@colorado.edu>, Michael Hartwig
> <mhartwig@midsouth.rr.com>, Wake074@aol.com, mgb-v8@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Wheels & Tires
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> All-
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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.
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> 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.
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> I would really like to see "how it was done" as Kurt would write in the
> Newsletter.
>
> Jim Stuart
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> Larry wrote:
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> > 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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