The bullits have alot of negative(positive) offset, I can't remember which is which, but the spacers were required to get the wheels to clear the spindle up front, and in the back it was to clear the inside of the wheel well, IE, I had to move the wheels out toward the skirts. mine looks almost identical becides the tail lights and it looks like your hood has something done to it paint wise but I cant tell. Was that a factory thing or just because of the added weight on the front? I would love to see some more pics of your car. Whats the deal with the spacers? did you have to put spacers on them because of the hub size? which engine do you have? I have kind of noticed that the birds with the 430's seam to sit a little lower than most. I drive it pretty easy, I like the way yours sits. I need to get some new, better photos of her I guess. I am happy with how it looks considering my investment was in the spacers and tires.
Here is my 58 rolling on factory ford 17x8 bullits. Most of the time, I don't like wheels on older cars bigger than 17" up front and 18" in the rear, but that is just me. Personally I think the squarebird, with a nice lowered stance can run the 20s and still look good because it is a big low slung car. I have friends running 20x8 and 20x10 on their 56 shoeboxes and they have had no problems, but I have to say, they don't "drive" their cars like I probably would. I had them re-hooped to 17x10 and now have them on the back That being said I have managed to bend two rims on my olds, and at that time I was running 17x8 with 245x45 tires on the front. I tend to drive on the "hard" side, IE, I don't drive any of my cars easy.
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The only thing that worries me is its kind of a heavy car and with a 30 or 35 series tire thats not much between the road and the wheel.Well, it all depends on how you like to drive the car. The wheels im looking at are 20x8 for the front and 20x10 in the rear. I have a 15x8 on there now and don't have any issues but I can remember what size tire off the top if my head.
Im not to fond of the convertibles, pardon the pun but it looks like something is missing. Those would look even better if they were on a hard top.And the car was a different color. Some people prefer how the correct tire fills the wheel well) etc don't concern you and you just want the tire to physically work as a tire, altho the F70s on my car did rub in a few spots very slightly and they're very close in size to the radial.Thats kind of the look im going for. It's a suitable replacement if accuracy, correctness, looks (subjective. The section width is about 1/3" wider, the tread width is over 1 1/4" wider and the diameter is over an inch smaller on the radial. I think it's one of those things that was published on a chart of "good enough for the average Joe" conversions when radials were getting common and it's just been propogated since then. The commonly held idea that a 205 75 r15 is the equivalent replacement for a 6.70 15 is just not correct. If I remember, it was reading around 65 when I was really doing about 50. Previously, with f70 15s on it when I got the car (about 27" diameter), the speedometer was off by a lot. I have them on my 55 and the speedometer reads fairly accurate with original speedo gears. Vintage style reproduction 6.70 15s are listed as 28.58". maybe from more modern trailer tire sizes. I'm not sure where the diameter for 6.70 15 of 27.5" came from. The original 7.50 x 14 are around 27" in outer diameter, whereas the recommended 205/75R14 radials to replace them only have an outer diameter of 26.1"-26.3" - so they are again around 3% smaller than original.Īs far as fender skirt rub and possible solutions, a good article is here: On the other hand for the '57's like mine, there's not as good a correspondence for radial replacements. A 205/70R15 however will have an outer diameter of only 26.3" so around 1" smaller in diameter (about a 4% difference). The 205/75R15's have a diameter of around 27.1", so that's a pretty close match. According to info I found, the 6.70 x 15 standard on '55's have an outer rolling diameter of around 27.25" - 27.5" depending on the manufacturer. However, the other thing to consider is the total tire diameter. exact same sectional width etc., the 205/70 may flex a little less than the 205/75 - because its shorter sidewall height will make it stiffer - that's what you buy lower profile tires for, right?
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