My front tires will only sit straight ahead. No room to turn! Tubular A-arms from Global West, dropped spindles & disc brakes from Cl***ic Muscle( The Right Stuff components), Torque Thrust II 7x17 rims, 0 offset, 4" backspace, 225/55/17 American Cl***ic WW tires. Tires are 26.8 tall, tread 8", section width 9" - forgot to mention 3" drop springs I'm thinking the drop spindles & springs are putting tire too high in wheel well? Rear tires & wheels are the same size as the front with no clearance issues. Options might be 17" rims with 4 3/4 backspace ($355ea) 215/55/17 tires ($285 ea) Diff spindles ($230) 15 or 16" wheels & tires ($8-900) Any ideas, please!
On this wesbite, I'd recommend normal wheels and profile rubber. Cartwheels and low profile tires belong elsewhere...sound like a 'restomod' site might know more.
C'mon guys, don't kick me to the curb! I shaved my handles & emblems, had my bumpers made 1 piece, blue dot taillights, cat eyes for headlights, lake pipes, white interior...white walls I'm not a $200k Camaro, a restored parade car or a hydraulic nightmare-I gotta fit somewhere
My 63 Belair has 17" wheels, 215/45/17 front tires, air ride, no drop spindles and no clearance issues.
It appears I have a solution to my problem. I have a set of Chevelle spindles with 2"drop & OEM specs, a local parts store cross referenced calipers from a Caprice and it looks like the rotors I have will fit. Ball joints and tie Rod fit. Gained 3/4", which gives me clearance May have metric hoses to figure out still
The brake conversion probably uses chevelle rotors n S10 calipers which push each tire 7/8 out... Solution is to get brackets from scarebird.com he uses 73 Monty rotors n 90 celebrity calipers like 380$ (brackets rotors pads bearing seals all of it) to do the whole thing and retains factory track width.... I was sceptic on celebrity calipers but they have a 2.5 piston which will be very similar to what u are using now... Fought this same problem in the last few weeks this is an excellent way to correct tire rubbing issues if you don't want to run a factory wheel tire size combo and who can blame you for that... Good luck
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