I changed the look around of my car this afternoon, raised the front a little over two inches and swapped the wide whites for mags and also the air cleaners. I plan on running it like this for awhile and need to pick up some rear (dare I say) radials. I remember a few posts about the truck tires but is there anything that doesn't look like a truck tire ? The rims are 8.5 wide and the old tires were 29 inch tall, those slicks are 14 X 32's, I know of a pair of drag radials (275/60/15) which are 28 tall and 11 sidewall. I was just looking for something that has an older appearence if you squinted hard enough...lol
Yep, ah kin 'see it'. It has some good styling cue's of a altered! If it sat higher.........Wild Willy like, bingo. She still beat's the snot outta a street rod. I like it!
Anyone runing a 265-70-15 with a picture ? I'm going crosseyed looking at all the specs on Tirerack.com
Here are two pictures of 265/70R15 on 8" steel smoothies. If you need me to take a different angle picture just let me know! Sorry about the ugly truck they are attached to!
Thanks, the height looks good suposed to be 29.5 and a section width of 10.8. There's about a 34.00 dollar difference between those and the shorter drag radials, I wish those were taller...
I want to pick up those drag radials but not sure if they'll look short, here's the same size on the car. What do you think of this size 275-60-15 that's on there ?
Get a set of m/t ET streets and smooth the side.. has the apperance of old slicks and are DOT appoved ....I like em.
See if this helps any... http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=53 I use this all the time with the students. Looks like you run out of options at about 29" with 15" wheel dia.
Really nice look with the slicks . . . but I definitely wouldn't run them on the street. More than a few guys lost some nice cars during the drag slicks on the street fad that hit in the late 50's. Even a foggy day will get you and when it rains? Nuff said there. Are you going to go with a narrower front tire? How wide are your wheels? I have a pair of 5" x 15" steelies on the front of my 31 and the 165R/80-15 tires have a 4 ½" tread width and are 25" tall Tires this size should work on up to a 6" wide wheel. Here's a pic of the 31's front wheels and tires on the 32. I ran em on the 32 for a while to see if I'd like a narrower tire an wheel on it. I do and am setting up a pair of 4 1/2" x 15" slot mags for it. This pic shows the older tires on a pair of 5 1/2" x 14" slot mags. Not bad, but could be better. Shown here, the same 5 1/2 x 14" slot mags and a somewhat narrower tire, but it still doesn't make it looks-wise.
Thanks, I ended up going with a set of 275/60/15's on the back about the size of the old L-60's. I liked the big extreem of the slicks but it just wasn't possible to run those on the street.
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