[DeTomaso] Need help identifying wheels

[Sean Korb]

Thanks Garth!

The car pictured at http://sites.google.com/site/nwpantera/ is not mine but
it sure looks nice :)  I think he/she is running '17s up front.  The tire
cross section looks a bit small for the 9" wide wheel.

  The only thing I would add for my car is I did not have to use spacers,
but I have an early car so yours may be different.  Also, though the front
wheels are smaller and fill the wheel well pretty nicely, I would get a
collision between tire and lower control arm at full droop if the steering
wheel was at full lock.  Since that almost never happens to me while
driving, I assumed the risk; but be sure when fitting wheels and tires you
check at full jounce and full droop and lock to lock.  You don't want any
surprises there.  Again, our cars vary between each other, so what works for
me may not work for you.

sean

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Garth Rodericks <garth_rodericks at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> That's Sean Korb's Pantera. I've cc'd him on this reply, so he can answer
> any additional
> questions or provide more info.
>
> The rears are Ford Motorsport Cobra R wheels, but the fronts are 16"x8"
> Chinese repos. He
> got them on closeout from mustangtuning.com. He didn't like how the stock
> Rs fit on the
> front, and I found something smaller.
>
>
>
> Most people like their wheels pushed out towards the edge of the fenders,
> but Sean likes
>
> them tucked in like they are on the back. It's clear that you could get
> another inch and a
>
> half for width, but his tires are only 275 section, and he thinks they'd
> look funny with
>
> spacers. They're wider than the tires he had on his single slot Campys, and
> they hang on
>
> the car in about the same place. He says they're great on the street, and
> now he doesn't
>
> have to worry about hurting his original single slot Campys.
>
> More pics of his Pantera with the Cobra R wheels here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/47702694@N00/234187893/
>
> Also, contact "fordgt" in this thread on the PI board about his wheels:
>
> http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6450045562/m/9110018562?r=7290062872#7290062872
>
> Cheers!
> Garth
>
>


-- 
Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65, '68 Mustangs, '68 Cougar, '78 R100/7, '59 Austin A35, '71 Pantera #1382
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