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echo: oldcars
to: LANDON ROBINSON
from: JACK SCHWENDENER
date: 1998-01-13 09:38:00
subject: Tires

LR> JS> I ran 225-75R15's on an old '69 Buick, although they may have been a
LR> JS> tad big ....
LR>BIG is what I want (on the back anyway).  I had some 30x9.5x15" light 
uck
I can't think of any reason why you'd want a tire like that, but you
could fit some P235-75R15s on a 6" rim. They're almost 29" tall.
LR> I want to
LR>turn the thing into one of those muscle car era street machines with the 
bac
LR>bumper about three/four feet off the ground.  Plus having big tires on the
For a muscle car look you need some really wide tires back there, like
a 295-60. Jacking it up just to get the rear end high doesn't look like
a muscle car, it just looks dorky ....
LR>back will up the final drive ratio to make the thing seriously launch at
No, it will kill it off the line, it makes the overall gearing higher,
(lower numerically)....
LR> JS> As I recall, those came with 7.75x14s, which translates to about a
LR>That size is what I think the manual had in it although it may have been a
LR>8.25x14.
I don't think they came with 8.25s, but I could be wrong ....
Jackson
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