HemiMark
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Can anyone tell me what is the tallest tire I can use on a 68 Dodge Dart? Is 26 to 28 inches possible?
1968 DART how tall front tire??
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younggun2.0
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I have a 26” tire up front on my 67 dart
Totally agree.
Up to about 26" tall you can make a lot of tire/rim combinations work. The 275/35/18's I have on my Demon clone are 25.6" tall, but they're 275's so I still had to do some work on the lower front corner of the wheel opening. I know GmachineDartGt used to run 255/40/18's on the front of his car, those are 26" tall and still plenty wide
The further you go past 26" tall the narrower tires will have to be and you'll want them and the further toward the spindles they'll need to be. The further out toward the fender the wheel gets the less you'll get away with for height.
But like autoxcuda said, we need to know more. If you talking about front runners on 15x4's you can go a lot taller than if you're trying to get 255's in there.
HemiMark
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I'm using 15’ Cragars.
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HemiMark
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I just looked at the Cragar web site. Back spacing is 2 1/4"
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HemiMark
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My Lord, Its like I'm retarded.
15' Cragars, 4.5' wide with 2 1/4' back spacing. Yes, I am looking to run narrow tires that are highway safe. Radial for sure. Sorry for all the vague and scattered post's!
15' Cragars, 4.5' wide with 2 1/4' back spacing. Yes, I am looking to run narrow tires that are highway safe. Radial for sure. Sorry for all the vague and scattered post's!
Ugh, that’s like a -12 offset. So even with a 175/80/15 you’d sit pretty close to the fender. You’d have an extra .4” to the fender compared to my 275’s. It’s plenty for clearance at the top of the fenders, but the front lower corner might still be pretty close when turning the wheels. A 175/80/15 would be 26” tall too. That size should work, but I don’t know how much taller than that you could go with those rims. Probably a little bit taller, but I wouldn’t count on a lot especially if you don’t want to trim the flange on the backside of that fender corner.
mopowers
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I've run 215/65s and 205/75s on my 68. Both fit fine. The wheel I used was a stock 15" steelie- 5.5" wide if I remember correctly, but don't quote me on that.
Problem is that even a 205/75/15 isn't supposed to be mounted on anything narrower than a 5" wide rim. And the stock steelie's have a +6 offset, so, they have significantly more backspace than the OP's chosen rims and will be further inboard, which allows for a taller tire.
mopowers
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Just sayin what worked on my car. There are plenty of options out there for the OP to run a tall front tire, especially if it's a skinny one.
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