spring relo: offset vs. mini tub for handling?

ValiantOne said
Ah! Love it. That is genius. That makes my decision. Thank you 72blunblu.

Since I JUSTgot this thing drivable for the first time since last October (and still have much to shake down) I'm going to take the two 225/60/15s I have on cop rims and see if they will work up front. If so I'll get two more and put them on cop rims and stick them on the car to finish out the season.

In the meantime I will save my pennies for a spring offset, new springs (wanna ditch the super stocks) rear swaybar and new wheel tire combo (most likely in 18") for next year.

Now to start designing that combo.......... got to do some measuring and make a list of 1000 questions.... :D

You shouldn't have any real problems with the 225/60/15's on cop rims. Those are 15x7 and have a 4.25" backspace. I ran exactly that combo on my '74 Duster when it was still wearing the Duster fenders up front. I had to max out the adjustment on my fender to bumper braces, and I cut the 90* corner on the lower front corner of the wheel opening back at a 45* angle to have clearance when turning, but I was running pretty low even then.

DionR said
Perhaps another option might be to figure out what offset works on the front, buy 4 wheels that match and then build a rearend to work with that? If you didn't want to worry about spacers.

More for someone that might be thinking about a different rear axle anyway, rather than a guy that is happy with what he has and just wants new wheels and tires.

72bluNblu's method sounds very workable, just an idea.

If you were setting up a custom rear end it would be the thing to do, but obviously there's a lot of money involved there with custom axles and everything. All just to end up with a rear axle that's probably only about 20mm wider. 10mm is about the max width for a spacer I like to run, but if you get hubcentric spacers and use high quality wheel studs it's really not an issue. If you were doing an 8.8 conversion, or ordering a custom axle then it would make sense to set everything up for say a 30mm offset, because that would even give you the small amount of extra room you might need to run aftermarket disks up front later if you wanted. I run Dr. Diff's 13" cobra style kit up front, it adds about 5mm to the track width on each side. And it's a fairly popular offset for 18x9's, so you could use off the shelf rims more than likely.