295/65/15 tire size question

[cawley]

Your limiting factor for height is the front edge of the wheel arch. What's you axle centerline to front wheel arch measurement?

Well the front is 15 inches & the rear is 17 inches

 

[famous bob]

Driveshaft yes.

Weight transfer, in theory yes, in practice no. Trust me, tried and true, I've done it both ways and it won't affect the hookup of your car AT ALL. This is why I stretched my first car instead of moving it back. What a waste of time, money and resources. Never again. I'll spend my money elsewhere.

when we used to run the hemi (14 yrs) we had so much trouble trying to keep it hooked up, I wouldn`t even think about moving the wheels back. we did end up using 002-003 springs which moved the b body rear up 2 ". but had to reshape the front of the fender well, even on the 67 belvedere. those were 14x32`s and 16x32 1/2`s tho.

 

[roccodart440]

It would be interesting to scale a car in the stock location vs. 1.5" back.

 

[Unconventional]

I'm with Lime. Just can't get into the "All wheel no tire" look. I'm pondering using a B body rear end with 5 1/2" backspace wheel and those 30" tall tires. A 1" spacer in front of the front spring hanger should get me in the ball park.

 

[Unconventional]

And doing the math as far as spacing the rear end back for the driveline. 7 1/4 is 10" from axle to u joint and 8 3/4 is a shade over 12 1/4" axle to u joint. That should give plenty of driveline to play with. Am I missing anything?

 

[famous bob]

It would be interesting to scale a car in the stock location vs. 1.5" back.

the 1.5 back will change the weight on the rear , how much, I got no clue. If your fighting for traction tho, I wouldn`t even consider it .

 

[69_340_GTS]

Another thing to consider is gear ratio. For example, if you have 3.55 gears with 26" tires you'll need to swap to 4.10 gears with those 30" tires to keep the gear "ratio" about the same.

 

[cawley]

Another thing to consider is gear ratio. For example, if you have 3.55 gears with 26" tires you'll need to swap to 4.10 gears with those 30" tires to keep the gear "ratio" about the same.

mmm that's something to think about. I think I might just go on the safe rout & put on 275/60/15s

 

[famous bob]

mmm that's something to think about. I think I might just go on the safe rout & put on 275/60/15s

I ran 14x32`s on a 406 vega on the street w/ a 4:10 ford 9" rear, it was actually pretty good on the road. I could waste an xs11 Suzuki w/ it, a calway corvette, and a turbo porshe. altho we didn`t haver room to go over about a mile. much longer and I would think they would have passed me.