Anyone running 15 x 8" Draglites with 4 1/2" BS on their Dart????

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I have a 67 Dart and have a set of Weld Draglites that are 15" x 8" with a backspace of 4 1/2". The car has stock spring location and stock width 8 3/4" rear with the big 11" x 2 1/2" drum brakes. If you have wheels with same measurements (don't have to be draglites) what size tires are you running and what clearances do you have?
 
duster360 said:
I have a 67 Dart and have a set of Weld Draglites that are 15" x 8" with a backspace of 4 1/2". The car has stock spring location and stock width 8 3/4" rear with the big 11" x 2 1/2" drum brakes. If you have wheels with same measurements (don't have to be draglites) what size tires are you running and what clearances do you have?
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p255 60 15 will be too tight wheel well to spring need to do spring relocation for them even with 5 1/2 b/s
more likely to get p235 60 15 in there...
 
That's what I was thinking, just needed some opinions. I was hoping to squeeze in a 245/60/15?
 
I have the same rear setup you do and have 15x7.5" Centerline Convo Pro's but a 225/60/15 tire and a 5" back spacing and no issues. See pic's.

I just learned this when I bolted up the front and they hit the upper control arm. I thought I had 15x7, I was wrong.....

They fit good in the rear, lots of room, someone rolled the rear fender, but there is a ton of room with my 225 and could likely afford 245.
 
I just put my 15 x 8 w/4.5" backspace wheels with 245/60/15 tires on, I had to roll the lip on mine as well but they fit. The leaf springs are shot. I think I am going to call Mancini racing and get a set of their XHD springs that have 1" of lift over stock to get just a little more clearance.
 
I am running 255/60-15's on 15x8 Ralley wheels with 4.5" of back spacing. I have approximately 1/2" of clerance to the springs on the tires and a littel more to the wheels. If I had a wheel with less back spacing that moved the wheel away from the spring I could have gotten a 275/60-15 under the car with no problems. I realize that Barracuda's have a bigger wheel well than a Dart but the springs are in the same place so a 4.5" back space wheel has clearance to the spring, your issue is going to be the actual wheel well and outer whell well lip.


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You should be able to get a 255/60 under there as prev. mentioned w/ a little finessing maybe...here's a pic of my 67 w/ stock spring loc and stock wheel lip (not trimmed) w/ 255/60's and 15x7's and 5" bs. Had to run a 3/16" spacer to get it away from the springs. Tires were just barely touching the spring clamps...oh and it had 002/003 SS springs on it..
 
I have Cragers on my 67 I believe there 245's not sure of the back space but I had to roll the lip of the fender to get it in the fronts are 15x6 and had to cut a 45* off the very bottom of the fender so it wouldnt rub. Ill get sizes when I return home.
 
You sure its an A body rear end? I thought the A bodies had a 2" X 10" brake drum.

I think you would be safe with a 245/60/15 based on my experiance. Anything narrower in a 60 series tire looks too short in my opinion. You may want to go to a 70 series if you go narrower than a 245 to fill out the wheelwell.

Also some wheel manufactures measure backspacing different my centerline drag wheels are advertised at 4-7/8" backspacing but they measure out to 4.5" in backspacing when you measure drum mounting surface to the inside tire bead on the wheel. I believe that is the most common way to measure.
 
zhandfull said:
Also some wheel manufactures measure backspacing different my centerline drag wheels are advertised at 4-7/8" backspacing but they measure out to 4.5" in backspacing when you measure drum mounting surface to the inside tire bead on the wheel. I believe that is the most common way to measure.
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I have never seen backspacing describe as anything but the distance from the mounting surface to the outside edge of the backside of the rim.
 
i belive thats my exact setup on the 73, don't remember the tire size but ill grab it later. 15x8 / 4.5 b/s and i think 245/50/15

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i did have to trim the fender lip though
 
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