We'll see if this thread has legs. i know, I know. Some members do not like this topic.
My humble thought is some people who love C's too have honest questions and come here for help. Or, they have struggled by trial and error, got it to work, and wanna help somebody else out. Plus somebody debating fixing up a C, maybe they see something they wanna try. Might just save a C or two from oblivion.
There are dozens of questions a month -- What wheels and tires can fit my C-body?
The forum has hundreds of posts on this, sprinkled among thousands of threads. This will always be true .. still maybe we have a thread where a lot that stuff is memorialized in one place?
If any of you folks can help (like we crowd-sourced the "what is a C Body" spreadsheet that we did a few years back), we can put this information in one thread -- for anybody interested.
"Rules" (please and thank you) to help it be useful:
1. Picture of C-Body with wheels/tires - this is kinda the whole point
2. Wheel size (diameter & width), and backspacing
3. Tire size, e.g., metric radial, old-style alpha numeric radial, bias ply
4. Be Accurate: may be your car, maybe something you found on internet
5. Known issues, e.g., interference with suspension parts, body parts, etc
6. Known adaptations, e.g, needed air shocks, special lug nuts, spacers, etc
I am going to go through the site search function and try to find stuff already posted .. appreciate anybody's help with that -- stuff you posted, saw somewhere.
Also, I own a few C's, as a many of you do, where we have used different OEM and aftermarket wheel/tire combinations/sizes that were not on the car from the factory.
Thanks for your participation. Hope we can make it interesting. I will make a chart and update with examples of what seems to work and what doesnt.
I'll start with one of mine. 1971 Newport, 235/70R-15 tires, 15x8 wheels with 4.0 inch backspacing. Stock front disk/rear drum. No interference, no adaptations.
My humble thought is some people who love C's too have honest questions and come here for help. Or, they have struggled by trial and error, got it to work, and wanna help somebody else out. Plus somebody debating fixing up a C, maybe they see something they wanna try. Might just save a C or two from oblivion.
There are dozens of questions a month -- What wheels and tires can fit my C-body?
The forum has hundreds of posts on this, sprinkled among thousands of threads. This will always be true .. still maybe we have a thread where a lot that stuff is memorialized in one place?
If any of you folks can help (like we crowd-sourced the "what is a C Body" spreadsheet that we did a few years back), we can put this information in one thread -- for anybody interested.
"Rules" (please and thank you) to help it be useful:
1. Picture of C-Body with wheels/tires - this is kinda the whole point
2. Wheel size (diameter & width), and backspacing
3. Tire size, e.g., metric radial, old-style alpha numeric radial, bias ply
4. Be Accurate: may be your car, maybe something you found on internet
5. Known issues, e.g., interference with suspension parts, body parts, etc
6. Known adaptations, e.g, needed air shocks, special lug nuts, spacers, etc
I am going to go through the site search function and try to find stuff already posted .. appreciate anybody's help with that -- stuff you posted, saw somewhere.
Also, I own a few C's, as a many of you do, where we have used different OEM and aftermarket wheel/tire combinations/sizes that were not on the car from the factory.
Thanks for your participation. Hope we can make it interesting. I will make a chart and update with examples of what seems to work and what doesnt.
I'll start with one of mine. 1971 Newport, 235/70R-15 tires, 15x8 wheels with 4.0 inch backspacing. Stock front disk/rear drum. No interference, no adaptations.
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(just havin fun with ya Dave)
