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Offline WVUFELLA

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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2007 - 09:39:50 AM »
has anyone with 17" wheels noticed a difference  with a 3.91 rear??? My brother had a 391 in his dart with 14or 15 inch wheels and was running real hard at 50-60 mph i was thinking with bigger wheels you might notice a difference??? just wondering




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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2007 - 09:51:54 AM »
I don't think there would be a big difference. It just depends on how tall the tire is on the wheel.  The taller the tire, the lower the RPM.
For instance, if you took a 15" x 30" tall tire from a truck and put it on your 'CUDA your RPMs would be alot lower then if you had a 17" by 26" tall tire

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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2007 - 06:06:00 PM »
I don't think there would be a big difference. It just depends on how tall the tire is on the wheel.  The taller the tire, the lower the RPM.
For instance, if you took a 15" x 30" tall tire from a truck and put it on your 'CUDA your RPMs would be alot lower then if you had a 17" by 26" tall tire

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Like stated rim size doesn't determine anything, it is the overall tire diameter
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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2007 - 11:17:00 PM »
I think they look good on the Chally. :cheers:
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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2007 - 06:24:23 AM »
Personally, I don't like wagon wheels on muscle cars, too ricey.  I'd go with 15" or 16" wheels tops.

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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #20 on: February 28, 2007 - 06:01:14 PM »
I think they look great on there - If you decide to take them off and sell them let me know. My muscle car looks great with that style of rim.

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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2007 - 07:31:11 PM »
I think they look great on there - If you decide to take them off and sell them let me know. My muscle car looks great with that style of rim.
Yes, I plan on sell them, I going with polished 18" wheels.

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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #22 on: March 01, 2007 - 11:11:05 AM »
Personally, I don't like wagon wheels on muscle cars, too ricey.  I'd go with 15" or 16" wheels tops.

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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #23 on: March 01, 2007 - 01:09:46 PM »
If my black cuda looks ricey with these 17x8 retro style wheels, I'll move to Japan. :lol:

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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #24 on: March 01, 2007 - 01:24:40 PM »
the pics are fine.. those wongon wheel rims with the round thoothpick spokes are the ones I thought PG was talking about...sorry don't care fro those on any Mopar I can think of...short of the 20's/30's
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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2007 - 05:55:20 PM »
I love the Coys rims they look great.
I am looking at getting a set of 18" X 9.5 with 5.5 BS for the rear and 18 x 8  4.5 BS for the fornt this week
Just trying to figure out the back spacing

What is the rim size of rim and back spacing on your black cuda
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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2007 - 07:28:12 PM »
Ya know, with all the popularity of big rims on SUVs, there are a number of 17 and 18 tires that are available in in 45 and 50 series profiles. They will help keep the tire proportions in line with more classic wheels.

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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2007 - 09:56:12 AM »
Another thread talked about sway bars hurting you at the track. At first this confused me but then I remembered the default idea of 'the track' around here is 1/4 mile at a time. I think of the track as having two drag strips... the front straight and the back straight.

This is my idea of a Challenger;



Currently, this is my idea of cool for wheels and they're not too expensive either:


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Re: 17" Foose wheels on my Chally.
« Reply #28 on: April 14, 2007 - 03:51:03 PM »
Another thread talked about sway bars hurting you at the track. At first this confused me but then I remembered the default idea of 'the track' around here is 1/4 mile at a time. I think of the track as having two drag strips... the front straight and the back straight.

This is my idea of a Challenger;



Currently, this is my idea of cool for wheels and they're not too expensive either:





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BlackCuda, I think your cars look great. They all seem to be done with taste. Personally I'm running 17"s out of necessity and $$$ 15" tires that grip good are about 175-250 each where as a "good" tire for track days is about 120-150. These said 15" tires wear quickly because they are race tires. Also I want big brakes. I'm running a 13" rotor up front and a 12" rotor out back.