Just doing my part to reduce rotational mass...
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jlhoyt
GT Owner
Triheart7
GT Owner
KJD
GT Owner
Gorgeous!
I have to say I had my doubts, I'm not a huge wheel/thin tire guy in general.
But for this car and application, it looks amazing!
Congratulations for having the balls and willingness to pay the freight, you did very very well!
I have to say I had my doubts, I'm not a huge wheel/thin tire guy in general.
But for this car and application, it looks amazing!
Congratulations for having the balls and willingness to pay the freight, you did very very well!
DakotaGT
GT Owner
spartan
GT Owner
- Sep 1, 2005
- 704
Thanks for the kind words y'all. I am really happy with the way it turned out, and it looks awesome in person. I'm not sure what has the most impact, the wheels or the lowering (I used KW coil overs). Either way, it makes me smile every time I look at it.
With regard to rear tire diameter, I've tested the speedo against my navigation device and it is DEAD on. To my eye, the diameter looks very similar in the wheel well and when the two tires are lined up against each other. I like the extra wide rubber when the Heffner mods do their crazy boost thing. More on that later. Overall, the only downside I can see right now is that it was so dang expensive...as the T-Shirt says, I hope when I die my wife doesn't sell my car parts for the price I told her I paid for them...
With regard to rear tire diameter, I've tested the speedo against my navigation device and it is DEAD on. To my eye, the diameter looks very similar in the wheel well and when the two tires are lined up against each other. I like the extra wide rubber when the Heffner mods do their crazy boost thing. More on that later. Overall, the only downside I can see right now is that it was so dang expensive...as the T-Shirt says, I hope when I die my wife doesn't sell my car parts for the price I told her I paid for them...
nautoncall
GT Owner
- Apr 6, 2014
- 1,093
Glad I'm not the only one that does that. But mine keeps on with, "tell me the truth now tell me the truth!! ". So usually I start with the low number and then at least come up somewhere in between.
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I have to say, I was ordering HRE's for my SUV last week and had to ask them for a quote for the GT40 wheels.....I'm hooked because of you and will be the only person outside the US with such setup (according to HRE)...now trying to find a way to mitigate the tax/import duty implications for both sets....ouch
My wife could not tell you the model of more than half my cars....lol lol ....I seriously lucked-out!
I posted the difference of overall tire diameter, revs per mile, etc a few posts back. According to the tire calculator, your front diameter is .17 inches taller and your rear diameter is .93 inches shorter than than OEM. Were you able to lower the nose with your new coil-overs to make up for this difference? Rear revs per mile are 697 stock vs 720 new. According to the calculator if you're speedo reads 65 you're actually going about 63 but I believe when you say it's accurate. I have changed tire sizes on my F-150 and used GPS and it was spot on as well.
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