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Re: Wheels for a Spitfire

To: triumphs@autox.team.net, Mark J Bradakis <mjb@spitfire.cs.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: Wheels for a Spitfire
From: Ed Burger <eburger@sagelink.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:07:45 -0500
References: <199611150902.CAA22355@triumph.cs.utah.edu>
Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> You should have no trouble fitting 185/60-13 tires on 6" wheels under the
> early roundtail body, given that the wheels have the proper offset.  The rears

Can you fit 7" tires in the rear?

> are not as much of a problem as the fronts.  In the front of the car, too big
> tires will foul the firewall when turning, especially if the front suspension
> bushings are shot, and the control arms have worked their way to the back of
> the mounting brackets.

What is to big for the fron though?  I don't want any rubbing, even in a 
full turn.

Ed

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