What have you done to your mustang today?

[claudermilk]

Looks like a fun show.

I spent the day driving the snot out of mine up & down Angeles Crest Highway. Very light traffic (surprised, plus 95% of the slower people got out of the way promptly), on mostly perfect new pavement (not even striped yet). That was a good day.

 

[BleedinBlue]

Dropped it off at the shop for the week.

 

[Saleen304]

Engine finally done and car is running.

 

[travelers]

Nice car show, looks like some not seen very offend cars...

As for your on ramp run, the last time I did 80 on a on ramp I got a ticket from a NJ officer..

 

[sidvicious]

Engine finally done and car is running.

 

[UltraKla$$ic]

Put 1" hubcentric spacers on all 4 corners to bring the OEM wheels out to the edge of the fenders.

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

AFTER

dem PHAT hips doe!!!!!!

 

[Rob72]

Darren, don't you realize that you're going to buy new wheels and tires next month lol!

 

[Doug M]

Looks great! I hate the narrow look of mine as well.

 

[eighty6gt]

I wonder why the oem wheels are tucked in so much.. I've always heard things like clearance for tire chains! Good grief. Next year I'm doing 1" on rear and 7/8" on front.

 

[Pentalab]

I wonder why the oem wheels are tucked in so much.. I've always heard things like clearance for tire chains! Good grief. Next year I'm doing 1" on rear and 7/8" on front.

During the wet season / fall / winter, IMO, you want them tucked in. I use the oem rims + rain tires from mid oct to mid april. Then swap to the wider rims + correct offsets for the next 6 months.

 

[eighty6gt]

Heh, I don't really have a wet season. Winter from November to the end of April. Dry the rest of the time.

 

[Norm Peterson]

I wonder why the oem wheels are tucked in so much.. I've always heard things like clearance for tire chains! Good grief. Next year I'm doing 1" on rear and 7/8" on front.

Why not just get wider wheels instead? In most cases the S197 will take all the way up to 11" wide wheels with little or no modification required (see sig).

I have always felt there was something "fake" about spacing narrow OE wheels out to try to make the car look like it has wide wheels on it - having wide wheels that completely fill up the wheelwells is the basic message that a flush appearance is trying to convey. I'd maybe expect this on a low-buck Honda . . .


Just to sort of stay on the official topic, I waxed most of the Mustang today. Cleaner wax and then a regular wax. Ran out of energy because I'd done my wife's Subie first, so I've got the doors and about half of each rear quarter left for tomorrow. Every time I do this job I get reminded of how much work it is and how little satisfaction I get out of it . . . . . . couple days from now it'll still be shiny but I won't even notice.

Norm

 

[AnotherS197GT]

Why not just get wider wheels instead? In most cases the S197 will take all the way up to 11" wide wheels with little or no modification required (see sig).

I have always felt there was something "fake" about spacing narrow OE wheels out to try to make the car look like it has wide wheels on it - having wide wheels that completely fill up the wheelwells is the basic message that a flush appearance is trying to convey. I'd maybe expect this on a low-buck Honda . . .


Just to sort of stay on the official topic, I waxed most of the Mustang today. Cleaner wax and then a regular wax. Ran out of energy because I'd done my wife's Subie first, so I've got the doors and about half of each rear quarter left for tomorrow. Every time I do this job I get reminded of how much work it is and how little satisfaction I get out of it . . . . . . couple days from now it'll still be shiny but I won't even notice.

Norm

Not everyone wants new wheels. I ran the OEM Bullitt wheels spaced on my car because I really like the Bullitt wheels and I wanted clearance for Brembos. The only reason I changed out my wheels is because I was tired of dealing with the spacers and finding a shop that could balance my wheels without the weights hitting my brakes. I'd have kept the spacers and the wheels if it wasn't for that problem. I wasn't trying to give off the illusion of wide wheels, just wanted something that looked much better than the factory offset.

I had also planned on getting the rears widened in the future. Who knows, maybe I'll hold onto the spacers and do it down the road. I'm still having a hard time bringing myself to post the Bullitts for sale lol.

 

[weather man]

^^^^ Agree.

 

[Norm Peterson]

As Pentalab already brought up, when you're driving in the rain, or down dirt roads, or in winter conditions involving snow/slush/etc., you probably don't want your tires throwing all sorts of debris up at your car's paint.

Ford has to design for those conditions, even if they don't happen to apply to eighty6 or any other individual. A too-flush wheel positioning would soon cost Ford sales by the people who realize what would happen, who would at worst have learned that lesson the hard way once or twice previously.


Years ago, the similar fad was "chrome reversed wheels". That was when cars had their wheels really set back into the wheelwells. The S197 wheel location has nothing on these for being buried inside the metal.

I do need to get to the rest of that waxing task.


Norm

 

[GallopingFord]

7/8" spacers w/ Brembos FTW.

I planned on widening the wheels because it was the offset that killed it for me, but now I'm in the position to sell the car and move on.

 

[o2sys]

Oh so that's the reason....always wondered why. Even the high end exotics don't offer flush wheel fitment.

 

[Strengthrehab]

Got it ready to be repo'd since it is in the Ex's name and she filed bankruptcy on it. Had to clean my shit out of it.

 

[Scott]

Installed a backup camera yesterday.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Got it ready to be repo'd since it is in the Ex's name and she filed bankruptcy on it. Had to clean my shit out of it.

Wow, suckage.

Any chance you'll be able to buy it from the bank? Would you want to?



Done with the waxing until . . . whenever.


Norm