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Re: Lowest Gear For Street Tires
No "performance" cars have come with itty bitty shopping-cart wheels like 15s, or pizza-cutter wheels as narrow as 7", for over 30 years now.
Back "in the day" (early 70s for example) a pitiful 307 2-bbl could spin 14x7 wheels, with whatever gear it came with (2.73 to 3.08 was typical) and whatever tires. (205/75-14 was typical once they moved to that measurement system)
If you have a 6-cyl, you might be OK with what you're proposing. Otherwise, .... I'd recommend moving into the late 20th century, even if not quite the 21st, with your wheel selection. Consider AT THE VERY LEAST stock IROC or T/A type wheels at 16x8. Still altogether too weeeeeeeenie and tiny by modern standards, almost impossible to find actual "performance" tires for any more for such tiny crap, but still, will leave your 60s stuff in their dust.
Get REAL about wheels and tires, and then come back and we'll talk about gears.
Back "in the day" (early 70s for example) a pitiful 307 2-bbl could spin 14x7 wheels, with whatever gear it came with (2.73 to 3.08 was typical) and whatever tires. (205/75-14 was typical once they moved to that measurement system)
If you have a 6-cyl, you might be OK with what you're proposing. Otherwise, .... I'd recommend moving into the late 20th century, even if not quite the 21st, with your wheel selection. Consider AT THE VERY LEAST stock IROC or T/A type wheels at 16x8. Still altogether too weeeeeeeenie and tiny by modern standards, almost impossible to find actual "performance" tires for any more for such tiny crap, but still, will leave your 60s stuff in their dust.
Get REAL about wheels and tires, and then come back and we'll talk about gears.
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Re: Lowest Gear For Street Tires
Haven't we already been over this? https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/tran...ear-ratio.html
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