I have 2-sets of wheel adapters that will allow you to bolt up a set of 15inch slicks without having to grind the calipers and cut off the dust shield.

The beauty of these adapters is that you can use Pre-1997 style wheels like the Gen 1's and such.

15inch slicks hook harder and are much more affordable than 16's and up!

Let me know if anyone is interested.

$125.00 per set and this includes ground lug nuts for the mounting and chrome lug nuts for your slicks!

My truck has a 9inch under it and a boxed frame with adjustable 4-link.

I had one set on the truck and the other as a spare. Cost $300.00 a set to have custom made.

E-mail me at Mustangbadboy2002@yahoo.com

Worth every penny, cutting, grinding to make 15's fit just suck!

This will solve it in a hurry!

 

u got mail!

 

sounds dangerous, how far out does it have to space the rim?

 

It has to space them out at least 5/8" to clear the calipers. This truck is too heavy to start playing with spacers. Not to mention if they are just spacers(which are $24.00 from Jegs) you will need to add 3" ARP Wheel Studs to the front hubs and rear axles, in order to be safe and Legal(NHRA).

I will stick to the 16" variety when I get there.
joe

 

Wheel spacers are not dangerous. I have a friend who put newer Mustang wheels on his 65 and had to put spacers to make everyting fit. He runs 10's and has for years without ever having a problem. It's a solid peice of aluminum or steel for Christ's sake. What's going to fail?

 

I had them on the rear of my '01 Cobra... of course on any independent suspension, front or rear, they change the lever/fulcrum point on the suspension. On the Cobra that meant basically spacing the rims out further, allowing greater leverage on the suspension, bad wheel wear, squishy cornering, etc. Its not the same as just putting on larger rims, which maintain the same centerline over the hub. So for spacers on the rear/fixed axle, it won't hurt anything assuming they are strong enough not to break with the torque. But if you put them on the front, and did not have rims with a greater backspacing to maintain the centerline, you will have negative effects on the suspension geometry.

Oh... almost forgot to say, in before the lock because this should be on the Classifieds!

 

Let's see if I can explain this to you, without upseting you even more than you are...

First question: What were the length of the stock studs on that '65 Stang? I can gaurantee you they were longer than the stock length on the new F-150s and newer Mustangs.

Next. The spacers themselves are not necessarily the part that are dangerous.(Same theory as a Gun.) Combine a spacer, on studs that are too short to maintain sufficient hold on the threads of the lugs that are needed to race legal, and you are waiting for disaster. Welds, Bogarts, and other race-only rims, require the use of special lugnuts. Open-ended, and longer shank, which seat through the rim, and not on the rim. The spacers combined with thicker rim depth, and short studs are a recipe for disaster. Have you ever seen a 2000 Mustang, running low 12s, lose a front wheel, due to spacers and stock studs? I have, and its not pretty!!!

Spacers are a bandaid, and can be used, if the rest of the package is changed with it. Sure, the "chunk of steel" isn't going to fail, for Christ's sake. But the crappy studs you wrapped them on, will, sooner or later!

 

Who said I was upset? Yes the studs were aftermarket on the stang. It goes with reason that you'll have to take certain other precautions when doing this modification. I never told anyone to use the stock studs. Just because I'm a hillbilly doesn't mean I'm an idiot just kinda slow.....ummm, I really like them french fried potaters

 

With as much torque that gets generated, i would stay the hell away from these.

I ran H&R Spacers on my Cobra for open track, yet thats what they were designed for and had all ARP hardware. Kept the wheels even with the body.

 

Scott, have you tried them mustard biscuits? Umm.

 

Spacers are illegal for DOT use (at least here in NY they are) and illegal for NHRA use. Nuff said in my book.

 

I'll have to point his out to the NHRA tech inspectors that have been passing his car every weekend for the last five years.

 

Looks like they need to go back to tech training then

Putting peoples safety in jeopardy. Ever seen a wheel sheer off the axle while doing a burnout? Isnt a pretty site man.

 

Just because the tech inspectors don't know about it, doesn't make it legal. Tech doesn't make you pull a wheel off, it's your responsibility to know the proper safety guidelines and follow them. If I raced at the same track this guy does, and I knew about his spacers, you can bet I'd be the first one to protest his car to tech. Rules are rules, everyone has to follow them. Why should the rest of the racers be put at jeopardy because someone cheats the rules?

 

I've seen wheel studs sheared off by spacers. Not pretty when the wheel comes off at speed.