Seems like for us Pro-Tourers it is a pain in the *** when it comes to rims and the gum that wraps them.
I am just about to build a 68 Impala Pro-Touring Car on a Jake´s Rod Shop full perimeter subframe with C6-IFS and 9"rearend.
Du to the turbocharged 565 stroker I plan to build for that car, I really need some tires to hook.
I want to go with the widest possible on 20´s or 22´s.
At the same time we build my friends Pro-Touring-Sedanette and for him we need 22´s in any case, even bigger in the rear.
For the rims:
Unless you are to spend 4-5k for rims alone you get nothing that fits.
I was looking to coys altough most of there rims are not that beautiful but the owner of Coys told me that that rims are not in intendet to put real torque and horses on, anyways.
I would need rims that are availeable in 20x10 for the front and 20 / 22x14 or slightly bigger.
The style should be Vintage like Torq Thrust II´s, Hopsters and so on
Plus, thy need to be able to handle real Hot Rod-Performance, we all do not build 220HP Cars
For the tires:
Most of the interesting tires are to small like the MT ET Drag and so on.
335 is the widest and, if I remeber right, only on 18, on 20 it is 305 or 315.
I love the Pirelli P Zero with its 405mm but in that case, only in 24, that drives me crazy.
I saw that there are tires with numbers like 29x18R20LT that looks interesting but if I cannot read the size how can I order, I do not even now what rims they need.
I added some pics for you to know what I am after, but I dont know the sizes, might be that they are only 18´s.
Oh-not to forget, the tires side wall should not be too high or the wheel would be too big and would look ugly at the same time.
The tires on the black Buick in the attachments are quite ok but sidewall could also be 10-20 percent less.
Ps: I love the profile of the ET street radials
Greatful for any hint
I am just about to build a 68 Impala Pro-Touring Car on a Jake´s Rod Shop full perimeter subframe with C6-IFS and 9"rearend.
Du to the turbocharged 565 stroker I plan to build for that car, I really need some tires to hook.
I want to go with the widest possible on 20´s or 22´s.
At the same time we build my friends Pro-Touring-Sedanette and for him we need 22´s in any case, even bigger in the rear.
For the rims:
Unless you are to spend 4-5k for rims alone you get nothing that fits.
I was looking to coys altough most of there rims are not that beautiful but the owner of Coys told me that that rims are not in intendet to put real torque and horses on, anyways.
I would need rims that are availeable in 20x10 for the front and 20 / 22x14 or slightly bigger.
The style should be Vintage like Torq Thrust II´s, Hopsters and so on
Plus, thy need to be able to handle real Hot Rod-Performance, we all do not build 220HP Cars
For the tires:
Most of the interesting tires are to small like the MT ET Drag and so on.
335 is the widest and, if I remeber right, only on 18, on 20 it is 305 or 315.
I love the Pirelli P Zero with its 405mm but in that case, only in 24, that drives me crazy.
I saw that there are tires with numbers like 29x18R20LT that looks interesting but if I cannot read the size how can I order, I do not even now what rims they need.
I added some pics for you to know what I am after, but I dont know the sizes, might be that they are only 18´s.
Oh-not to forget, the tires side wall should not be too high or the wheel would be too big and would look ugly at the same time.
The tires on the black Buick in the attachments are quite ok but sidewall could also be 10-20 percent less.
Ps: I love the profile of the ET street radials
Greatful for any hint