RideTech 33 Ford

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Bret: You said that the tire is wider than FFR originally designed for the car. If I understand correctly (and I may not be, I am still learning), if you did not increase the offset of the wheel to compensate, would this not increase the increase the scrub radius, making the car harder to steer and increasing the stress on the steering components?



This is the reason I am redesigning the front suspension on my Mustang II project (with Ride Tech coil overs of course.) Which reminds me, I need to get a CAD model for the front shock and coil over, the 5" travel shocks I bought for the rear are too long for the front.

[bret]

Bret: You said that the tire is wider than FFR originally designed for the car. If I understand correctly (and I may not be, I am still learning), if you did not increase the offset of the wheel to compensate, would this not increase the increase the scrub radius, making the car harder to steer and increasing the stress on the steering components?

This is the reason I am redesigning the front suspension on my Mustang II project (with Ride Tech coil overs of course.) Which reminds me, I need to get a CAD model for the front shock and coil over, the 5" travel shocks I bought for the rear are too long for the front.

Ha! Good call! Actually...we lucked out a little on this one. The Speedline wheels [that I found on ebay] hit the Baer calipers, so we built a hubcentric spacer of appropriate thickness to compensate for the extra width and offset in that wheel. In the end the tire centerline is .560" inboard from the SAI/ground intersection. Opinions vary, but that dimension is within a decent range for street tires and the weight of the vehicle. It was about 2" before we built that spacer.