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Thanks Roy, I have checked them out.  Friend is considering the minilites.  I inquired as to the best size.

Intellectual curiosity drives me to the question does anyone know what happened to Mr. Schmidt?  Would be nice to get a set of his now defunct torque thrust rims.  It is unfortunate he is not in business anymore.  Retired I guess?

Totally distracted and no time to add anything meaningful and creative.  Preparing for a motion to quash and suppress for hearing tomorrow on a DUI case.  I have a shot. 

Quote from: Side-Oilers on February 13, 2024, 12:35:12 AM
^^ All fun and games with nitro/hydrazine until your rods end up in the next county.

Interesting article on hydrazine.  Just the name alone is cool.  Could be a good title to a story.
https://www.dragzine.com/news/flashback-friday-the-story-of-the-leathal-fuel-called-hydrazine/

"Lakes era racers who experimented with H found that a stock 90 horsepower flathead would pump out better than 300 horsepower simply by sucking this stuff through its Stromberg. These same racers also discovered Hydrazine's major drawback for practical use. After running it through an engine, the carbs would start to cake up with a substance that resembled soap flakes. This nasty little by product was a shock sensitive explosive called the Methazodic Salt of Hydrazinium Acid, and was the result of allowing vapors from the Nitro/Hydrazine mixture to condense in a closed environment. Right, never mind this stuff will throw your crank on the ground after just a couple of runs, but if you happen to tap the carb with a wrench, it'll blow your face off. Let's go racing!"

Quote from: FL SAAC on February 12, 2024, 11:28:18 PM
Mr E this thought just came to me, write a song about the YEAR 2066

let me give you an idea on the album cover and  the lyrics, you as a writer, poet, artist extraordinaire finish it

Well here goes

In the year 2066, if man is still alive

If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565

I'll have to think about that one.

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on February 12, 2024, 02:35:45 PM
He needed to tip in a little Hydrazine - then he would have won a race.

Perhaps. I looked it up.  That's rocket fuel right?

An original paranormal story: Mr. Nitromethane

Runs 13 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdwp-Bl06U&t=

And yes, I know that 427s had single overhead cams. 427 SOHC right?  I made up the two cam idea.  It's fiction.  And yes, no way a decades old battery would work from a booster charge.  Fiction again.  Artistic license if you will.  And who is to say that it really happened in the real world of the story.  I leave that up to the prospective listeners.

Quote from: crossboss on February 11, 2024, 12:45:51 AM

Quote from: Kent on February 10, 2024, 09:39:23 PM
and by the way he is also faster than Mr. John Force, respect

https://youtu.be/7aAYyYvp5v0?si=YlcovVPwARbVv_0g

Well....not quite. Force's car had trouble and he had to back out of it. Oh btw, Tasca's funny car is powered by a version of the Hemi...
Robert Hight holds the record for quickest and fastest 1/4 mile (actually 1000ft).

Is it a Ford built Hemi though?

Quote from: TA Coupe on February 10, 2024, 09:26:57 PM
Here's a chart with general recommendations. I used to run 255-50-16 on my lowered 70 coupe.I used Saleen BBS style 16x7 and 16x8 wheels. I don't know the back spacing.

     Roy

That is a great chart. I will pass it on. Thank you!

Quote from: shelbydoug on February 10, 2024, 06:25:32 AM
I ran them ok on my '68 with stockish size tires. A '69 has a squish more room.

A '66, I would expect some issues.

You have to realize though that I ran quite the gambit with tire sizes. At one time I ran GR50-15's in the front with no flaring.

I eventually wound up with 235-60-15's on '67 10 spokes in front and 295-50-15's in the rear. All on a lowered suspension and stock fenders.

So my general response is that a '69 should give less issues but tire and wheel fitment on these cars is all a bit of alchemy and always will be.

It may simply be that you need to decide on your wheels, then your tire sizes to make it all fit within the package, as a progressive developing process? There really is no secret formula and you may need to go through a series of revisions and tweaks as necessary to deal with the unexpected and unpredictable.


The more neutral offset of the 67 10 spokes was easier for me to work with then the + offset of the 200s' and made more sense in my case anyway. It depends on what you set the criteria to solve at?


I took somewhat of a unique route which includes non-stock but T/A similar solutions which have the experts somewhat speechless. I don't know if that they just generally disapprove to the point of non-commenting or are just flabbergasted?

Frankly, I don't care. My nature is to find solutions that just shut the so called experts up and keep them away since they become fearful of getting flamed.

Eh. I'm the 'Horse of a different color. There's only one of 'em, and he's it." So be it.

He has an original set of magnum 500s for his 70 Boss.  If he can manage the minilites I think he is onboard.  You are very well informed.  I had to look up the meaning of 1/2 inch offset. 

https://www.lesschwab.com/article/wheels/what-is-wheel-offset.html

Quote from: FL SAAC on February 09, 2024, 10:15:32 PM
Good grief  !

y'all using pronouns now .... him, her....yikes  !

I call them ALL used vehicles or car for short

Tell "them" Charlie  !

"She" has been used by seafarers for millennia to refer to their ships.  There was even a Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk says:
KIRK: I've got it, the disease. Love. You're better off without it, and I'm better off without mine. This vessel, I give, she takes. She won't permit me my life. I've got to live hers.
SPOCK: Jim.
KIRK: I have a beautiful yeoman. Have you noticed her, Mister Spock? You're allowed to notice her. The Captain's not permitted
SPOCK: Jim, there is an intermix formula.
KIRK: Now I know why it's called she.
SPOCK: It's never been tested. It's a theoretical relationship between time and antimatter.
KIRK: Flesh woman to touch, to hold. A beach to walk on. A few days, no braid on my shoulder.

Quote from: shelbydoug on February 09, 2024, 07:09:16 PM
The 200s was the first wheel I put on my '68 GT350 when I first got it in '72. It transformed the car entirely.

It did have a 1/2" positive offset, meaning it increased the track in front 1/2" on each side compared to the stock steel wheels.
It would have been better to have had a 1/2" negative offset or zero offset compared to the steel wheels but even then not every combination was available.

It was a very high quality wheel in my view.

Any flaring of the fenders necessitated with the American 200S?

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on February 09, 2024, 08:37:49 PM
843 was shipped to High Performance Motors in February 1966.

So I have to make it to February 2066.  Very unlikely to happen considering there are so many things out there that are trying to kill me off, viruses, car accidents, sicknesses, a falling tree, drowning, aneurism, heart attack, death by misadventure, crazy happenstance and so on.  It is hard to stay alive.

Quote from: tesgt350 on February 09, 2024, 04:04:17 PM
I must say, you are the first person I have ever heard call their Car a Him...................

After three failed marriages I find it insulting to the car to call it a "her" anymore.  The car has a sense of loyalty that most men these days find to be highly elusive in women.  So I am pushing back by calling my car "him."  Besides, cars are a creation by men and everything about them is masculine (depending on the car of course.)

Looks like a perilous restoration.