Shelbydoug - those tires seem to fit nicely! What are the rim widths and backspacing on those 10 spokes? I assume they are 15's?
Do you have stock brakes? The reason I ask is that mine has Wilwoods all around and need a little bit more clearance for the calipers.
~Kevin
Ah hah! Welcome to my web say the spider.
To answer your questions.
1) No, the brakes are not stock.
2) The front wheels are reproduction 15 x 7 Shelby 10 spokes
3) the rear wheels are early 15x7 original 10 spokes
Explanations:
1) The front brakes are what are referred to as Shelby Trans-Am brakes. What that means is that at some point in Shelby's production of Trans Am Mustang race cars, they enlarged the front disc brakes using the 67 Galaxie/Thunderbird/Lincoln brake calipers and 12"x 1.25" vented rotors.
To use that on a Mustang it requires a special adapter and a switch to the production 68 BIG diameter drum brake spindles.
This is what is on the front of my car, i.e., vintage legal Trans-Am front disc brakes.
2) The rear. What I initially wanted was a rear disc brake set up. WELL before virtually ANY of the current aftermarket kits existed, I discovered the 76-78 Lincoln Versalles disc brake assembly.
If you are unfamiliar with this entire rear assembly, the entire thing is unique. It mounts a unique caliper, via a unique adapter welded to a unique 9" rear banjo.
It is narrower then the stock 67-8 banjo by 2" (and the same width as the 65-66 banjo) BUT the spring perches match up exactly to the 67-8 springs. It's a bolt in.
So the effect of using this rear is to move the outer edge of the tire inboard a full one inch. The effect of the clearance is shown in the picture I posted. You can put your hand between the fender lip and the edge of the tire.
That's a full 12" tread plus the thickness of the sidewall. It tucks in so nice, most people miss the detail and think it is stock.
Now the only change that I made to the Lincoln rear was to change from the 28 spline Ford axles to 31 spline Strange axles.
So you might see my interest in this tire discussion going on here. Replacing the BFG's with the Avon's disguised as Goodyear blue streaks? Then again, maybe not.
The Lincoln rear is already equiped with a parking brake, again of a unique design and what makes people crazy is the big FORD script that they see when the wheel is off. Lots of head scratching.
..and yes, there are Porterfield R4S "street pads" on it.
When my trunk is open, pay no attention to that blue bottle in the corner, it ain't nothing important.