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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 02:36 PM
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Just got my new wheels in. They're the Mickey Thompson ET Drag wheels. The fronts are 15x3.5" 1.75" backspacing and the rears are 15x8" with 3.5" backspacing. The rears fit because my rear end is narrowed 2" on each side. My calipers were already ground for draglites but they still needed a 5/16" spacer to clear the brakes on the front face. I'll run it like this for a little bit until I get some Strange drag brakes on the car. Here are the intial mock up pics. I'll get more when the tires are mounted and they're on the car.





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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 03:51 PM
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Very Nice....
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 05:05 PM
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looks damn good.... waiting on my narrowed strange to get here... running spacers on all 4? how big of a tire?? why only an 8" not a 10" wheel?
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 05:13 PM
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I only have spacers on the front not the rear. I only went 15x8" because its only a little V6, lol...
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 07:33 PM
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looks great man.
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 08:15 PM
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wow those look good, the rear wheel design is ok im liking it more and more as I look at it.
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ba78ta
looks damn good.... waiting on my narrowed strange to get here... running spacers on all 4? how big of a tire?? why only an 8" not a 10" wheel?
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 10:48 PM
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damn, looks real good!
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Originally Posted by WickEdSix98
I only have spacers on the front not the rear. I only went 15x8" because its only a little V6, lol...
haha so why put slicks on it then if its only a little v6
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Old Feb 11, 2007 | 12:37 AM
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They're not slicks....I bracket race it a lot, consistency is necessary....I won nearly 3k in just 8 races last year...wanna race?, lol.
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 07:14 AM
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The wheels look pretty good on there. Is that a third gen rear? Looks like it has drums brakes from what I can see. The car could stand to be lowered a bit. It sits a little high for my taste.
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Looks good man..I'd have never guessed it was a v6.
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