RE: digital guages [and wheels]

["Widiker, John D" <john.widiker@xxxxxxx>]

NICE!!!! I would LOVE to see those parts, you have a link? 

~John

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Subject: RE: digital guages [and wheels]

John,
  I'm working on putting 12" discs on the front of my American. I have
plates made by a guy on the amcforums that are designed to drop the car
the height of the spindle and allow 85-89 Jeep XJ Caliper Brackets and
calipers to fit on redrilled 99 Grand Cherokee rotors. By reworking
these plates you can easily fit 13" rotors and Mach one/ Bullit Calipers
to the front of an AMC product! The Mach on calipers a dual piston, you
can buy them loaded with brackets from Summitt for about $185! Rotors
would be the 13" jobs for the Mustang. You can use drum brake spindles.
  I've also hear that 1999 Crown Vic rotors are 12 3/8" diameter and
will work.
I'm sticking to 12" because there is a slight chance I can get the setup
to fit inside my 15" wheels. I  may have to move up to 16" though. When
I get the front done I will start working on the rear. 9" drums and 12"
discs are a bit of a missmatch:]
  I'm doing the front to allow me to move my 82 Concord brakes to my 65
Ambassador. I'm staying with stock wheels on it for now and don't want
to fool with the big brakes as I plan on selling it as soon as I find a
sucker,er, uh, buyer.
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV
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Subject: RE: digital guages [and wheels]
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:00:42 -0500
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From: "Widiker, John D" <john.widiker@xxxxxxx>
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
I'm fitting Ford FR500 wheels (replicas) to my 1971 javelin right now,
they have a 1" offset and we are using adapters (not spacers) to
compensate, I've never been comfortable with big spacers, using a one
inch wide 4.5 to 4.5 adapter makes more sense to me. Zero offset wheels
work the best on 90% of old cars I've found, but do your math. They are
pretty cool looking and super cheap. Mine are 18x9 and anthracite in
color. $130 per wheel (I've got a link somewhere if anyone wants it). I
had originally wanted to fit them to my AMX but the Humpsters got much
more room in the wells. Only problem is that's a lot of wheel and stock
brakes aren't happy with that rotating mass and look ridiculously small
behind them so plan upgrades there if you are going large.=20 
 
~John