Post a picture you took today

Yes; there's still rubber on those tires, and your neighbors don't look pissed at all!
 
These were all yesterday, in order....


Seeing Mt. Baldy is my favorite part of my commute to work. In winter when the snow goes all the way down to the bottom, it's just so majestic of a view :love:

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We had an earthquake drill at work, and in the trees directly above where we were stationed at for roll call, was an African Honey Bee colony :ROFLMAO:

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And of course, Gold Bird, as I walked out.

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CDsDontBurn said:
These were all yesterday, in order....


Seeing Mt. Baldy is my favorite part of my commute to work. In winter when the snow goes all the way down to the bottom, it's just so majestic of a view :love:

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I made it to the top of Mt Baldy last summer with my son. Great experience.20240814_115117.jpg
 
Those are ok, but I like the older rounder ones. A buddy had one we put a 454 4wd into. That truck went everywhere. :)
 
3_97_Sports said:
these guys keep texting trying to get me in debt. I don't want a car.
And my name is not HAYWOOD.
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Every time I take my truck in for service, I get a litany of bot texts from their used sales department offering me scraps for it. Drives me insane.

Funny enough, they never acknowledge my replies.

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This car is usually parked at the junkyard, though my attempts to find the owner were unsuccessful. YOHB?

The wheel/tire combination comes from a Bronco Sport. Not sure if any spacers were used. *Edit: probably no spacers by the look of what's poking through where the center caps should be.

I find they fill the wheel arches a bit too well, but maybe I'm just used to bigger gaps.

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Those wheels are definitely too big, it makes the car look like a 4x4 IMO. His speed is 7% faster than what his speedo is saying (unless he swapped in a 16 tooth speedo drive gear); he effectively reduced his gearing to a 3.08 rear end (assuming he had a 3.27 before). Now, if he put 225/50s on there... :)
 
Those tires are about the same height as my rear tires (295 45 18).

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theterminator93 said:
Those wheels are definitely too big, it makes the car look like a 4x4 IMO. His speed is 7% faster than what his speedo is saying (unless he swapped in a 16 tooth speedo drive gear); he effectively reduced his gearing to a 3.08 rear end (assuming he had a 3.27 before). Now, if he put 225/50s on there... :)
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It’s a 94-95 so it had 3.08s to begin with, so closer to 2.73s 😆
 
1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
That would be great news, except A. they're just too new to show up in a junkyard, and B. they're mostly ugly-ish or very trucky looking.

Still, it's nice to have some direct fit options.
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You said you weren't sure if any spacers were used.

There are a ton of new takeoffs for sale on facebook marketplace for not much and they make great winter wheels. They made a wheel very similar to the old fox body Mustang 10-holes that could look decent on our cars. I'm looking for a set of 17x7 steel wheels to clear the hopefully shortly installed Cobra brakes on ours.
 
Our factory wheels were 5x108 with a 63.4mm centerbore and ET39 offset. The Maverick and Bronco Sport both use the same PCD and centerbore with ET37.5 offset.

So they're a direct swap.
 
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Derphound01 said:
Our factory wheels were 5x108 with a 63.4mm centerbore and ET39 backspacing. The Maverick and Bronco Sport both use the same PCD and centerbore with ET37.5 backspacing.

So they're a direct swap.
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So Fusion and Focus wheels are  not a direct swap because...what is different? At least I thought I read here that they weren't.
 
FWD Ford 5x108 wheels are ET55, which means the mounting faces are 15-20mm too far towards the outside of the wheel to fit over our hubs.
 
That definitely needs a spacer if it doesn't already have one. Look how sunken in the whole wheel and tire is compared to the fender. FWD Ford wheels will mount up to the MN12 rear drums just fine. The fronts are where they need the spacer.

I also need to clarify a small mistake on my part. The terms "offset" and "backspacing" are interchangeable but not identical. Offset is the distance the mounting face is from the centerline of the wheel barrel. Backspacing is the distance the mounting face is from the inside (back) lip of the wheel.

An ET0 offset on a 7" rim equals a 3.5" backspacing.

Backspacing is always a positive number. Offset is implied as positive unless listed as a negative number. Positive offset is when the mounting face is closer to the outside face of the wheel. Negative offset is when the mounting face is closer to the inside rim. Almost nothing OE these days has a negative offset except for maybe some truck wheels here and there.

Outside of classic car and off-road wheels / tires, you'll never hear anyone measuring the backspacing as correctly defined. When people talk about wheel backspacing on modern cars, they're actually referring to offset.

/ :soapbox:
 
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