Help with Tyres - 289 Racing Look for Road Use

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Re: Help with Tyres - 289 Racing Look for Road Use

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Yes, Migge, I need to lower the rear suspension by around an inch to sit right, the bottom picture above shows the racing Yokohama tyre which was a 60 profile.
This is the 205/70 on the front:
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And the 215/70 on the rear will look better when I fit the lowering blocks that I received from John Coward:
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My final dilemma...keep the nice, new, octagonal nuts, or buy a set of 2-eared spinners...I’m definitely thinking spinners! 🤔
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Re: Help with Tyres - 289 Racing Look for Road Use

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Or 2" :-)
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Migge wrote: Tue Nov 24, 2020 6:29 pmOr 2" :-)
Yes...maybe! I measured 1 1/2” difference between height & side gaps, but that was without moving the car to settle it properly!
But at 1 1/2 - 2”, I might hit the exhaust coming into the drive! My blue car is too high for this reason! 😆😆😆
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