Largest Width Rear Tires

[DRBB]

What are the largest width rear tires you guys have on a cobra out there? Tell maker, and all size info. If you are in the above 12 inch width include pictures and tell whose kit they are on. And if you had to make modifications to place the wider tires. Thanks, I just love big wide rear tires and pictures. I guess I am curious which kits allow for the widest rear tires.

[DonC]

My ERA is fitted with 315/35/17's in the rear and I understand they can go out to 335's without interference.
DonC

[DRBB]

That's not bad, ERA is of course top notch in my book. Anybody beat a 335? Surely there is someone out there in the 375-400 range?

[FST FOX]

also have 315-35-17's don't think to many people have larger tires then that

[undy]

I'm running 315/35/17 Mickey Thompson DOT ET drag radials, on 10" wheels. They fill the wheel wells great! I yank the front tires every time I take it out too. well.... almost every time.

Dave

[Cobra 29]

the tire section width is 14.2" wide, tread width is 12.4". I believe the section width in mm is greater than 335s. I am running Good Year GT / Trans AM Rain Tires on three piece Compomotive wheels. The offset has to be right on! My car is an ERA.

[SF_SN888KE]

My Cutting Edge Replicas is running 335x35x17 P-Zero on 12" PS Engineering wheels.

[Don]

Just for comparison purposes, the 2009 ZR1 Corvette:

Speedline forged aluminum-alloy wheels:

Front: 10.0 by 19 ", Michelin PS2 285/30

Rear: 12.0 by 20 " , Michelin PS2 335/25

[cobrajam]

335/35-17s. Midstates had a wide tire body option that was simply the inside half of the front wheelwell cut out, and a 'bubble' was re-glassed in. It would be easy replicate the same thing on most if needed with the fiberglass tub cockpit, just by cutting the inner half out, moving 2-3" towards center, and 'glassing back.

[scootter]

I have the Michelin 335/35 17 on my SPF. My wheels are PSE 11.5" width. They fit with no problem.

Scott

[Scufty]

I run 315/50/15's
Mickey Thompson

[o'brien]

27.0 x 13 goodyear slicks on bennett cobra. Rims are bennett centers with jonblod,spelling?, hats.You order insde and outside hats to get width and offset you want.Very light rims but strong. Jonblod makes wheels for indy cars and sports cars. Centers are hilibrand pattern and hats can be 15" 16" 17", I used 16". Do not know how to post pictures,rear end apart anyway, Independent 9" ford center section solid shafts with 930 cv joints each end. Twisted one axel and repairing.

[DRBB]

Originally Posted by o'brien

27.0 x 13 goodyear slicks on bennett cobra. Rims are bennett centers with jonblod,spelling?, hats.You order insde and outside hats to get width and offset you want.Very light rims but strong. Jonblod makes wheels for indy cars and sports cars. Centers are hilibrand pattern and hats can be 15" 16" 17", I used 16". Do not know how to post pictures,rear end apart anyway, Independent 9" ford center section solid shafts with 930 cv joints each end. Twisted one axel and repairing.

Do you have website or anything to check out the wheels and ordering them?

[Thieleng]

I am in the process of having the wheels widened at Stockton Wheel to a 12.5" width, I am planning on running the Michelin PS2's or the Hoosier tires, waiting for the wheels before I select the tires. The inner wheel wells on the SPF is being widened (tubbed) by RED in reno, I will be running 335X35 17's on the rear, no modifications for the front. Not much of a selection in tires that size, but I am running the PS2s on my Porsche and like them. Concern with the Hoosier tires on running them on the street, not concerned about wear, just the safety and legality of running a track tire on the street.

[RedBarchetta]

To answer the previous questions:

1. I'm running MT drag radials in the front, too. Nice to have sticky rubber on all fours.
2. MT drag radials are DOT approved = street legal.
3. I think I paid $300 for the pair to be widened. An entirely new inner half was welded in mechanically on pro auto-welding equipment (i.e. no cheap spacer was welded into the rim). They were done right...I think there are a few pics in my gallery.

-Dean

[undy]

Originally Posted by RedBarchetta

To answer the previous questions:

1. I'm running MT drag radials in the front, too. Nice to have sticky rubber on all fours.
2. MT drag radials are DOT approved = street legal.
3. I think I paid $300 for the pair to be widened. An entirely new inner half was welded in mechanically on pro auto-welding equipment (i.e. no cheap spacer was welded into the rim). They were done right...I think there are a few pics in my gallery.

-Dean

Dean,

Can you let us know the contact info on the wheel widening? I think I can squeeze 2 or 3 inches more wheel/tire to the inside.

Dave

[RedBarchetta]

Dave,

You guys would laugh and/or shudder if I took you to the place that did them. It's in the City of Monrovia, which is east of Los Angeles but not quite into San Bernardino county. A little, secluded shop that does a high volume of business, and the owner was a bit quirky. I had to keep calling him on the phone over and over to get him to commit to getting them done (I didn't have my rims for TWO MONTHS). He's one of those guys where you literally have to drive to his shop, introduce yourself, and then be prepared to visit him a week after the first time he tells you when they'll be done. I don't even have his number any longer. Maybe 496fe can help (he used the same vendor)? Sorry...

-Dean

[undy]

Originally Posted by RedBarchetta

Dave,

You guys would laugh and/or shudder if I took you to the place that did them. It's in the City of Monrovia, which is east of Los Angeles but not quite into San Bernardino county. A little, secluded shop that does a high volume of business, and the owner was a bit quirky. I had to keep calling him on the phone over and over to get him to commit to getting them done (I didn't have my rims for TWO MONTHS). He's one of those guys where you literally have to drive to his shop, introduce yourself, and then be prepared to visit him a week after the first time he tells you when they'll be done. I don't even have his number any longer. Maybe 496fe can help (he used the same vendor)? Sorry...

-Dean

Thanks Dean, don't worry about it.. The "2 months" and "visit him a week" scared me away. This Virginia boy wouldn't have a chance..

Anyway, I checked and nobody makes a drag radial (that I can find) larger than 315 in 17". That's what I have now on my 10" wheels and they fit OK, not bad enough to warrant the costs of new/modified wheels. I really like the traction the drag radials provide and don't want to shift to a non-drag radial. I do so like yanking the front tires from time-to-time..

Dave

[Madmiles442]

Here's my Michelin Pilot Sports 335/40 17's rear, 275/35 17's front. On a full wheel turn, the fronts rub slightly on the inside on the frame. Since I've become addicted to tracking the car, the next set of tires will be a stickier compound.

[Cobra 29]

I am running a Goodyear GS-C tire, 245/50ZR-16.