Math! Kinda.

"That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5) 06/07/2018 at 11:50 • Filed to: None

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I decided, between bus routes, that I would bring the Monte Carlo out front and measure up the backspacing I’ll need for my wheels.

Basically I sat the tire where I wanted it in relation to the fender flare, sat that straight edge across the tire, and saw where my (thankfully magnetic) level sat. The tricky bit was that the tire is built for an 8" wide wheel, but because of its construction there’s only 5.5 inches between the inner and outer sidewall. I decided the best thing then was to to add 1.25 inches to the inside sidewall, which should get me roughly the right measurement once the wheel is mounted.

The wheels I’m looking at, Bassett 8 hole circle track steelies, are available in a 2 or 3 inch backspace. My measurement puts me at a 2.5" backspace as being ideal, so I’m going to go with the 3" backspace and pull the tire inside the flare a little rather than push it outside the flare with 2".

This is where the stock tire sits in relation to the flare now:

Quite a bit inside it! And here’s where we’re aiming for:

That’s more like it. It’ll be a little bit inside that, I think, but that’s fine. I could always throw a spacer in there if I wanted to, but I don’t want to.

You don’t need a wheel on there to see that this is going to look AWESOME. I’m going to order some wheels you guys.

Tristan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/07/2018 at 12:16

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About 8 years ago I went on a months-long quest to find an okay-condition G-body MCSS that was reasonably priced and not donk’d. The quest was an utter failure. I missed the opportunity to already have one before meeting my wife who, like most, finds the current Honda Civic attractive and the MCSS ugly (maybe she needs glasses?) and has forbidden me from buying one.

Your car: GIB TO ME.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Tristan 06/07/2018 at 12:27

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My car is disqualified from your search because you specified ‘okay-condition’ and my car is allllllllmost junk, haha. Rear frame rails are gone, trunk floor is gone, left rear rocker is gone. I basically bought this one with the idea that I’m going to do a bunch of stuff to it that I can remove, and if I like the car a lot, I can move everything to a nicer one and I don’t lose much.

Tristan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/07/2018 at 12:29

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Sheet metal is easy, but the frame rails might be a real deal breaker. I take it you live in the rust belt?

sony1492 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/07/2018 at 12:56

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Since the trunk is already rusted out fill it with turbos!

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Tristan 06/07/2018 at 13:24

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Rhode Island. We’ve never met a car we can’t make rust. That’s on the state flag, I think.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > sony1492 06/07/2018 at 13:25

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I was thinking I’d throw down some sheet metal so I’d have something to attach a nitrous bottle to.

Tristan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/07/2018 at 14:07

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Probably. I grew up in Minnesota. It taught me how to remove badly rusted fasteners and patch rust holes in sheetmetal. From there I went to Florida and on to Oregon. Every move gets me cleaner and cleaner cars. I love daily-ing a spotless 18 year old Chevy.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Tristan 06/07/2018 at 14:10

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Every once in a while I look at Seattle CL, because my wife is from there, and all the 30+ year old iron I see just makes me mad. Salting the roads is the worst necessary evil there is.

Tristan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/07/2018 at 15:08

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About once a year we have an accumulation of an inch or two. No one, and I mean NO ONE can drive on it, the city shuts down, and everyone screams “WE NEED TO SALT OUR ROADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Five minutes later, it melts, but people still scream about what an inconvenience it was for weeks. I expect they’ll start salting the shit out of our roads in the next few years for no reason whatsoever.

sony1492 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/07/2018 at 15:08

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I like where this is goin