Ideal front wheel backspacing for a GENI

[James OLC]

John's reasoning and his explanation in the PHR article is (as usual) bang on and reflects how we planned out the backspacing for our '67 - although we didn't have a clean slate to start with as we were already committed to a subframe and suspension design. In our case we ended up with 6.125" BS and an 8.5" wheel running a 255/35 18 tire. I do not think that this setup will work with all first gen's as it is dependant on a lot of different factors including control arm choices, spindles, and even tie rods, not to mention your subframe. It would have been ideal to go with more but this was the absolute maximum that we could accomodate in our configuration.