{"id":2088,"date":"2012-04-13T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T23:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2012-04-14T07:42:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T14:42:04","slug":"to-wes-in-syracuse-66-pontiac-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2012\/04\/13\/to-wes-in-syracuse-66-pontiac-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"To Wes In Syracuse &#8211; &#8217;66 Pontiac Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wes recently asked<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thanks for your website! I love it!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I own a &#8217;66 Tempest and I am modifying it to get a 12 second mile this summer. Our cars look very much alike!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The engine is being built as we speak. I wanted to know what you did for your suspension. I am having trouble getting big tires to fit without air shocks.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thanks,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chris responds<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wes,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We use the Mickey Thompson ET Street #3755, it measures 28&#215;12.50 and has a tread width of 9.9 in. You have to flatten the wheel lip on the inside of the quarter panel and do some slight hammering to the inner wheel house. You also have to use the Center Line wheel that has a width of 8.5 in and a 4-7\/8 back space if memory serves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We use the 55.5 in rear end and a 1\/4 wheel spacer. We also use a airbag in the right rear spring to limit body roll on launch\u00a0along with the Jegs upper and lower control arms. Also use the Competition Engineering adjustable shocks. Hope this helps!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:twofastcars@aol.com\">Chris Young<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_927\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/paul-4-23-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"size-full wp-image-927\" title=\"paul-4-23-11\" src=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/paul-4-23-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/paul-4-23-11.jpg 640w, https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/paul-4-23-11-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul in winners circle at Pacific Raceways on April 23, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes recently asked: Thanks for your website! I love it!\u00a0 I own a &#8217;66 Tempest and I am modifying it to get a 12 second mile this summer. Our cars look very much alike!\u00a0 The engine is being built as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2012\/04\/13\/to-wes-in-syracuse-66-pontiac-setup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}