1950 Dodge Pilothouse Truck / 130 club

[48dodger]

Had trouble finding the "right" tire for the original rims....so I'm looking at 15 x 6 steel rims with T1R 185/55 R15 82V......any thoughts on this combo? It gives me a contact patch of 7.28 inches and a tire heigth of 23 inches. I haven't wieghed the truck yet and haven't checked the max rpms. The truck should be around 3300 lbs I think, just a guess right now. The axle gear is a 3.27...

  http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?dsco=135&Cookie=become&details=Ordern&typ=R-119025&ranzahl=4&nichtweiter=1

~Tim

[Steve Walters]

Hey Tim;

How did you get a truck down to 3300 lbs?  My car is around 5000 lbs, 700 of it lead ballast mostly in the subframe and ahead of the rear axle.  I run M/T 15 X 4 X26" tall, 2:87 rear and have problems with wheel spin.  You might want to bring along some bolt in ballast to tune in your traction for the 130. 

Steve     

[48dodger]

Factory weight is usally between 3200 to 3500lbs for the 1950 dodge truck. Until its all back together I'm just ball parkin' it. What tire are you on the 15x 4's?

~Tim

[Steve Walters]

The tires are M/T ET drag fronts, and I messed up a little they are 4.5s not 4s, I noticed that mistake today when I was painting the letters yellow on the side walls.  I don't know if you can get wheels for them to fit a truck, but I remember a ford lightning running the 130 a few years back with them on all fours.  I put the old magnum 500s on the car with BF/Goodrich TA's for loading and trailering, then put the race tires and wheels on in the pits at the Salt.

Steve 

[48dodger]

Ok....how about this combo? Should I put four of these on? Should I go 28", or is 26" fine. I'm running a 3.27 diff gear, so 28" might get me more speed, yes? I've never mounted racing discs....is this a real problem on rims like these?

Thanks guys,

~Tim


http://www.jegs.com/i/Moroso/710/17026/%5BLjava.lang.String%3B%405b558c36/-1

http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS/555/67051/%5BLjava.lang.String%3B%405b558c36/-1

[Steve Walters]

Tim;

It didn't give any details about the wheel material, if they are steel, you could probably get them painted instead of chromed, welding on the duz fastners for the disc's would ruin the chrome any way.  Is that your pattern I thought trucks have 6 lugs, I've had a 56 GMC, a 56 Chevy, and a 59 Chevy they all had six lugs?

Steve   

[Steve Walters]

Tim;

Sorry I just read your first post again, five holers Ya!  With steel wheels you can always have them powder coated, or chromed when you get your discs.  I wouldn't worry about the disc's until you get into the long courses.  But if you have to have them there are plenty of jig templates for the discs, most of them in California, check some of the other posts on wheels.

Steve       

[48dodger]

Made it to the World of Speed and had a blast! Money restricted a lot things I wanted to do, but couldn't keep me from showin up. lol. Thanks again for the help everyone gave me here. I'll be back next year with a bunch of improvements. 









~Tim

[48dodger]

I made a slide show video of our trip to Bonneville. The music matched what was going on in my mind during the whole ordeal. In others words random. This isn't a "how I built it" video....just a run down of my favorite moments over the last year.

~Tim

http://www.youtube.com/user/194853DodgeTrucks?feature=mhum

[Peter Jack]

Nice video!!!

Pete

[Oldanontheway]

Yep, Nice Video! Love those old pickups.

old...

[interested bystander]

Great project. Having had one as my daily driver in the day and a son-in-law who still drives his red/rust version.

Few years back I proposed we put an available 341" DeSoto hemi in it and he balked. Had to have the original six.

Of course I could talk about his brother -in -laws (#1 son's) pair of 1941 Dodge  Army trucks but . . .

[48dodger]

M/T Sportsman Front Tires 28x7.5x15 1574

Heading back to the salt. Anyone have a thought about using 4 of these tires???

~Tim