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Has anyone noticed the difference in the two side window frames of the cars in this topic? Gas Ronda's window A frame is much smaller than the Tasca's car window A frame. Did  possibly Les Ritchey build his own, or is this an early vs later version thing going on?

John 

Speed Six
If you're thinking about using 8x15 torqs's (because I'm thinking about it too) you can measure your car pretty easily.
8x15 are a 9 inches total width, 4.5 inches bs, 4.5 inches to front rim edge. ( 0 offset) Just measure from rear brake hub 4.5 inches and use a straight edge to see where the rim would stick out. Then do the same for the Back space towards the springs. I used a tire size of 255 60 15 because its almost exactly 27" tall, and 10" wide. A 245 60 15 is 26.5 tall and just under 10" wide. This goes for either Avons or BFG tires. Hope this might help, my car has a slight rear fender flare and would clear the springs but   just barely.

the 245 60 15 will fit but I would use the 7x15 torg because they have a 3.75 backspace. the 8x15 torq have a 4.5 backspace and will bring your tire too far in. the 245's are also and inch taller than the 225's so they will fill up that wheel well up pretty good.

To answer Mr. Gaines, I too have "Hogged Out" my radiator support. I removed all metal that was to used to attached the original 16" wide radiator. Now that's left is the full opening and I left the molded metal going towards the radiator to help block air from going around. From holding my radiator up to this modified support, it doesn't touch any of this metal that is left. I still want to purchase the R model radiator brackets from Jim at Shelby Parts to finish this install.



John


Still learning everything I can on these wonderful cars...

Here is a good pic of a 65 Shelby R, notice how high the radiator sticks up over the radiator support. The radiator cap is pushed in a little bit to clear the hood, the radiator support is opened up a little bit more to feed air to all the fins. You can even see the brackets that hold the radiator in place. The pic also has the port hole hood which is the earlier fame design to clear the radiator so the hood goes all the way down.

John

I have one of these radiators from a 2 dr 65 Galaxie 500 with 289 4sp w/AC. I'm putting it in my 65 fastback project and would like to share the research I have found in this process. First I would like to say this website is THE BEST in finding out where to go or finding who to go to for info or parts for your project par none and would like to thank all of you for that.
Here is a pic of my 289 HD radiator   I have never seen another one like it on the internet anywhere
I think to use such a radiator, you must also use the early style hood like the port hole hood from shelbyparts.com
These larger radiators are taller and the center rib of later hoods interfere and won't let the hood close all the way.

John