A body 73 and up vs 72 and older front track width questions.

Carnut76 said
The Wilwood brake kit for the 72 and older spec to have zero offset but they have 3 different kits, the tires are 26x6.0015LT Mickey Thompson, the rims if I remember correctly are 4" or 4.5 with zero offset. I paid a good buck for these because they were in very nice condition, you can't buy them off the shelf anymore. I will be cool when they make a comeback like torque thrust wheels did, they just seem to be the look I like for this car, not really into the pro touring look. With the Willwoods and older spindles I should be Aok, I drove the car to a few places but I have to be very careful when articulating the suspension and turning. Very nice diagram for the track width BTW.

The diagram is from a factory TSB that's available on The 1970 Hamtramck Registry Home Page

I'm not at all convinced that narrowing the track width more will make up for the 26" tall tire. That combination of rim and tire is already over ~1" inside of the fender lip. I suspect all you'll do is move your interference point to a slightly higher turning angle. I think if you want to make those rims work you'll either need a slightly shorter tire or you'll need to add some ride height up front.

There are TONS of threads about different tire combinations on this forum, and when you start looking at front tire heights for Barracuda's you'll find that very, very few of them involve tires that approach 26" tall. And on the ones that do, you'll likely find that the owners of those Barracuda's modified their lower front fenders to make it work. Removing a small triangle or pie shaped section from the lower front corner of the Barracuda fenders is a pretty popular modification because of the tire height limitations of the stock fenders.

Best of luck