Ingenuity Fab & Speed LLC

Okay, new tool review. The ingenuity, fab and speed, tire, size and backspace tool. I got this because I needed to know what tie would fit in here and I didn't want to go buy a bunch of ties, put one in here, it's not what I So this is going to be about this tool. I'm going to tell you what I thought of it, how those would work, how to use it. More to come. Okay, so I'm trying to figure out what size wheel I'm going to put in here, what will fit, what won't fit, what will hit, what won't hit. So I bought this tool from a company called IFS. It goes on the wheel, you can adjust the length to whatever size tire and it also comes with these. The bars, they kind of mimic the width of the wheel, there's different bars in here. I think it's 10, 11, 12, 14, something The company different ones, you can do the backspace on it and set it and then figure out, I've been trying to figure out, I was going to make a jig, but I bought this was about a hundred bucks and really not too bad for a cost. The way this thing works is bolt it on to where your tire is. So these here are Corvette wheels. So I get one of these bars that equivalent to the width, these are at 245, the backs are 275, so anything close to that width is what I'm going to be running. Too short. This guy right here. So that's going to mimic this bar here, I'll show you in a second. This bar here is going to mimic the width of the tire. So when I put it in here, I'll be able to show you. It's going to mimic and then I can adjust. Hold on. I'm doing a video. Wife is coming in. Tell her I was doing a video so she left. The way this thing works is you adjust the height for the height of the tire. Right. And then you just, your offset. And you run the thing inside your wheel. So it's a little easy if I take it apart. It's the first time I'm putting it on so I've never even tried installing it. So it's right out of the box. So I'll take close-ups so Here is probably the lock in the view. Here. All right. So basically this thing will rotate Now it gives you two things. Your height of what you can adjust to. And how high can you go without hitting anything? It's got these nice th It's totally inches. Which is real nice. It's got a little window when you put it in. So I'm going to say a 31 inch height tire just for green states right now. So for that I'd have to raise the truck up. So I'll do that in a second to make that rotate in there. All right. So the two things it would show me. One is the ride height. I don't know if you can see the difference now. So I'd have two adjustments. One would be the height of the tire which I could see and then it tells me how high up the truck's going to be. You can see it's raised it up a lot. But that would be a big ass tire. And what this would tell me is. . . I'm hitting on the nut down there on the top of the nut. But with a 12 inch tire would I hit and with this back spacing that I got set now I would. So I want to get as far over as I can to that side. Really I should set the back spacing at five inches four and a half to four. Because that's a standard Chevy size. If you get a nine inch wheel it's usually a five inch back space. If today's inch wheel is usually a four inch back space. If it's an eight and a half then it breaks it in another little bit. But with that I can set it see if I hit any place. See how much offset I got here from the fender. How far the tire is going to fit inside the well. And I can rotate it as if I'm turning and simulate turn and see if I'm going to hit the fender in any spot or the frame. So to me well worth it because I've been trying to figure out what size tire. The low profile I want to go to with toilet tire. When this thing is done it's going to have more of a old school look even though it's low. It's not going to look as so slim because it's going to have toilet tires on it. But I'm probably going to go with baby moons, steel tires, Nothing fancy. I ain't going to go 21 inch wheels and stuff So right now cool little tool. I got to go figure out a couple things. First part of the video I'll show you. I'm going to pick the camera up stop it and take a closer look. So I want to get a couple of tire sizes. All around the 245 or 255 and 16 or 17 size wheels. And also the looking at different heights from So 65, 55 and 50 series tires. And I'm going to adjust them. The height to the tires are either 30 inches down to 26 and a half. So I'm going to adjust those sizes a few times and see where I get. Yeah. Attack by the cat. Okay. I'm going to j Okay. So 28 tire. Okay. Okay. What I found out is 28 height tire fits in there really good. I do get a slight touch that would be maybe of the rubber of the tire when I'm turning on the inside. But that would be offset when I get the wheels if I'm going to a five inch backspace or four inch and side on that. At least 28 gives me clearance. That's what's really cool about this tool. You can see no issues here. Pretty far away. So if I haven't made a turn and hit a by the time it's And it's plenty for the way I have this thing set up. So 28 inch tire. This one here is just at about 25 and a half. So that bring it up to a tire that'sitting about this height, which raised the truck one and a half inches higher than what it was sitting. It's a three inch overall height. So you split that in half and that's the height that the truck's going to come up. So you're looking at one and a half inches. And it's which would bring me about at my lowest point, six and a half to seven inches clearance. And I think in Texas four inches of the minim Which is still pretty low to the ground. And I'm going to stop messing with that. Still pretty low to the ground. But give me enough clearance to head down the street not where we got hitting us. I'm going to raise it to a 29. The only ones that fit in at 29 is a 255, 65, 16. That's a 29. And you have another 29 is 245, 65, 17. So that's also a 29 inch. A little skinnier, which would give me a little bit more play in here. Instead of a 10 inch, it'd be a nine and a half inches wide. 245, 65 is probably going to be the time I'm going to go around. So I'm going to try a nine and a half. That's a 28, 29 and a half and see where it could be. It's a little less than a 30. That's pretty close to 29 and a half. So I think that tire would be pushing it. So 245, 65, 17 would fit, but it'd be so tight, you'definitely hit every once in a while. Now if I drop down to a 245, 65, 16, which drops it down an inch takes it to an eight and a half. Try that out. So the way he's got it built, and I don't know if it's by design, but there are some play that you play and get it So I'm pretty close to 28 and a half on the height. So now I'm going to check the clearance. And on this bar, this is a 10 inch bar, but the 245, 65 is a nine and a half inch wide tire. So you'd have to guess about a quarter inch off each side. First thing I want to check is clearance here, anywhere to hit this fender, and how much clearance I'm going to have if I'm in a turn and I hit a b So in this area, great clearance. Come up in here, great clearance. Full turn lock to the left. It's just barely rubbing, but this is a quarter inch more, so I'm going to have good clearance there. The other thing I want to figure out is I'm going to the 245 and I go with a nine inch wide wheel. It gives me a five inch offset. I can change it to a four and a half, which would actually pull the wheel more this way and see how that fits and go with a eight inch wheel or an eight and a half inch wheel. And that gives you from five to four and a half down to four for your backspace. So staying with 245, go eight, eight is the inside. I made marks here, so let'see if I can bring it around. Hopefully you can see this. So the way this tape is, this mark here would be a nine inch rim. This mark here would be an eight inch rim, so I can take that and take it off the middle here and get my backspace. So right now, on my backspace, which is going in this side, it's at five inches. So I can bring it in because I bring it to my, there's a line in here. I'm not sure if you can see with the camera, it's just I put the tape measure on it. It sets at five inches. There was an eight inch wheel, which would be on these guys. I can measure from there. Let's just say a four inch backspace. The wheel's nine and a half, so it's going to be I don't need to mark it. I can yes. So if I went to a eight inch wheel, So push the wheel out more this way. I think that would work out really good. The other thing is I can see where the tire is going to fit when it'sitting inside the well. So now what I've done is move the wheel out this way, which puts the wheel inside. And I would say that's just about two inch clearance. So the wheel would sit with a two inch clearance on the inside, so it's not too far in, not too far out. So you get a pretty good idea of where it's going to sigoid by just rotating it and seeing if it's going to hit anything. So by this, the equivalent size of a 245, 65, 16 would fit great in there. And that's on an eight inch wheel, a 16 by eight. I wanted to go with 17. I'd have to drop down probably to a 55. I went to a 245, 5517, which then takes it down to a 27 inch tire. Even drops it down an inch and a half because it's 27 and a half. So now I'm taking the truck and lowering it down, lowering it down because tires are getting smaller. But all in all, it's going to help me decide which tire I'm going to go for and wheel and size so I have the ability to figure it out. Pretty cool tool. I'm going to cut this up into a few pieces, make a little video on it. The tool is well worth it, about a hundred bucks. I think it's made in Texas. That's where you got shipped from somewhere down in Houston. The company name is. . . Oh, and give you a nice little call to thank you. Handwritten thank yous to yourself. I mean this guy is really personable. Ingenuity, fabs, and speed LLC. Pretty cool. Nice little tool. I mean you can make it yourself. The way this one's made, guy put a lot of thought into it. So why reinvent the wheel? Somebody's already done it. And it's cool. Nice little tool. Nice little idea. Get attacked by my kittens again.