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Re: tire size for a roadster

To: CalSpeed@aol.com, ambradley@yahoo.com, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: tire size for a roadster
From: rd lib <bungii69@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 01:10:31 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for the info...

How will it look ....having a smaller diameter tire..
I really like a car with a filled wheel well..
Did you have to lower your car a bit to get that
look..??


--- CalSpeed@aol.com wrote:
> Recently I was thinking of going to a smaller size
> tire.  I have been running 
> with a set of Yokohama A032R's, 195x60-14.  They are
> mounted on a set of 
> Panasport 14x6 rims.  They work well and they stick
> awesome on the track.
> 
> I have been thinking of going to a 185x60-14 on the
> same 14x6 rim.  It seems 
> to me that the contact patch will be roughly the
> same because of the width of 
> the wheel.  But the profile will end up being lower.
>  Lower profile... more 
> stable tire...?  Also a tire with a smaller
> circumference means slightly 
> quicker off of the line.  Oh... the weight is less
> too.
> 
> It sounds like a winning combination to me.  Any
> ideas from the tire and 
> suspension experts?  Anyone interested in a
> good-used set of DOT Race tires?  
> They have 75 percent tread left on them?  And they
> stick like stink!
> 
> Michael "Calspeed" Carion
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