"For the real question... As we design our own cars...
would there be a stability advantage to placing the
Wheel centers Way on the outside of the wheel thereby
giving the hub's a greater distance between them?"
Keith, there may very well be a handling advantage by
altering wheel backspace. This would mostly have to do
with resulting track changes. My experience has been
with vehicle weight transfer when cornering. There are
some very good software out there that can help you
determine what the nature of the change would be.
John Goodman
--- Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net> wrote:
> I was just out futz'n in the shop... y'all do this
> .. ya just call it
> something else... like working or something...
>
> Anywho... I was looking at the back spacing on the
> Corvette... and the
> wheel centers are way out on the outside of the
> wheel ...
>
> On the race car my wheel centers are located
> marginally on the outside of
> the wheel by about 2" because I'd acquired 2 sets of
> Taylor made 18" wheels
> with M/T Bville tires on them and that's the way
> they came... So when Joe
> and I planed the Quick change we simply made the
> width right with those
> wheels...
>
> For the real question... As we design our own
> cars... would there be a
> stability advantage to placing the Wheel centers Way
> on the outside of the
> wheel thereby giving the hub's a greater distance
> between them?
>
> Or am I playing on the wrong side of the decimal
> point as Dave would say?
>
> Keith
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