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<div class="quotedReply">Thanks Don</div>
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<div class="quotedReply">Jim Armstrong<br>
<blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: blue 2px solid;"><hr><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">From: fast427@sbcglobal.net<br>To: owain.lloyd@gmail.com, rollright@aol.com<br>Cc: tigers@autox.team.net<br>Sent: 7/31/2022 3:00:13 PM Eastern Standard Time<br>Subject: Re: [Tigers] Radial versus bias ply<br><br></span></span>
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<p class="yiv4251662690MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: sans-serif;">When switching to radials, it is a good idea to increase the caster setting.</span></p>
<p class="yiv4251662690MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: sans-serif;">Radials have a different ‘contact patch’ on the ground, and to make up for it and have decent caster, you should increase it. I used about 4.5 degrees on my Series 200 Griffith and steering stability is good.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4251662690MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;">From: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;">Tigers <tigers-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of Owain Lloyd via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net><br clear="none"><strong>Reply-To: </strong><owain.lloyd@gmail.com><br clear="none"><strong>Date: </strong>Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 2:16 PM<br clear="none"><strong>To: </strong>JAMES ARMSTRONG <rollright@aol.com><br clear="none"><strong>Cc: </strong>Tiger's Den <tigers@autox.team.net><br clear="none"><strong>Subject: </strong>Re: [Tigers] Radial versus bias ply</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4251662690MsoNormal">Even scarier than it is on radials I would imagine!</p>
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<p class="yiv4251662690MsoNormal">That said, narrower (165) tires are more fun so comparing cross ply to fat radials are different in many ways.</p>
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<p class="yiv4251662690MsoNormal">On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 18:45, JAMES ARMSTRONG via Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="yiv4251662690MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">I know it’s been a long time ago, but does anybody remember the difference between switching from bias ply to radial tires? It’s pretty much an academic question I know, because everybody’s running radials, but I was wondering what it was like to drive a Sunbeam Tiger or Alpine on bias ply tires.<br clear="none">Jim Armstrong<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPhone<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">tigers@autox.team.net</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br clear="none">Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers</a> <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Unsubscribe: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/owain.lloyd@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/owain.lloyd@gmail.com</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></p>
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