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echo: oldcars
to: JACK SCHWENDENER
from: LANDON ROBINSON
date: 1998-01-14 15:58:00
subject: Re: Tires

 -=> Quoting Jack Schwendener to Landon Robinson <=-
 
 LR>BIG is what I want (on the back anyway).  I had some 30x9.5x15" light 
truck
 JS> I can't think of any reason why you'd want a tire like that, but you
 JS> could fit some P235-75R15s on a 6" rim. They're almost 29" tall.
 
I just had them lying around and though if I could find a rim that would fit
both the tire and the axle I'd try it.
 LR> I want to
 LR>turn the thing into one of those muscle car era street machines with the 
bac
 LR>bumper about three/four feet off the ground.  Plus having big tires on 
e
 JS> For a muscle car look you need some really wide tires back there, like
 JS> a 295-60. Jacking it up just to get the rear end high doesn't look
 JS> like a muscle car, it just looks dorky ....
 
I just looked up some things in a book of mine and I should able to fit a 
P295-? in there without having to tub it. It's only another 8cm.
LR>back will up the final drive ratio to make the thing seriously launch at
 JS> No, it will kill it off the line, it makes the overall gearing higher,
 JS> (lower numerically)....
 
I keep getting nailed on this one.  Someone told me that having bigger tires
would make it launch faster I guess they had it backwards and actually it 
lets you go faster at the top end.
Thanks for the info.
-Landon
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