Why larger tire/Wheels?
jCan @ Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:02 am
Well you don't want your tires to large.
Tires too wide or too high and you lose traction. There is a perfect size for every car. If you mod your car for less weight, you can get skinnier tires. And as for winter tires, I got skinnier tires, smaller diameter rims, with a taller sidewall. So the entire height of the tire is the same, just taller sidewall (for a softer ride) and skinnier for more weight added to the footprint.
It's like this one car I saw one time. It was an 80's mustang, modified for power, but he increased his rear tire size substantially in both diameter and width. So when he tried to abruptly stop at a red light, his rear tires couldn't get any traction (though they did smoke a bit) and locked up. His stopping distance increased greatly do to this 'mod'.
SprCForr @ Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:12 am
Better tread and less air pressure in the tire to increase the contact patch.
There has to be more thought put into it than "it looks cool".
Canadian_Mind @ Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:05 pm
Knoss Knoss:
$1:
Larger footprint - more traction
Footprint dosent effect traction, grade 12 physics.
Larger wheels have a smaller footprint, elemetery geometry.
you got that backwards
footprint does equal traction; college level physics
Larger wheels do have a larger footprint, elementary geometry.
Canadarc @ Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:16 pm
jCan jCan:
Well you don't want your tires to large.
Tires too wide or too high and you lose traction. There is a perfect size for every car. If you mod your car for less weight, you can get skinnier tires. And as for winter tires, I got skinnier tires, smaller diameter rims, with a taller sidewall. So the entire height of the tire is the same, just taller sidewall (for a softer ride) and skinnier for more weight added to the footprint.
It's like this one car I saw one time. It was an 80's mustang, modified for power, but he increased his rear tire size substantially in both diameter and width. So when he tried to abruptly stop at a red light, his rear tires couldn't get any traction (though they did smoke a bit) and locked up. His stopping distance increased greatly do to this 'mod'.
Tires too wide or too high and you lose traction. There is a perfect size for every car. If you mod your car for less weight, you can get skinnier tires. And as for winter tires, I got skinnier tires, smaller diameter rims, with a taller sidewall. So the entire height of the tire is the same, just taller sidewall (for a softer ride) and skinnier for more weight added to the footprint.
It's like this one car I saw one time. It was an 80's mustang, modified for power, but he increased his rear tire size substantially in both diameter and width. So when he tried to abruptly stop at a red light, his rear tires couldn't get any traction (though they did smoke a bit) and locked up. His stopping distance increased greatly do to this 'mod'.
In case of breaking the rear end doesn't do that much, I think it had more to do with a bad and not well thought modification and bad tire pressure that the rear was overbreaked. In general the more right kind of rubber on the tarmac means more traction.
Wider and bigger wheels? Softer rubber!