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| nine14cats |
 Jul 1 2003, 10:36 AM
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Bill Pickering -- 914-6 GT aka....Leeloo  Group: Members Posts: 2,618 Joined: 10-February 03 From: Campbell, CA Member No.: 287 Region Association: None  |
Here's a question that for no particular reason I ask...other than I want to know! I'm sure this board has plenty of suspension guru's... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Question: What is the reason for a smaller size front tire/wheel than the rear? Particularly on race cars? On my street 911, or even race 911's, it's usually real big meats in the back and much smaller in the front, even with fiberglass fenders that can house larger tires up front. On my race only 911, I run the same size slicks all the way around, as do many 914's. Most track cars seem to run bigger tires in the back, front engine, mid-engine, or rear engine. Why? I look forward to the education! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) Thanks, Bill P. P.S. We were sitting around last night wrenching on the race car and this came up....nobody had a decent answer... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) |
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| TMorr |
Jul 1 2003, 02:30 PM
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Tracey of Windrush Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 28-January 03 From: San Carlos, CA USA Member No.: 205 |
Bill,
I think you mis understand the logic of classifying cars by points. There will be no "next class higher" by the current definition, if you want to stay with the tires you have, the points you tally will be associated to the tires you have. New, wider tires, might get you more points, reducing weight might also get you more points. The key is to see if you could have wider tires than you already have, or lower weight than you already have, without tallying more points than you would with your exisiting weight and tires...... make sense? It's too soon to know where the lines of demarkation would be for various changes to your car. I can assure you there will be a great deal of mis-information about this topic, especially from those with cars who dont want to admit to all their current (legal, marginal or illegal) modifications - as is necessary for any points system. I encourage you to consider the points system as a positive potential change, I bet you could make some interesting changes to your car that are forbidden for your class by the exisiting class rules - but would be entirely possible with a points based system. Regards Hayden PTBT |
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nine14cats Question: smaller front vs rear tires? Jul 1 2003, 10:36 AM
nine14cats ooops...typo...my race only car is a 914.... Jul 1 2003, 10:37 AM SirAndy cause you have rear wheel drive.
well, on the 911... Jul 1 2003, 10:47 AM Demick 2 general reasons you might want big tires on the ... Jul 1 2003, 10:48 AM garyh 1) You want your tires to have the largest contac... Jul 1 2003, 10:58 AM SirAndy if you look at brad's tube car, it has the sam... Jul 1 2003, 11:40 AM nine14cats What I'm facing is the possibility of my car b... Jul 1 2003, 12:15 PM Demick Just remember that it is basically a balancing act... Jul 1 2003, 12:28 PM nine14cats Hi Demick,
Thanks for the input. I'm just do... Jul 1 2003, 01:37 PM L8Apex I like to believe the "track" width between the le... Jul 1 2003, 02:36 PM nine14cats Hi Hayden,
Thanks for helping me understand the p... Jul 2 2003, 01:11 AM nine14cats I meant "Thanks for all your help!"
What time... Jul 2 2003, 01:18 AM
TMorr Bill,
No Worries, I think it is important to shar... Jul 2 2003, 09:12 AM |
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