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Re: Cannot be true >> Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email] (#32) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:20:24 In Reply to: Re: Cannot be true >>, nwas, Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:44:17 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
nwas is totally correct. Given a specific vehicle, the contact patch of the tire doesn't change tangibly with wider or narrower tires. The area of the patch stays the same, but it goes from long/narrow to short/wide. Wider tires are preferable for cornering, narrower tires for acceleration. Since we're talking about cornering faster, wider tires are probably the direction you wanna go.
But just wider tires mean nothing without wider wheels to put them on. Putting 245s on a 7" wide tire probably puts little to none of that rubber on the road, most of it ends up consumed in bulge on the side. The amount of rubber that gets put down is a function of the width of the wheel that puts it there. You can check tire manufacturer's sites for recommended wheel widths for a given tire's width. A 225 is probably nearing the useful limit of a 7" wide wheel for most performance tires.
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