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Re: Double standard about fat tires Posted by Joe [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Re: Double standard about fat tires, Chad, Mon, 19 May 2003 06:46:33 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Half of why you want a slightly larger tires in the rear is that is looks nice. The other half is that there is room for it. It would be great to put larger tires in the front but space on a 9000 is not plentiful.
Auto cross cars ride on dirt, so they need more traction in the front They are also very used to dealing with a sideways travalling car. Altough a 9000 can bake the tires with a drop of the clutch, they do not need much more than a 225 to hockup on road surfaces. A bigger tire in the front than rear would look silly and be dangerous.
Understeer is safe. That is exactly the point. The opposite of understeer is the condition that you described with the larger front tires. You do not want to over traction the front relative to the rear. Picture yourself going around a bend at high G forces coasting. You want your car as it passes its max G force to break lose in the front. That way you go into understeer. If the rear breaks lose first, you have a very bad situation. The rear tires are only holding with kinetic friction (sliding) and the front are holding with static friction (not sliding.) Your rear wheels try to pass up your front wheels. This most often turns your car directly into on coming traffic! If you do not understand this. Please just trust me. In simple terms: Do you remember wht happens when you apply the rear brakes while turning on your bicycle? Remember that cool Nike shaped skidmark? The same thing happens to a car.
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