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azgtx

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« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2009, 01:13:00 PM »

17's will actually lift your car. Those look to be 14's...15's with a 195-50 will help your handling. I would go no bigger than a 16 with a 205-45 maybe.
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« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2009, 02:03:00 PM »

When I'm looking for handling and going thru the gears, I drive this:
 

 

Since I just put new tires on the Capri... I'm gonna stick w/ em for a while.
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« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2009, 02:59:00 PM »

Very nice.  I once owned a 66 TR4A-IRS.  All British sports cars hold a special place in my heart.  That one looks to be about a '71.  What year is it?

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« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2009, 03:24:00 PM »

This one is a 72 but has the pre-70 front grill, nixed side markers but 74 (ugly) bumper overriders. It's actually my son's... his first and only car for his first 11 years of driving. Adam (son) was in Urbana, IL, teaching at U of L till last summer. He's now in San Diego. I'm caring for his car till he has room for it. I recently sold my 1975 and 1980 MGBs. I also have a 1978 MG Midget. In the last 15 years, I have owned more than 25 British Cars... few were very unusual: 1958 Austin A95 Country man; 61 Bugeye Sprite; 74 Jensen Healey. Before the British stuff I had a Fiat 128 and a couple of Spider 2000s. I just love playing w/ cars.
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blue93

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« Reply #19 on: September 04, 2009, 03:44:00 PM »

It's a nice car.  Personally, I have gotten away from Joe Lucas, Prince of Darkness, in recent years, but the TR-4 was always the most fun car I have ever owned and I couldn't make a complete separation.  So I went to the trouble of making my '93 Capri sit up a little bit higher when everyone else was lowering theirs and spent some time and money making the exhaust throatier (a la British).

I was looking at a 59 TR3 on Ebay a few weeks ago and also a Tr-250, but I just don't have the time for it anymore - too many projects.  Instead, I found an '94 XR2.  My stable overflows for now.

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Gostlrs

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« Reply #20 on: September 04, 2009, 03:45:00 PM »

sell them on craigslist for like 250, then use that to get 17's

i ended up getting paid to put my rims on my car from trading and selling the old tires..
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« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2009, 09:11:00 AM »

you guys and your 17s... 17s are heavy, and tire prices jump after 16s...

out of you 17 in wheel guys, whos running a tire size other than a 205/40/17 ???

so your limited in tire size... im running 16s there lighter. reduced rotating mass. and my capri dosent look like a donk on 24s

besides i can run a 205/40- 215/40- 205/45-
215/45 or even higher aspect that i wouldnt run..

and a 16 makes my brakes look bigger, where a 17 makes the rear brakes appear about the size of a personal pan pizza from pizza hut...

now, with that being said ..to all his own...
i hope yall are happy with your 17s and yea some of the designs i see on here look good..just big
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« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2009, 04:22:00 PM »

mine weight about the same as the stock ones i had....!

and free..cant beat that!
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« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2009, 04:58:00 PM »

true, but the stockers, are heavy as poo...but free is free...
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« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2009, 05:04:00 PM »

I like heavy poo, they help me get better traction  
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« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2009, 05:55:00 PM »

well, believe it or not, the lower the aspect ratio your tire is, the stiffer it is....
 
stiffer is better for corners.. but not so much for traction in general.. you see in order to grip the pavement a tire needs to "wrinkle" or give a bit to allow more contact patch...

if you have a stiff 205/40 on a 17 inch rim the patch of rubber touching the tar is about 1.5 inches x 6.5 inches or so... on a 14in rim with a 55 or 60 aspect a larger patch of about 2.5 inches x 6 inches is touching the tarmac.
 but with a 14 with a 60 aspect. that same give in the aspect of the tire becomes squishy in the corners... so to balance out squish in the corners and squish in a straight line is the idea... lets just put it this way ,
 a 14in. with big aspect will give straight line traction...
a 17in. with small aspect will give corner stiffness...
a 16in. with a medium aspect will give a balance of both...
now it goes beyond that, to compounds, and silca content, and theres other tradeoffs like dry weather traction and wet traction, and treadlife (grippy tires dont last long, and long wear tires dont grip woth a beans)... its a science...
but rule of thumb with tires is, you get what you pay for...
 an 80.00 17in tire aint gonna grip much... but you dish out about 130.00 and you start to get grippy tires...
with the 16inch wheel its the same rule, but at 60.00 you aint gonna grip much.. but you spend 90-100.00 on a 16 inch tire and you start to get what you paid for...
 dosent sound like much 30.00 for a similar quality 16 in. to 17in. but x it by 4... your gonna spend 120.00 more for the same quality 4 tires on 17 inch than on a 16 inch...

those two things, are how i justify my 15lb. 16 inch 5zigens with BFG g force tires.. and i dont spin much after i get past that insanely short 1st gear in our cars..
          ..Joe....RCICustoms..
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