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iam looking at rims with tires one set iam looking at is a
215/45/17 and the other is 225/40 /18 will 18 inch work good for my car ?
215/45/17 and the other is 225/40 /18 will 18 inch work good for my car ?
well I suppose its pretty likely the bigger rim will be heavier, which means more of the engine torque will be used to overcome the larger inertia of the wheel, yielding slower acceleration.Iam pretty sure there will be enogh clearnce but iam just wondering what performance that i will lose
It also affects your final drive ratio, gas mileage and gives you a speedometer error.well I suppose its pretty likely the bigger rim will be heavier, which means more of the engine torque will be used to overcome the larger inertia of the wheel, yielding slower acceleration.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?cmd=print&id=3794166Yeah very true iam sorta leaning towards the 17's but i love the look of the 18's
could get some sweet drifts going with skateboard wheels on the rear end hahaApologies for my verbosity but I'd rather much have a hands-on approach than writing about it. So, I'm off to put skateboard wheels on my 900 and see how she performs.![]()
It doesn't take a radical change in size to make pretty dramatic changes in performance. Just an in has been quite noticeable to me in the past.^ Well stated. Generally speaking, only radical changes in tire/rim size, such as the (what's the largest commercially available "bling" rim size?) tiny low rider rims and the larger 26" SUV rims mounted on the wrong application can severely alter your cars performance, making acceleration noticeably suffer and yet increase the vehicle's top speed and vice versa if I understand correctly.
there of plenty of people who have including jameson over on tsl. he ran 225/40/18 and that was on a wheel with an offset between +35 and 40. if you dont run spacers theres a small pinch weld you have to grind, or just roll the fenders and be good to go.I am in the same situation.... I need new wheels for my viggen & I can't decide 17 or 18. I prefer the looks of the 18's so that the direction I am leaning to, it's just I haven't read many people using 225-40-18's on their car so I do not know if it will work.
Kinda true but I do not buy itDon't forget about potential pothole damage. The larger the diameter of the wheel, the smaller the tires sidewall is and the more force the tire transmits to the wheel from a hole in the road. If I was going to buy 4 new wheels, I would buy one more as a spare... Ron
Right. I'm only speaking of gearing here and not any limitations on power. I agree on *any* change being perceptible but not everyone is so sensitive to things like that. What does come to mind is all those dudes out there with radical (there's that word again) changes in tire and rim sizes not knowing what they've done to their performance but it's all for the sake of being and looking cool. There's also the weight factor in bigger wheels, the problem of overcoming the added inertia as has already been spoken of. Bigger does not always mean heavier so go with forged aluminum. One can have a smaller wheel that is heavier than one larger because it is a heavier (and cheaper) cast aluminum wheel.It doesn't take a radical change in size to make pretty dramatic changes in performance. Just an in has been quite noticeable to me in the past.
Top speed will only be increased if top speed was gearing limited instead of power limited.