I know! I wasn’t expecting them to rub that bad, but after looking at them I don’t know why I wouldn’t have expected that. That are actually rubbing BETWEEN the wheel arches, as in the diameter is to tall they touch the front and back edge of the wheel arch. I have three ideas. Idea one is just buy another wheel with more BS to push the tire deeper into the wheel well and away from the arches. Should work fine but I really like the stock wheel look Option 2 is have the face of the wheel machines to do the same, but I don’t know how much can safely be removed- probably not enough Option 3 is have the stock wheel widened to 10” which should help suck the tire back away from the edge of the lip and give me more room , and I think that might be enough to fix it. Of course the final option is to just abandon them and go to an ET Radial or ET-R which I may do anyway. These swayed bad down track without a skinny or bias ply up front. Maybe just keep ‘em for the no prep 1/8th mile local races they do here since they shouldn’t rub with the speed I get in the 1/8th. They really do seem like a good tire for poor prep though. I think the car can go much faster on a well prepped track on an et-r or et radial but seeing how well they hooked with the poor prep last week, I was impressed. My Toyos have cut 1.59’s on very good prep but I couldn’t get better than a 1.9 out of them that day and the Hoosiers went 1.5x right off the trailer first time ever playing with em.
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Damn, I was hoping the QTPs would workout for you... The 60ft looked solid. Are they rubbing on the outside part of the wheel arch?
I know! I wasn’t expecting them to rub that bad, but after looking at them I don’t know why I wouldn’t have expected that. That are actually rubbing BETWEEN the wheel arches, as in the diameter is to tall they touch the front and back edge of the wheel arch.
I have three ideas.
Idea one is just buy another wheel with more BS to push the tire deeper into the wheel well and away from the arches. Should work fine but I really like the stock wheel look
Option 2 is have the face of the wheel machines to do the same, but I don’t know how much can safely be removed- probably not enough
Option 3 is have the stock wheel widened to 10” which should help suck the tire back away from the edge of the lip and give me more room , and I think that might be enough to fix it.
Of course the final option is to just abandon them and go to an ET Radial or ET-R which I may do anyway. These swayed bad down track without a skinny or bias ply up front. Maybe just keep ‘em for the no prep 1/8th mile local races they do here since they shouldn’t rub with the speed I get in the 1/8th.
They really do seem like a good tire for poor prep though. I think the car can go much faster on a well prepped track on an et-r or et radial but seeing how well they hooked with the poor prep last week, I was impressed. My Toyos have cut 1.59’s on very good prep but I couldn’t get better than a 1.9 out of them that day and the Hoosiers went 1.5x right off the trailer first time ever playing with em.
Started reeling him in
Is that an LT1 V8?
I want to know the same thing