19" wheels on ebay
10-11-2006, 11:54 AM
#16
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Has anyone tried putting a slightly larger diameter wheel on the rear of their shark? I was thinking about going 18" or 19" in the front and 19" or 20" in the rear once I get my widebody completed. This is a common practice with modern sports cars but I don't think that I have ever seen anyone do it on a shark. Pictures?
10-11-2006, 02:22 PM
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I'm not sold on the idea of having 1.25" of sidewall on some of these hula-hoop wheels. For a car show maybe, but my car will be driven and enjoyed and I don't want the handicap of having to drive so carefully to avoid rim damage.
p.s. NASCAR and Formula 1 cars have a lot of tire sidewall... Looks vs. performance???........Hmmm.
p.s. NASCAR and Formula 1 cars have a lot of tire sidewall... Looks vs. performance???........Hmmm.
07-19-2007, 05:54 AM
#18
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Formula 1 Cars have 13" wheels because its a mandated rule by the FIA, there is no performance benefit to it, its just a design law that all the cars have to adhere to. Their sidewalls hardly flex though, even given their giant size. Take a look at a still shot of an F1 car in a 4G corner doing 130mph and you wont see much flew at all.
They had thought of increasing the wheel diameter for a more "modern looking tire" But doing that opens up a whole can or worms, doing that one thing, leads designers to then drastically change their design philosophy to make the optimize the new rules. This simple wheel size change would have an effect many different parts of the car. This changes suspension designs, zero keel front suspensions would likely be unusable, (although when this was brought up 2-3 years ago no one ran a zero keel, they had twin keel which would not be affected) the brakes would get ever larger, couldnt tell you why thats bad though, but as we all know F1 cars have no difficulty stopping as is.
They had thought of increasing the wheel diameter for a more "modern looking tire" But doing that opens up a whole can or worms, doing that one thing, leads designers to then drastically change their design philosophy to make the optimize the new rules. This simple wheel size change would have an effect many different parts of the car. This changes suspension designs, zero keel front suspensions would likely be unusable, (although when this was brought up 2-3 years ago no one ran a zero keel, they had twin keel which would not be affected) the brakes would get ever larger, couldnt tell you why thats bad though, but as we all know F1 cars have no difficulty stopping as is.
