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Running staggered tires...

I think this thread will get good...

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=884632

245/45s out back and 225/45s up front

http://home.comcast.net/~sporqster/subaru.jpg

"Gee, why's my seat getting so hot?"

Matched perfect and staggered special!

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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

Matched perfect and staggered special!

"Yeah, luckly my crew decided the best thing to help my natural understeer was more rear traction. We finished 8th today, without that great move in the tire selection, we might have been competative. We're hoping next race we'll be able to DNF, and we see a possible DNS next season if things keep going our way."

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see your cool, every one here is calling me dumb for everying thinking about putting wider tires in the rear, my diff did break but it proly wan't for that reason, my prob was lunching it as hard as i can, now thats the problem.

haha

Oh I get it, he hates his center diff.

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Originally Posted by sperry

[DJ]

SPECIAAAL!!!

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I'm guessing the main reason he did it was because it looks cool.

+1 for looking cool.

That thread is painful to read. I suggest we cross post it to corner carvers for a proper flaming... :lol:

Hah, so this wasn't for performance advantage (duh) and he fesses up :p

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...2&postcount=38

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Originally Posted by Sporqster

OK time to fess up....

Here's the REAL reason I'm running bigger tires in the rear... rims are offset, 7.5" and 8.5". didn't realize this when I picked them up used. No biggie, they still fit fine with 225's all around, which is what I had been running. THEN Turner Motorsports (who races BMW's) is selling 245/45-17's and 225/45-17's leftover racing tires for $60 each - what a steal... bought them without thinking much about it, thinking I would put them on my wife's Porsche (which also has 7.5" and 8.5" front/rear 17" rims). She, in the meantime bought 16" rims with hoosiers already mounted on them. Fine I'll just mount them on my own rims! it wasn't until I got them mounted on the rims and started stacking them on the trailer that I realized the rears were so much bigger... So I made up a rationalization to use them... after all they looked cool on the car I thought.

Prolly asking a lot to put 245's on a 7.5" rim... guess I'll have to get some 225's for the rear...

So suppose I did burn up the diff- what would be the symptoms and would you ever be able to tell? You wouldn't think that 26 extra revolutions per mile would wear out a gear, at least it wouldn't seem that way to me. If it did it would seem like it might as well be a locker. I could certainly see how locking down the front wheels and putting the back end on a dyno or something would let the magic diff smoke out, but 26 rev's a mile? That doesn't seem like a lot of slippage for a diff to handle, and a risk I took, primarily in the name of cheapness.

Maybe I should just ebay the whole wheel set up... shame, 'cause I think they look cool. Maybe I can find a race team that discards 245-40-17's...

Dude... his wife runs a Porsche at the track, and she's smart enough to downsize her track wheels... and she's married to that clown? What a fucking world.

I like how he not only didn't know she had bought new wheels and tires for her Porsche, but then broke it at the track. lmao

Why are we talking to/about this guy?

His wife: A. Owns a Porsche. B. Drives it at the track. C. Buys her own wheels/tires. D. And is probably hot!

Forget his diff, lets get some pictures of his wife and her Porsche!

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Originally Posted by Dean

http://home.comcast.net/~sporqster/

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Originally Posted by nKoan

http://home.comcast.net/~sporqster/

Well 3 out of 4 aint bad Dean. :D

We all could have lived on in blissful ingnorance thinking there was a Porsche driving Hottie out there, but Noooo... Nick had to go and ruin it. :lol:

After examining those pictures...I think they are perfect for each other...

So I was right he did think it looked cool.

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It does look cool...

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Originally Posted by cody

It does look cool...

Mismatched tire sizes only look cool on car like this:

http://www.motorsport.com/photos/f1/...uz-tm-0101.jpg

Bonus points for people that know when/where/what this picture is from (no looking at the image title!)

Also, I was under the impression that the term "stagger" only applied to left/right size difference, i.e. circle track madness.

http://www.mosport.com/photos/2002/oval-aug24-06.jpg

They look pretty cool on AMG's and Porsche's too.

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Originally Posted by cody

They look pretty cool on AMG's and Porsche's too.

AMG's suck unless your looking for a luxury sled, and the "cool" Porsches are AWD. :P

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Originally Posted by sperry

That wouldn't. perchance, be Adelaide? would it? :lol: Australian GP of looks like Mid '90s? Benetton Renault, so I'm going to guess thats Schumacher winning the race and maybe even a championship.

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Originally Posted by sperry

Also, I was under the impression that the term "stagger" only applied to left/right size difference, i.e. circle track madness.

That is the common usage, not front/rear.