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Re: Tires

To: "John c Kahoon" <john.kahoon@juno.com>, <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Tires
From: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:23:53 -0400
Reply-to: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
wheel   width   profile od      
13      155     70      21.54331        
13      165     60      20.79528        
13      175     60      21.26772        
13      185     55      21.01181        
13      185     60      21.74016        


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> From: John c Kahoon <john.kahoon@juno.com>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Tires
> Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 4:25 PM
> 
> does anyone know the appropriate tire sizes for the same diameter as the
> 155 70-13 ?
> I'm going to be getting tires for my new dayton chrome wires, and would
> like to get the
>  widest tire that would fit the rims AND the car ( square arch 71 midget
> )
> Also, I not much of a purist, but I'd like some feedback...
> Whitewalls , blackwalls, or raised white letters for chrome wires ?
> wadda you folks think ?
> 
> john.kahoon@juno.com
> 71 midget
> 
> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:29:39 -0700 "Larry and Sandi Miller"
> <millerls@email.msn.com> writes:
> >The 55 is wider and shorter.
> >
> >Specification  Sidewall  Radius  Diameter  Circumference  Revolutions
> >185/60-13       4.4 in    10.9 in    21.7 in     68.3 in             
> >928 /
> >mile
> >185/55-13       4.0 in    10.5 in    21.0 in     66.0 in             
> >960 /
> >mile
> >
> >LM
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
> >To: Larry and Sandi Miller <millerls@email.msn.com>
> >Cc: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> >Date: 02 September, 1998 12:30 PM
> >Subject: Re: Tires
> >
> >
> >>Larry,
> >>how can the 50 be taller than the 55?
> >>Ulix
> >>
> >>
> >>On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Larry and Sandi Miller wrote:
> >>
> >>> Has anybody out there ever ran a 185-55-13 on a Bugeye? I have seen
> >>> 185-50-13's on a Bugeye. The 55 is 21.0 inches in diameter vice 
> >21.7 for
> >the
> >>> 50. For comparison, a 155-70-13 is 21.5 inches in diameter.
> >>>
> >>> Larry Miller (millerls@msn.com)
> >>> 59 Bugeye (Under Construction)
> >>> 60 Bugeye (948, 5-Speed,1-Wire Alternator, and still Willie Nelson)
> >>> 78 911 SC (Faster than a Bugeye but not as much fun)
> >>> Home Page http://members.xoom.com/bugiiis
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>    Ulix                                                    __/__,__
> >>.......................................................... 
> >(_o____o_)....
> >>                                                           '67 Sprite
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 

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