Richard Bergstrom, President
Central Virginia British Car Club
Richmond VA
We welcome all British Cars in the Central Virginia Area
E-mail me for details!
-----Original Message-----
From: Ric Bergstrom <Ric_Bergstrom@britishcarclub.com>
To: CONAN@RALVM8.VNET.IBM.COM <CONAN@RALVM8.VNET.IBM.COM>
Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: Tire width
>I have to agree. I am actually going smaller on the tire size to
>get some of that "feel" back. Anyone have some nice 5" wheels
>they'd like to swap for some 6" wheels with 205/60 13's
>(sumitomos)....I'll even throw in the front flares you will need to
>cover them!
>
>Richard Bergstrom, President
>Central Virginia British Car Club
>Richmond VA
>We welcome all British Cars in the Central Virginia Area
>E-mail me for details!
>-----Original Message-----
>From: CONAN@RALVM8.VNET.IBM.COM <CONAN@RALVM8.VNET.IBM.COM>
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 10:58 PM
>Subject: re: Tire width
>
>
>>>>per Scott:
>>>>Disappointed, though... because the car lost that on-rails
>feeling. It
>>>>lost the lightness, the sense of *balance*, that the skinny,
>>>>old-fashioned tires provided. Sure, it felt like it had been
>welded to
>>>>a NASA centrifuge, so much so that the SUs would stumble from
>time to
>>>>time as the gas got sloshed up the sides of the float bowls, but
>it
>>>>never had that same delicacy. And I missed it.
>>
>> Friend of mine has this same good/bad problem with his Miata.
>> Had great fun slipping it around corners when stock. Now he's
>put
>>shorter, stiffer springs and wide, sticky tires on it. Corners
>much
>>faster now, but you have to go WAYYY too fast to hang the tail
out.
>;-)
>> Ed in NC
>
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