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Old 04-28-2007   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Norway_Olsen View Post
Tires on the rims, Yokohama 175.50.13
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91...n/P4150111.jpg

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Very nice rims, and a neat car to fix up.
It's just my opinion, but shouldn't you have bigger (wider) tires on those rims? And the size you have chosen will throw the speedometer reading off by about 13%. According to my tire calculator, your speedometer will show 100 km/h, but you will actually be doing 87.4 km/h (if the stock tire is a 155/80R13, which I think is right). A better size would have been a 225/55-13, if such a thing exists, or at least a tire with a wider section closer to 205 to 225 mm. The 175 mm section tire is simply too narrow for an 8 inch wheel IMHO
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