[DML] Re: Tire Replacement

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "spaceace3113" <spaceace3113@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>  With all this talk regarding to tire size, sidewall flex tire height,
> etc,,, and their overall road handling characteristics, how would
> DMCH's new rim and tire package factor into the handling of the car?
> Both stock and lowered? Is it an overall improvement or just hot air?
> 
> Harry Vin #2696

DMCH doesn't make any claims that these tires improve handling in any
way. They only state that they happen to have the correct wheel
offsets (think spacers), so that the footprints of the new tires will
match right up to where the stock ones are.

A great advantage to them would be that they use more common tire
sizes, if you are not satisfied with the somewhat limted selection you
have with the stock wheels.

Me personally, I do not care for the design of these wheels. But
that's just me. They remind me of BTTF3 too much... These are
something that I'd only want a rear set of wheels for, so that I could
choose my own tires, and slip a couple of drag slicks onto, so that I
could swap them out at the track on race night. I wouldn't wear them
around town. But hey, that's just me. I love the visual pattern that
the stock wheels create when they spin.

I don't know how the lower profile tires such as these would affect
the handling of the DeLorean. Do the improve performance, because they
limt sidewall flex? Or would the hinder it, because less flex would
mean less shock absorbsion from the inertia of the engine when the car
flys around a corner, and cause the tires to lose grip easier? Unless
DMCH had like a test track, where we could swap these on our
individual cars to test them, it's kinda hard to tell...

-Robert
vin 6585 "X"








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