SwedeSport wrote:I recall watching some old video of the factory rally team running incredibly wide wheels on a car. I believe they were running a closed course tarmac event.
The dimensions from the hub surface towards inboard is identical to the stock wheels and tires. all the width is added to the outside of the rim.
Wasn't someone on here running 10 inch stock car wheels with fat slicks on it without much problem?
Ideally, you want to grow tires equally on both sides of the virtual centerline projected through the upper and lower ball joints down to the contact patch. Otherwise the scrub radius becomes too much and when you are turning you are "pushing" a lot more tread than you are "pulling" and the steering dynamics tend to get weird and unbalanced.
Of course lots of people run these superwide tires with on all sorts of things and seem to make it work at auto-x's and such, but I've driven a few cars like this and although the absolute "grip" may be more, they don't tend to be very fun to drive. Just my 2 cents....