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arnagath
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Post by arnagath »

looks really smooth 8)
now put 14 or 15 inch wheels :P
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Post by bennett »

13inch is the way to go. they spin faster and are betta for control.
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Post by SteveP »

I wouldn't say they were better for control - seeing as GLT's had 14" wheels from the factory, there must clearly be some improvement.

They also wont spin faster if you have the right sized profile tyre.
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Post by Ronnie »

He means for drifting... Smaller diameter wheels will give more torque from the gearing effect if nothing else
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Post by MJ »

But worse on teh motorway. Why oh why is life such a trade off :(
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Post by Chris_C »

Or niether if as Steve's saying you run the correct profile tyres, so the overall diameter is the same (which I'm sure none of the drift guys are!)

Thats great for drifting, as Ronnie says, more torque to get the wheels spinning, but for anything that gets used for the roads needs to keep overall diameter, else the speedo is going to be well off.

Plus the thing needs to be running on the deck to pull of super small rims, but I'm sure thats coming!
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