<VV> Stock wheels or not???

[Ron]

Very few Corvairs are raced so what do you want racing "performance" tires 
for?
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Elliott" <Corvair at fnader.com>
To: "Marc Sheridan" <sheridanma at adelphia.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Stock wheels or not???


>I concur. A few things to consider:
>
> 1. You really can't get a high performance tire in an appropriate 13" 
> size. In fact, it's hard to get in a 14".  About the best you can get is 
> an H-rated
> tire...much better than an S-rated, but still not great.  A set of sticky 
> V-rated tires improves the overall driving/handling of a Corvair 
> tremendously.
>
> 2. Corvairs are VERY sensitive to unsprung weight. Drive a car with 
> lightweight rims and see what I mean. Amazing difference...more than about 
> any other
> car I've driven.
>
> My wife really likes the "stock" look with the mag hubcaps, so we moved up 
> to a 14" GM rim and 14" mag hubcaps. Virtually identical to the stock 
> 13"ers.
> Larry Claypool has a source for very cheap V-rated summer tires in a 
> 205/64VR14 (a size extremely difficult to find in the US). The car drives 
> better than
> stock due to the (somewhat) sticky tires, but the increase in unsprung 
> weight does hurt the driving experience.
>
> My Corsa went from GM ralley rims in a 14x7 running 215/60HR14 tires to a 
> set of 13x6 Minilites running 205/60VR13 Yoko Intermediates (unfortuantely
> now discontinued). The difference was STUNNING. Next I went to a 15x7 
> Western Minilite copy with 225/50ZR15 all around. Ultimate grip was very
> impressive, but there was just too much tire on the front. I was going to 
> downsize to a 205/55ZR15 for the front, but stumbed on a nearly perfect 
> set of
> 14x6.5 real Minilites which I just had to have... so I moved back down to 
> a 205/60HR14. Not great but acceptable... very nice balance of ride and
> handling even if ultimate grip is lower...but so is the unsprung weight, 
> so the overall driving experience is better than the wide sticky tires, 
> but not as good
> as the very sticky 13's...
>
> Bill Elliott
>
>>But Ron, you  can do both! Thirteen inch tires are getting harder to find,
>>so save yours for special occasions and get those 15" Torq Thrusts for
>>putting on the miles and looking cool :o).
>
>>Marc Sheridan
>
>>> Due to overwhelming support of the stock wheels/wire covers..... I am
>>> going to stick with them.
>>>
>>> Thanks all.
>>>
>>> Ron
>
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>
>
>
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