Streched...

[DoubleONothing]

Have you guys heard about this yet? It seems to be the new fad over at bimmerforums and other rice tastic places. Anyway what you do is take a huge ass wheel and stick a tire on it thats about 2 sizes to small that way you can slam the car and not have any rubbing issues. I just dont get it.....

[Jeff V.]

That looks dangerous and destructive to the tires and potentially the rims.

I have to wonder if they're doing it to have a huge lippy wheel, and a cheaper tire. As you get wider, the tire prices go up a LOT.

[DoubleONothing]

Well from what I have heard this is a huge european thing. It allows you to get that huge wheel and then slam the car and not have it rub. I agree I am just waiting for tires to blow. Its gotten to the point were BMW's with wide body kits are putting 15" wide wheels on their cars

[TheHarleyMod]

Isn't that a jdm thing that GT Pro liked to imitate not too long ago?

[Synchro]

Loks like somebody copied the Mexicans.

They were doing this decades ago...just not with low-pro's.

Bo-ring.

[Alan92rttt]

Someone on 3SI got flamed mercilessly over wanting to do that. a few months ago.

[Blaze R/T]

[quote=""alan92rttt""]Someone on 3SI got flamed mercilessly over wanting to do that. a few months ago.[/quote]

I approve of the flame. It's dangerous to drive arround like that, and someone can get killed... Some people learn the hard way, and a good bashing might be good for em.

Here's a good read for your anti flame policy:
http://daveruybal.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=1379

All of the great 3si members got flamed, its what made them who they are. You learn from your mistakes. If you never get corrected then how will you know otherwise?

[Alan92rttt]

The guy that posted it deserved to be flamed thats a stupid thing to do.

[Blaze R/T]

[quote=""alan92rttt""]The guy that posted it deserved to be flamed thats a stupid thing to do.[/quote]

It's good to know that you know he deserved it. I hope you let him know that what he was going to do is dangerous.

[J-Groove]

Wow, that is feakin' retarded!!

-John

[vr4]

i believe i participated in the flaming no that 1.


ppl have been doing this on maui for years. its absolutely retarded.

[Daetlus]

[quote=""Synchro""]Loks like somebody copied the Mexicans.

They were doing this decades ago...just not with low-pro's.

Bo-ring.[/quote]

Comedy comes in small packages. That car just looks stupid.

[bluej]

well, that's obviously taking it to an extreme. however, in the same manner that if you run a tire that's overly wide for the wheel, you loose turn in response do to the bulge and shift of the tire, running a tire that is on the appropriate to narrower side will do the opposite.

ex: in a specific auto-x class you are restriced to a 7" width wheel. some people prefer a 205 width tire for the added maximum grip, others prefer a 195 for the better feel i mentioned above. all depends on the driver and what "works" best for them to get a lower time.

however, someone putting an overly small tire on a 20" rim really can't claim to care about performance, so fuck em.

[Monochrome]

[quote=""bluej""]however, someone putting an overly small tire on a 20" rim really can't claim to care about performance, so fuck em.[/quote]

It looks SO COOL!

[Synchro]

Need to get some of those old-school cholo rides up on teh intartubez. They were stretching tires, chaining coils, cutting shocks and doing anything they could think of to slam their sleds to the ground...and they succeeded. Nothing like dragging sparks as you roll low and slow through town.

Couldn't take the cars off city streets, over railroad tracks, into parking lots, or through pot-hole infested stretches.

I laugh at the n00bs who think this shit is new, or that it's cool. It *was* cool, when it was new...forty years ago.

[vr4]

[quote=""Synchro""]Need to get some of those old-school cholo rides up on teh intartubez. They were stretching tires, chaining coils, cutting shocks and doing anything they could think of to slam their sleds to the ground...and they succeeded. Nothing like dragging sparks as you roll low and slow through town.

Couldn't take the cars off city streets, over railroad tracks, into parking lots, or through pot-hole infested stretches.

I laugh at the n00bs who think this shit is new, or that it's cool. It *was* cool, when it was new...forty years ago.[/quote]




haha. agreed.

we are reliving our parents' past. next week someones gonna chop a 3s and call it a revolution.

[Synchro]

I'm getting sick of cyclical fads. Already had to re-live the 70's, and having to re-live the 80's now. Once we hit the 90's again, I'mma start opening fire.

Can't take parachute pants a second time around.

can't touch this...

[vr4]

[quote=""Synchro""]I'm getting sick of cyclical fads. Already had to re-live the 70's, and having to re-live the 80's now. Once we hit the 90's again, I'mma start opening fire.

Can't take parachute pants a second time around.

can't touch this...[/quote]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8JKb7Z2BM





ahahahhaha. omfg....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBcWzu4e2OU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I280cxs2jvA



dammit synchro....see what you made me go do now.

[Hans_GZP]

A lot of drift cars run their tires like that so they can run really wide wheels and have (what ends up being) really stiff side walls. I don't really see the point in doing it on a street car though.