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ajmor6 Regular Location: Melbourne Registered: August 2005	Re: why don't i loose traction? Mon, 07 November 2005 22:27 Here's a thought for everyone - back in the day, don't give me grief, but i had a 4.0L straight six Ford EB Wagon for about a year. I know i know but i got the car for free so i wasn't complaining and it was in perfect nick. Anyway, it had 195's all round. Wasn't happy, so i put 205's on the front and 235's on the back along with some sports suspension. Handling increased dramitically and i had no understeer in the dry and very little in the wet, pretty good for 6m+ wagon. What got me was the fact i could drift the wagon on 235's but i could only get a little fish tale using the 195's. Funny hey? I figure its got to do with weight distribution vs surface area. The road/tyre has a certain coefficient of friction. My guess would say that the heavier the car is the greater the coefficient but if distributed over a large surface area the coefficient will drop. Thus wider may not neccessarily be better, you have to match the weight of the car with the right tyre size, trial and error maybe but you could also go to narrow and the tyres jut spin. A way to test this theory is to get on dirt. A wide tyre may have good surface area but the weight is distributed over the whole area and the tread won't dig into the dirt, kinda float over the top. On the other hand if you choose a narrower tyre, the weight onto the tyre has a smaller spread onto the dirt and will force the tread to start digging! Just a thought folks. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	why don't i loose traction?	ndgcpr	Wed, 26 October 2005 13:23
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	draven	Wed, 26 October 2005 13:25
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	Norbie	Wed, 26 October 2005 13:27
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	rthy	Wed, 26 October 2005 13:30
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	allencr	Wed, 26 October 2005 15:09
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	devolutio	Wed, 26 October 2005 23:11
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	rthy	Thu, 27 October 2005 05:51
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	mic*	Wed, 26 October 2005 23:02
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	oldcorollas	Wed, 26 October 2005 23:19
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	devolutio	Wed, 26 October 2005 23:35
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	vanguard	Thu, 27 October 2005 01:17
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	ndgcpr	Thu, 27 October 2005 09:22
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	ndgcpr	Thu, 27 October 2005 09:20
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	« R²» Blinky	Fri, 28 October 2005 02:05
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	oldcorollas	Fri, 28 October 2005 03:14
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	mic*	Wed, 26 October 2005 23:43
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	KLR16V	Thu, 27 October 2005 00:38
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	WYSIWYG	Fri, 28 October 2005 17:15
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	terra	Thu, 27 October 2005 01:08
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	Norbie	Thu, 27 October 2005 01:19
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	oldcorollas	Thu, 27 October 2005 02:52
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	oldcorollas	Thu, 27 October 2005 03:33
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	hokey	Fri, 28 October 2005 04:11
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	monkeymajik	Thu, 27 October 2005 03:59
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	dingaling	Thu, 27 October 2005 04:27
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	Mookie	Thu, 27 October 2005 04:44
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	ajmor6	Thu, 27 October 2005 05:11
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	myne	Thu, 27 October 2005 06:33
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	rthy	Thu, 27 October 2005 06:36
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	Stefan	Thu, 27 October 2005 07:00
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	mic*	Thu, 27 October 2005 23:38
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	justcallmefrank	Fri, 28 October 2005 05:12
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	justcallmefrank	Fri, 28 October 2005 05:14
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	hokey	Fri, 28 October 2005 06:22
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	WYSIWYG	Fri, 28 October 2005 17:22
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	Phrostbyte	Sat, 29 October 2005 14:22
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	havabeer	Sun, 30 October 2005 09:32
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	oldcorollas	Sun, 30 October 2005 09:36
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	Norbie	Sun, 30 October 2005 14:06
	Re: why don't i loose traction?	ajmor6	Mon, 07 November 2005 22:27

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