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Re: gearing

To: "Jeffrey Lloyd" <jslz3@hotmail.com>, <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: gearing
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:27:21 -0500
>I'm currently running 24.8" Od R-1's on my car If i switch to a tire
>with a 25.7" Od  how much will my gearing change?

It is a straight linear relationship.

>IF you "weakened" the inside sidewall of A tire could this produce a
>camber compensating effect like the asymmetric R-1's???


Quite the reverse.  The inside sidewall on an R1 is the stiffer one.

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
Lotus Europa, VW Quantum Syncro, Chev Suburban
LOON, TCVWC, MAC
pethier@isd.net     http://www.visi.com/mac/




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