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Re: 195/60 on stock MGB rims?

To: "Lee Daniels, daniels@tamu.edu" <DANIELS@alchem.chem.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: 195/60 on stock MGB rims?
From: Westley Johnson <kooksei@hooked.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:37:34 +0000
ihave 195/60  series on my 67 tourer although i also have fitted the 
LE style wheels as i did have a discussion with my local tire guy and 
we decided that although  the tires would fit that the extra inch the 
LE wheels offer is a much better route

                good luck
                        westley
67 super charged tourer
67 GT
58 MM1000 tourer
60 MM1000 2 dr coupe


Lee Daniels, daniels@tamu.edu wrote:
> 
> It's tire time, and this tired old thread raises its ugly tread again.
> 
> Has anyone put 195/60's on the stock MGB rims (Rostyle)?  I find that
> 185/70's are almost exactly the same diameter as the original 165's, and
> 195/60's are 3.8% smaller.  (A 195/65 would be again about the right
> diameter, but I've never seen one.)  The 195/70's would be about 2.5%
> larger than original diameter.
> 
> Anyway, I've seen the 195/60's on minilites, but are the stock rims too
> narrow to safely use them?
> 
>  Lee M. Daniels                 Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding
>  daniels@tamu.edu                                         Texas A&M University
>  '74 TR6  '77 MGB

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