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Labora
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject:

Towel Rail wrote:

Labora wrote:

For everybody with lowered bugs. What size can you get away with running in the front? Just 135's? I'm not worried about the looks so much I want the car to be able to stop well its my g/f's car.

Depends on whether she understands what "following distance" is. My sister has no concept of it -- disc brakes lead to bad habits...

Exactly. I always drive her everywhere when we are together so I don't know her driving habits well enough to comment. I want it to be as safe as possible for her thou.

After the car gets a good alingment on it and tires and all the bugs worked out on it I'm going to encourage her to take it a driving school with me so she can get a good feel for what a rear engined car does under heavy braking, skidding, decel/acell around turns etc...

Anyho I'd like to figure out the largest tire I can run infront without having rubbing issues. The car has what looks to be a adjusteable beam so raising it a few notchs to have slightly larger tires would not be out of the question. Is there any way to measure this to get a better idea of what I can fit??

Thanks for any help
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

135/15's in the front and BFG Traction T/A 205/60/15's in the rear

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