From:Tim >starwolf@bewellnet.com
>To:Jon
> This is a yes and no type answer, in that if you keep the 15" tires and
size the truck will spin the rubber with the proper gearing until you have
to get new tires. Now if you in turn get bigger meats put on, it requires a
bit more power to do the same tire spin, because now you have more rubber in
contact with the road. This is in relation when all us gearheads want better
handling and good launch off the line, we get bigger meats, but in turn we
lose a bit of power to the drive wheels when the engine has to turn over a
bigger(wider) tire. The engine itself doesn't lose power as to output, it
just uses more power to do the same amount of work. This is where gearing
changes brings back that lost amount of power of putting bigger wheels and
tires on the DAK's
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: Wheels, Wheels, Wheels, Tires.....
>At 04:34 PM 4/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> From:Tim Roller >starwolf@bewellnet.com
>>
>> > To start off with, do you have a V-6 or a V-8?? One reason I'm asking
is
>>'cause with such a meaty wheel and tire, you'll think you're only firing
on
>>4 cylinders. The gearing would at least have to be on a V-6 around 3.9's
to
>>have any ability of having any power. Even with a V-8 and 3.5's for a
>>gearing you'd still notice a big power loss when taking off from a stop.
Now
>>once you got going the momentum would catch up with all the trucks weight
>>and tire and wheel combo.
>
>
> If I understand you right, you're saying that a larger tire would take
>more power to spin? If so, this wouldn't be an issue if you went with
>a lower profile tire to keep the overall diameter the same though, would
it?
>
> If one did go to a larger overall diameter tire, would the off the line
>performance really be affected that much?
>
> -Jon-
>
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