What do you all think is better. Should I get some light weight rims or should I just stick with the steelies? I plan on running a set of falken azenis rt-615's 195-60-14
195's? AAAH! Skinny. Try 205's or 215's, they SHOULD (dont quote me here) fit. SHOULD. Most 16-17rims you can find in 20lbs each.
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Are you using the steelies all the time or just at the track? If you are gonna use them all the time you should just get some rims. Plus a wider rim = more tire = more traction. Plus thiers nothing worse than a beautiful car with steelies lol.
Just for the track. I currently have a set of 17" MSR 190's
You are going to shell out some good money for light wheels. The 17's I want are 13.5 lbs. They are only 159 right now and I hope that doesn't change before spring.
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Hey Fire Fighter, Do you mind sharing what kind of rims they are and where to get them for that price?
2004 Cavalier
13.2@105........
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yeah i am interested to,
btw does anyone know what the stock alloy wheel weigh>
Ton-E wrote:Just for the track. I currently have a set of 17" MSR 190's
if it's for the track go as wide as you can.
-Chris
Wider is not always better, weight slows you down.
(eg. read an article of a Z06, tested different tires and with less wider tires it was faster, and they were same brand.)
It also depends on the driving you do. In autocross the more grip you can utilize the faster you can maintain speeds thru corners. Much of the debate between the solstice and the MX-5 is which one can run the wider tires in CS. The miata is faster on paper, but given the meaty tires of the soltice it may be able to utilize more grip.
Also the max width I think you can run effectively on a J is 235, which would give superior traction. I find it hard to believe that tire width would have any sort of massive effect on degrading a cars performance, unless they also changed the rims, and the tires were obnoxiously heavy in the first place. Hoosiers for instance are significantly lighter than most other R-compound tires, so someone running a wide hooser vs someone with say a small width kumho r-compound the weight argument is mute.
Who wrote the article?
What kind of driving was entailed?
-Chris
