I have been looking around and am thinking about using my 17x8 tires up front with new 17x8 black wheels in the front and in the back buy some matching 17x10.5.
Can you use 17x8 in the front and 17x10.5 in the back?
i dont know if the 10.5's will fit with your car being lowered, i assume they will...
however, the 10.5's are overkill, and not practical, because;
1.the tires are very expensive (315/35/17)
2. stock/bolton V6's dont need that much traction
3. they are heavy
4. they increase rolling resistance
imho 17x9 rims front & rear with 275's in the back, with 245's in the front is an ideal staggered setup, and with a tlock should offer plenty of traction.
Anyone else have any input? I really want wider tires but don't want to go too big and slow my car down!
ya 10.5 is ridiculous, illegal AND horrible in the rain
go with 10s or 9.5 same effect better all around just keep you fronts thinner it will make your back end seem bigger.
ya 10.5 is ridiculous, illegal AND horrible in the rain
go with 10s or 9.5 same effect better all around just keep you fronts thinner it will make your back end seem bigger.
Taz~
i've never heard of the 10.5" rim being illegal??
also, how do you figure that a wider tire is horrible in the rain? if anything, it'd be better.
Wider tires increase a car's ability to hydroplane. My 66 with factory tires rarely hydroplaned. After switching to 205 radials, which added 1.5" in tire width, I hydroplaned more often. Water has to travel farther to get out from underneath the tires. Directional tread patterns improve traction and the tires ablility to remove water from the foot print.
Wider tires increase a car's ability to hydroplane. My 66 with factory tires rarely hydroplaned. After switching to 205 radials, which added 1.5" in tire width, I hydroplaned more often. Water has to travel farther to get out from underneath the tires. Directional tread patterns improve traction and the tires ablility to remove water from the foot print.
that makes sense, but if you slow down accordingly when the roads are wet, then the wider contact patch should give you better stability in the rain. and the directional tread definitely helps.
when i went to wider tires, my car had much better stability in both dry and wet conditions.
Here in Texas it's not uncommon to have standing water when it rains. If it's just wet roads, I definitely want a bigger contact patch. I also had a noticeable drop in mpg. Because of the rain and the condition of the roads in Dallas, my car won't see rims bigger than 17x8 or 17x9. Besides, this is a daily driver for me and mods will be conservative. If I didn't have to worry about potholes, speedbumps, and mpg on roadtrips, I would modify it more. Everybody is different and it's fun to see each person's style of modifications.
Here in Texas it's not uncommon to have standing water when it rains. If it's just wet roads, I definitely want a bigger contact patch. I also had a noticeable drop in mpg. Because of the rain and the condition of the roads in Dallas, my car won't see rims bigger than 17x8 or 17x9. Besides, this is a daily driver for me and mods will be conservative. If I didn't have to worry about potholes, speedbumps, and mpg on roadtrips, I would modify it more. Everybody is different and it's fun to see each person's style of modifications.
true, if your roads are always full of water then yeah, wider tires can start to become a problem with hydroplaning.
down in this part of florida i dont have to worry about that because all the roads down here are crowned.
Ours are crowned as well. We have so much concrete that increases runoff and takes forever for the drains to empty the strips. It's a real pain in the *** if you know what I mean. We also have idiots with automatic sprinklers that love to water the streets more than watering their grassed areas of commercial lots. Which really sucks when the weather is freezing. Yes, they do have year-round grass so they have to water year-round.
Thinking about some wider tires 
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