<VV> Wheels and Tires Question

[Bryan Blackwell]

I've read that as well - in fact, it's in How to Hot Rod Corvair 
Engines to use wheels as wide as the section of the tires.

--Bryan

On Sep 15, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Bruce Schug wrote:

>> And it depends on what you want: tall or wide. Personally I find 
>> anything lower than a 60 profile to be, well, you can tell if the 
>> cigarette butt you just ran over was plain or filtered. They also 
>> demand wide rims (for street my rule of thumb is a wheel as wide as 
>> the tread, racing it should be as wide as the section).
>
> I thought the rule-of-thumb for racing is that wheel width equals 
> tread width. You apparently disagree.