20" rims
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From: Detroit Rock City!
Here are my low profile 20's and yes you feel the potholes more and have to slow down greatly for railroad tracks and speedbumps etc......I have 30 series all around and like War Machine 115 I am getting taller tires in the future when the BFGoodrichs are toast. I love the handling and stick to the 285/30/20's in back and the wide 265's up front but the tires in front are NOT even 27 inches tall
.....you live and learn but they do IMO look great and I have NO drop (yet)
see the small side wall in front (I have had no issues but am always careful and know the areas that I drive)
.....you live and learn but they do IMO look great and I have NO drop (yet)see the small side wall in front (I have had no issues but am always careful and know the areas that I drive)
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Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,056
From: Colorado
The Dark Horse / Speedstar Saleen wheels look great! Saleen used the 20" wheels with great success I guess everyone has different feel for the road. My S-281 handles like it's on rails. What hood are you using and how much did it cost? Looks great! The GT brakes get lost though, in those rims. Time for a big brake kit to stop all that reciprocating mass!
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: FL
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Joined: Jan 2008
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From: Chicago Burbs
If you wanted to get real technical since the radius is smaller the rate at which the circumference of the wheel would vector away from the tangent would be higher which would in turn of course be translated to the tire and due to the vector rate of a small wheel your contact patch would be ever so slightly smaller causing a reduction in traction, unless you ran a lower PSI to compensate for that, it's nothing that will really be noticed in the real world though(at least I don't imagine so) and that is WAY to much math for friday!
Last edited by Starfire; Jun 19, 2009 at 12:28 PM.
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From: Brandon, Florida
If you put the same height (35) and same width (255) your ride would be the same since the sidewall is the same, also if you have the same width your traction would be the same, plus you'd have way to thin of a tire for a mustang on that size rim, it would look silly and your speedo would be way off. Granted some 20's are heaver but the stock wheels are no light weights either.
If you wanted to get real technical since the radius is smaller the rate at which the circumference of the wheel would vector away from the tangent would be higher which would in turn of course be translated to the tire and due to the vector rate of a small wheel your contact patch would be ever so slightly smaller causing a reduction in traction, unless you ran a lower PSI to compensate for that, it's nothing that will really be noticed in the real world though(at least I don't imagine so) and that is WAY to much math for friday!
If you wanted to get real technical since the radius is smaller the rate at which the circumference of the wheel would vector away from the tangent would be higher which would in turn of course be translated to the tire and due to the vector rate of a small wheel your contact patch would be ever so slightly smaller causing a reduction in traction, unless you ran a lower PSI to compensate for that, it's nothing that will really be noticed in the real world though(at least I don't imagine so) and that is WAY to much math for friday!
Ouch, my brain hurts now. 50 lash's with a wet noodle for you for all that real world math on a Friday......
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Joined: Jan 2008
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From: Chicago Burbs
Just seems there has been a lot of 20's are no good threads around lately. My switch from 18" Stock polished bullets to my 20" Konig Beyonds (Incidentally I'm the car of the month on there web site. Woot!!) I gained a ton of handing, I'm sure it was wheels AND tires, and I don't feel I lost any power, but I did gain traction with my wider tires which sometimes feels like a power loss since I don't spin as easy.
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 12
From: FL
If you put the same height (35) and same width (255) your ride would be the same since the sidewall is the same, also if you have the same width your traction would be the same, plus you'd have way to thin of a tire for a mustang on that size rim, it would look silly and your speedo would be way off. Granted some 20's are heaver but the stock wheels are no light weights either.
If you wanted to get real technical since the radius is smaller the rate at which the circumference of the wheel would vector away from the tangent would be higher which would in turn of course be translated to the tire and due to the vector rate of a small wheel your contact patch would be ever so slightly smaller causing a reduction in traction, unless you ran a lower PSI to compensate for that, it's nothing that will really be noticed in the real world though(at least I don't imagine so) and that is WAY to much math for friday!
If you wanted to get real technical since the radius is smaller the rate at which the circumference of the wheel would vector away from the tangent would be higher which would in turn of course be translated to the tire and due to the vector rate of a small wheel your contact patch would be ever so slightly smaller causing a reduction in traction, unless you ran a lower PSI to compensate for that, it's nothing that will really be noticed in the real world though(at least I don't imagine so) and that is WAY to much math for friday!