17" Magnum 500's
So here goes...
I have 17 inch rims. I have 245/45R17 on the front and 275/40R17 on the rear.
I have 1.03 PST torsion bars. With QA1 Shocks on the front. QA1 TN501 QA1 Stocker Star NA Shocks | Summit Racing
The rear has the Bilstein RCD's.
I've daily driven this car with this setup for thousands of miles and done many 500+ mile plus road trips as well. The ride is awesome. But I also like zipping through concourses and hitting the mountain twisties in a spirited but safe manner.
I also have a set of 205/65R15 winter tires with generic Crager V5 steel rims. (Hey they were $10 a piece Junkyard specials in super shape, why not?)
And once I put those on I noticed hardly any difference in ride quality. Despite the 1 inch taller sidewall.
I do notice a slight change in handling but again that is more to do with softer tread compound and maybe to some slight extent the taller sidewall.
I mean I get it that some people still use 14 & 15 inch wheels/tires for aesthetics and I have no problem with that.
- I just had a hard time finding good performance tires in the 15 inch range.
But those that are saying that bigger wheels with shorter sidewalls is making the car ride harsher is mostly... utter nonsense especially by those who are running crappy shocks. Unless you go to the extreme like 22-24 inch rims then yeah, but no one is doing that here (I hope).
*Disclaimer* If I do see a someone post their 'Donk' a-body on this forum well I'm going to ignore that person. Those are just as bad as those stupid "Carolina squat" trucks
So here goes...
I have 17 inch rims. I have 245/45R17 on the front and 275/40R17 on the rear.
I have 1.03 PST torsion bars. With QA1 Shocks on the front. QA1 TN501 QA1 Stocker Star NA Shocks | Summit Racing
The rear has the Bilstein RCD's.
I've daily driven this car with this setup for thousands of miles and done many 500+ mile plus road trips as well. The ride is awesome. But I also like zipping through concourses and hitting the mountain twisties in a spirited but safe manner.
I also have a set of 205/65R15 winter tires with generic Crager V5 steel rims. (Hey they were $10 a piece Junkyard specials in super shape, why not?)
And once I put those on I noticed hardly any difference in ride quality. Despite the 1 inch taller sidewall.
I do notice a slight change in handling but again that is more to do with softer tread compound and maybe to some slight extent the taller sidewall.
I mean I get it that some people still use 14 & 15 inch wheels/tires for aesthetics and I have no problem with that.
- I just had a hard time finding good performance tires in the 15 inch range.
But those that are saying that bigger wheels with shorter sidewalls is making the car ride harsher is mostly... utter nonsense especially by those who are running crappy shocks. Unless you go to the extreme like 22-24 inch rims then yeah, but no one is doing that here (I hope).
*Disclaimer* If I do see a someone post their 'Donk' a-body on this forum well I'm going to ignore that person. Those are just as bad as those stupid "Carolina squat" trucks