Miata Mailing List: January 1997, Message #126
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Subject: Re: Split sizes

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At 12:54 PM 1/2/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Previously on Split sizes, Dean Fontenot  said...

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>> I'm looking for educated opinions concerning the use of different size wheel

>> combinations for the front/back of my Miata.

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>The risk that I see in doing this is that you'll throw off the balance of the

>car.  With wider tread on the back, you are likely to induce understeer,

>something I would actively avoid.



However, this change in understeer/oversteer balance could be adjusted for.

For example, I have a set of JR sway bars which have multiple settings to

add and subtract understeer/oversteer.  



Good thread, I would enjoy hearing prospectives on this issue because I have

been considering this one myself.  With my supercharged miata I can too

easily spin the rear wheels.  I too have been considering going wider in the

rear to give me more meat back there yet, not wanting the steering to get

too heavy etc., going with more moderate rubber up front.  Anybody out there

already tried this?  Perhaps 205/55/14 in the back and 185/60/14 or

195/55/14 up front?  The MCA 89 miata was, probabily still is for all I

know, running 205/50/15 out back and 195/50/15 in the front for similar reasons.



Brian Goodwin



























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