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Ive got pro race 1,s in et43 already. Just wondered what 15,s would be like instead of 16,s?
avstar1
ClioSport Club Member
172 cup
How heavy are the 2118's without tyre?
ForceIndia
ClioSport Club Member
Gentlemans spec 200
My rallye is on 15's, £150 for four F1's all round.
How come?
80MPG BEEZA
toyo's are £30 per corner @ 15"s
exactly or you can get a full set of toyo r888's for £300
BMW 330d :)
Less grip unless you got the 205's in the 15 inch size.
Oh and another point that ppl havent mentioned... It would affect the accuracy of your speedo...
Oh and another point that ppl havent mentioned... It would affect the accuracy of your speedo...
Could be all sorts of reasons but the reason why the Trophy was so good was its handling and it was running 16's so that size cant be too detrimental
All depends what your gonna use your car for
Im running replacement 15's on my ph1 172. My reasons were i didnt want to mess up the acceleration. I'd never run 14's tho
I have a 182 cup running 15"s on 2118s' et38 and 195/50-15's with no rubbing at all.
Ran my 182 cup on 15's (for track and some road)
Handled better, accelerated better and looked better.
The slight loss of width on 195 tyres can easily be overcome by running some decent rubber...
There are loads of wheels that fit. I was running the above Compomotive 2 years ago!
Handled better, accelerated better and looked better.
The slight loss of width on 195 tyres can easily be overcome by running some decent rubber...
There are loads of wheels that fit. I was running the above Compomotive 2 years ago!
Thats rubbish. the overall wheel and tyre size is the same cos ive already put them side by side and also a wider tyre doesnt mean more grip!
Depends on the tyre 195/50/15 paradas are the same width as 205/45/16 PE2's!!!!
Its just how the manufacturers make them, paradas are more square which makes them wider.
6/468 17poo
15's look 100% better with a decent drop!!!that blue 182 above looks the nuts!!!would have thought the ride would be better too with a larger side wall?
80MPG BEEZA
defo agree here's i feel its more fun and its more controllable in unsteering and oversteering hopefully when i upgrade to r888's on oct it'll be a step up again
Lots of young guys think big diameter wheels must be better, and well, even if they aren't they look more like what a race car has on them.
But race cars fit them for one and only one reason. So they can fit bigger diameter brakes inside them. If you're not going to do that you shouldn't go to bigger diameter wheels, because bigger diameter wheels have disadvantages for road use.
Bigger diameter wheels, even with exactly the same rolling diameter and with tyres on them, are significantly heavier. That hurts ride. Its hurts acceleration. It hurts steering feel.
And for the rolling diameter and width tyres that Clio Sports need, they're cheaper for 15" wheels than they are for larger diameter wheels.
Renault fitted 16s because car magazines rate new cars on specification, and youngs buy them on specification. They say this ones only got 15" wheels, which isn't any "improvement" on the previous model, whereas that one's got 16s or 17s, so it must be "better". But it isn't always really better. Its just specification for the sake of it. Its buying things so you can boast about what they've got, even if you're never going to use it, or it really isn't any improvement. That's the way the car industry and the computer industry and a whole lot of other industries work in a capitalist world. They have to persuade you to keep buying their "new" "better" products.
But a whole lot of people are starting to realise the latest generation of cars with huge wheels and wide tyres have terrible ride compared to previous generations of cars, and when you need new tyres they cost a fortune.
But race cars fit them for one and only one reason. So they can fit bigger diameter brakes inside them. If you're not going to do that you shouldn't go to bigger diameter wheels, because bigger diameter wheels have disadvantages for road use.
Bigger diameter wheels, even with exactly the same rolling diameter and with tyres on them, are significantly heavier. That hurts ride. Its hurts acceleration. It hurts steering feel.
And for the rolling diameter and width tyres that Clio Sports need, they're cheaper for 15" wheels than they are for larger diameter wheels.
Renault fitted 16s because car magazines rate new cars on specification, and youngs buy them on specification. They say this ones only got 15" wheels, which isn't any "improvement" on the previous model, whereas that one's got 16s or 17s, so it must be "better". But it isn't always really better. Its just specification for the sake of it. Its buying things so you can boast about what they've got, even if you're never going to use it, or it really isn't any improvement. That's the way the car industry and the computer industry and a whole lot of other industries work in a capitalist world. They have to persuade you to keep buying their "new" "better" products.
But a whole lot of people are starting to realise the latest generation of cars with huge wheels and wide tyres have terrible ride compared to previous generations of cars, and when you need new tyres they cost a fortune.
that doesnt make sense fred!??
