245/45/16 vs 225/50/16 on a 400 Chim

[twobone]

My chim seems to ride a bit high

I need new tires. On a bone stock 400 chim, is there value to having a wider foot print on the rear to reduce oversteer or should I stick with the narrower 225.

[CHIMV8 500]

Tyre Police come on down

[Richard 858]

There are quite a few opinions on this, largely depending on what you intend to use the car for, i.e. touring, fast road, track etc. Overall my personal opinion would be what I believe became the factory option on later 450 & 500's, rear 245/45/16 on wheel offset 33-35 & front 225/45/16 on wheel offset 25-30. If using imolas the front set up can be achieved by adding 5mm spacers to the standard 16" wheel (as it normally has an offset of 33). Hope this helps, I'm sure others will be along soon in any case.

[twobone]

My car is a 96' and has the stock 15 inch fronts and 16 inch rears

[Engineer1949]

should you be interested will soon have two full sets of imolas in gloss black for sale as fitting 17in all round one set has toyo 888s on which have a couple of track days left in them plus a new set ready to fit and the other set is the same gloss black imolas with toyo t1rs fitted also new they are on the car at the moment but only mot mileage sizes are 225x15 front 245x16 rear give me a call on 07765596575 if any use


john

[RobXjcoupe]

It's only 20mm in the actual width.
For bragging rights a 245 rear tyre sounds better than a 225

[QBee]

245/45 tyres won't lower your ride height. And you do risk the wider tyres catching one side, if you car's body is not dead centre on the chassis. If you can get a chance to try someone else's first, take it. BTW, The R888s mentioned above are brilliant track tyres, but at about 5-10mm wider than the same size in standard road tyres, and square shouldered, so even more likely to catch IMHO

Can I also point out that if you were to lower your ride height you might actually make the car handle less well. TVR did know what they were doing, and while the semi-slammed look is popular with some owners, these cars are very sensitive to incorrect set-ups.

Edited by QBee on Friday 10th March 14:48

[twobone]

Probably best to stick with the 225 then. Thanks