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10-02-2016, 03:30 PM

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The car has staggered tire sizes for performance and handling -- not ~~ricer stanced~~ cosmetic reasons. The car understeers with the 215mm front tires and that will be acerbated with wider tires. Yeah, you can tune some of this out of the suspension. Do you know how?

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I'm struggling to understand your reasoning. If a car tends to understeer with a given front tire size width, dramatically increasing that front tire width, all else being equal, will reduce understeer tendencies. Widening a cars front tire cross section will make it less understeer, more oversteer.

Widening front tire will not acerbate understeer.

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10-02-2016, 08:08 PM

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The car understeers with the 215mm front tires and that will be acerbated with wider tires. Yeah, you can tune some of this out of the suspension. Do you know how?

-- Chuck

Huh?

Do you?

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10-02-2016, 08:12 PM

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^Or a 5mm spacer does the trick as well.

Don't you need extended studs to run a 5mm spacer safely? Or is that just if you're tracking the car

Its fine for tracking or street duty, meeting the minimum 6 full turns required. Bore the wheels if you like, but a 5mm spacer works as well.

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10-03-2016, 02:45 AM

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My post was a dyslectic typo for want of a better term.

These cars OVERsteer in stock condition. Early models have more than later.

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10-03-2016, 05:41 AM

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My post was a dyslectic typo for want of a better term.

These cars OVERsteer in stock condition. Early models have more than later.

-- Chuck

Ah. We've all been there... Makes perfect sense now.

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10-10-2016, 06:01 AM

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Back to the original posted issue.

So I actually bought rear wheels for the front and as stated above they don't fit the hub in the front. Of course I didn't know this because I guess I didn't ask and had to learn the hard way.

I also bought 5mm spacers but they don't fit the hub either...

I was wondering where can take the wheels to get them machine bored and what's the size of the front center hub?

Or is it better to buy spacers that fit, not sure if there is a machine shop near me.