355’s on 19x12.5” wheels.

Here in PA they get you a failed inspection if they stick out past the fender flair.

They're OK to a point. Then they get ridiculous.

Other than flinging gravel at windshield, what’s the point?

No, I prefer narrower and taller profile tires.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Other than flinging gravel at windshield, what’s the point?

Makes it stick better in hard cornering.

I'm past driving a car hard now.
I used to race SCCA Datsun 510s.

Hellcats need the extra rubber. Beautiful car.

Up to a point, I appreciate them, but only when they're done right.

There is an acceptable range that a person can play in before they need to start making other changes to keep everything attached working correctly.

People - for the most part - don't understand that an engineer designed that part too, and it was designed to make everything work in a specific range.

The number of issues I've seen and heard about that involve stock or near-stock sizes are few. But there are a million stories that start out with: My tires are wearing funny, my brakes are burning up, my suspension went to hell, or I got the death wobble, all have one thing in common... "All I changed was..."

Definitely don't want them as your summer tires in a place that allows studded snow tires. I had wide summer wheels and tires in Anchorage, and they were horrible about grabbing the grooves in the asphalt made by the studded tires.

I prefer the term "wide" but I like wider tires.
My truck has 325's, I do run Bushwhacker Fender Flares as well.

When I first read that I thought, who would want flat tires on their car???

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Other than flinging gravel at windshield, what’s the point?

Makes it stick better in hard cornering.

I'm past driving a car hard now.
I used to race SCCA Datsun 510s.

Oh I love those 510s.

I appreciate wide tires on negative offset wheels, but also prefer they be stuffed into a wide body profile. I think it looks tuff.

When I was running my BMW E21 at BMWCCA and SCCA Events ~ I was also running wide 205's.
Gotta have more contact on the pavement for getting around those autocross corners.

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Originally posted by Accomplice:
355’s on 19x12.5” wheels.

Only if they tuck under, as yours do. Looks good!

I had plans to install something like 275 front and 335 rear tire using deep tubs in an old ‘68 Camaro I had. Then I was going to autocross it. Pro-Touring style. Similar to this https://www.speedhunters.com/2...y_functional_camaro/

The trend of wides, 12-14”, with spacers on 4x4 diesel trucks is ridiculous and probably not safe. Half the tire is outside of coverage and added to the bros lack of driving ability, makes them hang over the center line or lane divider.

Wide is fine, but if it extends beyond the body, then it's ugly. I like ugly.

^^^^^^^^REBEL!!!

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Originally posted by bionic218:
Up to a point, I appreciate them, but only when they're done right.

There is an acceptable range that a person can play in before they need to start making other changes to keep everything attached working correctly.

People - for the most part - don't understand that an engineer designed that part too, and it was designed to make everything work in a specific range.

The number of issues I've seen and heard about that involve stock or near-stock sizes are few. But there are a million stories that start out with: My tires are wearing funny, my brakes are burning up, my suspension went to hell, or I got the death wobble, all have one thing in common... "All I changed was..."

Yeah, there’s some basic math involved in managing unsprung weight, turning radius, rubbing at full lock or full suspension articulation, keeping diameters close between F/R (esp on AWD cars) and not too far off from OEM, achieving brake clearance, getting the offsets right for suspension clearance, contact under body roll, appropriate width wheels for the tire size (no tire stretching!),picking rubber conpounds and tread patterns that work for the intended application, etc.

I’ve run max mm rubber on around a dozen late model mustangs, challengers, chargers, SRT / RT Durangos, Infiniti Q50S’, an X6M and a Rubicon 392 XR. They all looked and performed better after. The key metric is that I liked every one of the vehicles noticeably more after the wheels / tires were upgraded.

This project above is the first one where I don’t keep the wheel/ tire from poking more than a couple of mm. I got the 3 piece forged wheels for about 1/3rd of new cost from a Motorsports company that ran a Widebody challenger race car up Pike’s Peak. They used a -22 offset to be able to run 355’s at all corners with the exact same wheel set up front/rear. An offset of 0 would’ve tucked the rears better. Once the front 355’s are on, it’ll test my ability to accept excessive poke in the pursuit of massive width. Ha ha.

I like how they look and the extra grip they provide. I don't like how much they cost.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
I like how they look and the extra grip they provide. I don't like how much they cost.

Same here. Tire Rack was running a clearance deal on the 355 Continentals for $342 each. Not cheap but way better than the $750 ballpark that Michelins are going for in that size.

I don’t know about you dudes, but I’d like to see more pics of the whole car, yo…..