full size spare, worth a custom wheel (Fuch)? (4 or 5 wheels?)

[larry C leung]

Many a marginally powered car suffers from a larger rim size (proper +
sizing or not). Has to do with rotational inertia, the larger and thinner
the same diameter rim shape of the same mass, the more the rotational
inertia, harder to go and harder to stop. Doesn't matter as much with
higher powered cars, if they car spin the drive wheels with relative
ease, traction is more of an issue rather than rotational inertia, at
least until things hook up.

LL - NY

On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:04:07 -0700 (MST) Ken Keith <auditude at neta.com>
writes:
>Quoting Craig Lebakken <lebakken at cdicadwa.com>:
>
>Actually, I have second thoughts about running that size wheel.  I
>love thelook, but on my Saturn, I could really tell how much slower it
>was when I went from stock to 17" Kosei S6C's.  I went back to stock,
>and it is so much quicker (relatively speaking, of course).  For the