[urq] Tires and premature aging!

[Steve Mills]

On the 6 speed install- there is a guy in Europe that sells a kit to adapt the speedo drive- I believe you will need to carefully tap the housing for the early mechanical drive. 

> On Jan 16, 2014, at 12:30 AM, John <johnkarasaki at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> I use to run 225/50/15 on my 8" Ronals.
> 
> It's crazy that that once common size now only has 12 tires on Tire rack. AND prices start at $161!
> 
> But that'll make you speedo even worse. Maybe a speedo shop ran regear it to run accurately?
> 
> But now you've given me something else to worry about when I install the rs2 6 speed: how to drive the stock mechanical speedo/odometer off the more modern sending unit trans...
> 
> On Jan 15, 2014 11:57 AM, Tony Lum <tlum at flash.net> wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> The urq is going to need new tires this year.  The current 215-50-15 Kumhos (or any tire in this size) are NLA.  The size is also causing my speedo to run 5% too fast which is prematurely aging my urq ;^)
> I swapped in the engine and transmission from my '87 5kcstq (top gear is now .73 vs .78), so the correct tire size should be 205-60-15, but that is too narrow for the 8 inch Ronals.  I did runs using a gps to confirm the odometer readings.  The alternative would be a Fuchs wheel (15x7), but I just love how the 8 inch Ronals look.  215-60-15 is available, but now they would be 5% too tall and some shops might refuse to mount them.  I am upgrading the brakes to 300mm front and 269mm rear so that tire size shouldn't be an issue.
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> TIA,
> 
> 
> Tony
> '83 urq #302
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