[V8] Tire size for 17x8 rims

Ron Wainwright ron_01056 at yahoo.com
Thu May 31 09:39:26 EDT 2007


Don't change the sig....I think it's YOU..know what I
mean ;-)

 & I know all about "I just keep buying more of
them!",
 I just can't seem to stop picking up V8's to part.
 I stoped doing a sig cause my fleet changes so often!

 Ron
 
--- quattro + 5 or 8 = fun <thequattroking at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> LMAO!  yeah yeah, funny thing is well, i moved.  and
> those damn cars still
> sit up in WA.  other funny thing is i have 3 4000s. 
> well did until march
> when i hauled one to the dump and chopped all the
> good parts off the other
> one.  the final one?  well, i am not parting
> anymore.  it is the biotch car.
> i built it back up and am driving it when in the
> great NW.  funny thing...u
> would be surprised how many people still email me
> about parts.  The MBZ is
> now such a classic that in the NW, I have amassed
> more parts then just about
> any private person i have met.  so i don't think i
> will ever quit parting
> 108 chassis cars.  I just keep buying more of them! 
> Okay, so i think maybe
> i will give the 4000 parting sig a rest...naw to
> lazy to change it.  ANYONE
> WANT TO BUY A PRESTINE B7???  OOOO, i see a new sig
> line!
> 
> 
> Shayne
> 
> 
> PARTING:  1972 Mercedes Benz 280 SE 4.5
> PARTING:  1986 Audi 4000 CS quattro
> SELLING:  PRISTINE B7q 2.0t FSI
> 
> 
> > From: Ron Wainwright <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:43:25 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: quattro + 5 or 8 = fun
> <thequattroking at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
> > Subject: Re: [V8] Tire size for 17x8 rims
> > 
> > Shayne, I got a question :-)
> >  I've been around a long while rite..& I know you
> have
> > been around for a long while as well, & for as
> long as
> > I can remember I've seen in your sign you parting
> out
> > the MB & that 4k...you done parting those cars
> out? HE
> > he ;-)
> > 
> > Ron
> > 
> > --- quattro + 5 or 8 = fun
> <thequattroking at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> i don't have much time to go out and get the
> details
> >> at the moment (on the
> >> wheels), but i have 18X8.5 rims (speedlines) with
> >> 255/40/18 AND the car is
> >> lowered with H/R, bilstein suspension.  I have a
> 5
> >> MM spacer in the rear and
> >> a 10 MM in the front.  when i have more time, i
> will
> >> check the ET.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Shayne
> >> 
> >> 
> >> PARTING:  1972 Mercedes Benz 280 SE 4.5
> >> PARTING:  1986 Audi 4000 CS quattro
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> On 5/30/07, Ingo Rautenberg
> >> <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Well, I have run 235/45 17's and they read 0.7%
> >> or thereabouts too
> >>>> slow.  The 255/40 17's will read about 0.5% too
> >> fast and 225/45 17's
> >>>> about 0.7% too fast.  All negligible
> differences
> >> in rolling diameter.
> >>>> Those 255's should (IMO) be run on 8.5"
> diameter
> >> rims.  Otherwise on
> >>>> 8" wide rims  I'd stick with 225 or 235 rubber.
> >> I've run offsets of
> >>>> between ET35 and ET 15 without rubbing issues
> --
> >> OK, maybe fender
> >>>> liner at the ET15 limit ;-D
> >>>> 
> >>>> Pics with 235/45 x 17 tires on 17 x 8
> Compomotive
> >> ET30 MO wheels:
> >>>> 
> >>>> I believe these were with 15mm spacers = ET 15
> on
> >> the 200q20v (same
> >>>> suspension/track)
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>
> http://www.pbase.com/ingor/image/42096174/original
> >>>> 
> >>>> Same with the V8 (except without spacers)
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>
> http://www.pbase.com/ingor/image/42096175/original
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Someone will have to refresh my memory on the
> >> stock
> >>>>> tire size because i've been running
> >> 225/50r15(smaller)
> >>>>> for a while now and will soon be upgrading to
> a
> >> 17x8
> >>>>> rim. According to sources online, the stock
> tire
> >> size
> >>>>> is a 215/60r15 which means a 255/40r17 would
> be
> >> close
> >>>>> to stock rolling radius. I think Ron W. has
> ran
> >> 255's
> >>>>> on his V8 and I was curious as to see how it
> >>>>> interfere's with a stock suspension or lowered
> >>>>> suspension as well as different links to
> >> pictures.
> >>>>> I'll post pictures of the wheel and tire combo
> >> as soon
> >>>>> as i purchase the tires and get them
> installed.
> >> While
> >>>>> i'm in there and after replaceing tires I want
> >> to get
> >>>>> an alignment so I might as well replace tie
> rod
> >> ends
> >>>>> and whatever else I haven't replaced yet on
> the
> >> front
> >>>>> suspension. Thanks folks.
> >>>>> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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