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Originally Posted by tsk94
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Originally Posted by ThunderMoose
What's your setup?
Considering Hoosiers 245's are really like 266's, I don't really feel like I am giving up a whole lot. Car so far has been competitive against cars with much wider rubber.
What do you see as the advantages of wider tires versus lightness?
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When I had an E46, it wasn't a full track car, but running the 275's the amount of grip it gave was incredible. Coming from an E36 race car on 255's, the E46 on 275's - while being 600-700 heavier, had equal grip if not actually better in some specific turns.
Obviously I'm not disagreeing that the setup isn't competitive, as it clearly is as shown by the time you ran. But I can't help but think you might be a bit quicker on wider tires.
I wouldn't look it as adding weight to run the wider tires, rather reduce your averaged HP figure slightly. That way you keep the weight as is, get to run the wider tires and only pay a small penalty of ~10hp less. Just a thought, not even saying you should definitely do it, but maybe it's something worth looking into a bit? |
I actually started TT3 running 275's. Of course I have improved as a driver so I don't really have a good comparison from those days to these days. I'll have to try again.
Some of the guys at LRP were running GTS3 tunes with 315's. They were quick!