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largest width white letter tires for 15x10 steel rims

Started by rockitier350, October 04, 2013, 07:17:50 PM

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HPP

Yellow letters originated on race tires. Unlike a street tire that has a layer of white rubber under the black surface, a race tire  achieves white letters by simply painting them on. After some heat cycles and natural leaching of the oils, the white turns a gradient from white to yellow to brown the closer to the tread you go.  Goodyear through  they would slow the appearance change by using yellow paint instead.

You could always take the boy racer approach and get blue, red, or green tire markers and color in the letters.

bill440rt

295/50's here on a '68 with a 15x10 wheel with a 5" backspace. Stock ride height. Fits perfect IMHO with no rub issues.
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Bob T

Quote from: bill440rt on October 15, 2013, 09:15:22 AM
295/50's here on a '68 with a 15x10 wheel with a 5" backspace. Stock ride height. Fits perfect IMHO with no rub issues.

Same, but with kyb airshocks, any bigger and there definitely would be clearance issues
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rockitier350

what kind of tires are you guys running in the 295 series?
1968 charger restoration in progress
t56 built by rpm transmission
636 hemi
14-71 stage 2 bds blower
1225hp supercharged
0 gas mileage

rockitier350

1968 charger restoration in progress
t56 built by rpm transmission
636 hemi
14-71 stage 2 bds blower
1225hp supercharged
0 gas mileage

Patronus

I was under the impression the yellow signifies the race compounds.
'73 Cuda 340 5spd RMS
'69 Charger 383 "Luci"
'08 CRF 450r
'12.5 450SX FE

Bob T

Quote from: rockitier350 on October 17, 2013, 06:41:20 AM
and 50 or 60 series? any pictures?


BFG 295/50/15 on Magnum 500 10" with 5" backspace
and 225/60/15 on 8" with 4" ( I think ) backspace . Not that impressed with the bfg road holding ability so when they wear out I will be looking at some Maxxis tyres most likely. The rears are wearing out quicker than the front  :icon_smile_big:  

Couple of pics here, the comparison between the stock 14" are night and day :lol:                                     http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,95881.0.html
Old Dog, Old Tricks.