Recent content by Tractionlimit

Its a Leer 100XR with side doors.

It may just barely make contact to the back of the air dam at one point when turning near full lock, due to the 6mm offset on the 9.5" wheels. If you run something like a 25mm offset, you should have plenty of room with this tire size. I think stock wheels with 44mm offset would work too. I was...

No rubbing! I proactively trimmed about 1/2" off the back edge of the air dam, which took about 30 seconds and gives a little extra room when turning.

Thanks. I don't drive on the highway very often, so it may be a while before I can tell. Circumference is the same with the 305/55s, so no speedo correction. I'm guessing it'll be the typical 10-15% hit, due to the added weight and rolling resistance. The G3s roll quietly, however, and are...

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I'm sure this will be controversial, but I had to try it! I combined the 2" Rough Country level kit with the 1.25" RC rear drop. 😱 I dislike any rake, and was never happy with only having 3/4" level up front. Plus the new tires needed a bit more lift due to the 6mm offset. 305/55r20 Nitto...

Tire Installation day follow up: After all that, I went with the 305/55r20s after seeing them side by side with the 275/65s. I'm a sucker for the wider, lower profile look. They're aggressive with the 6mm offset, but fit (barely) with no trimming. I did grind 1/4" of the black plastic air dam...

I realize this is a big departure from my previous tire size selections, but I just stumbled across the Goodyear Wrangler Territory MT in LT315/70R17 (52lbs). This is the stock Bronco OE tire, and is a slightly lower load rating than our stock tire. Otherwise, it would totally meet my goal of...

I reserved a set of G3s in 275/65r20 to be installed Wednesday. Would love to also test fit the 305/55r20s while I'm there. Really torn on which is the better setup to get closer to the 295/60 look. Also wondering if there would be some on-road handling benefits of the 305s. Or maybe some wide...

This is admittedly a cosmetics question, but I'm looking for a set of new tires that remain reasonably light (<50lbs), yet provide more of the 'big tire' look that can only be found with E-rated 35s or 295/60r20 tires. My wheels are 20x9.5 Vision Tactical +6mm. I would consider swapping wheels...

Well, to each their own... It does make me wonder if Ford added the rake to cater to the nostalgic 'old guys with money' set, leaving the rest of us to figure out how to level it for a more current look.

Nothing scientific yet, but I can say definatively that mileage with the Blizzaks was much worse than now with stock tires back on. No surprise there. I was never above 2.0 per mi/kWh with Blizzaks, but being back on stock tires, I'm regularly above 2.0. The weather is still cold here, which has...

I've been thinking for months about larger / wider tires for my Lightning. I never liked the look of the stock wheel/tire combo. The verdict is there's a fairly significant range penalty going to heavier tires, especially when an AT tread is involved. So I decided to try the stock Goodyear...

Does faking the tire size in the computer effectively just increase allowable top speed? Or is there some other traction related calc this impacts? Assuming you would program a small tire size so the truck thinks it's going slower than it really is?

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing the first EV Lightning in the 11s. I guess that's not very impressive anymore with stock Teslas running 9s (8s?), but would still be cool to see, and maybe not that hard to achieve.