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[tunnie]

Considering when it was brand spankers 3.0 pushed out 200bhp approx, it's now 12 years old, it would have lost a few horses over the years. 256bhp is about as realistic as Nickbat voting Conservative!

[MV6 MAN]

i thought you read my thread i put up on my car, so you should no how i did it?

Possibly. Suspect I've read 10's of thousands of threads, and my memory is, errr, "badly affected by excessive mobile use in the 1990s"

haha and there's you taking the mik out of me on the wycombe meet thread for my bad sence of direction haha 

[TheBoy]

Considering when it was brand spankers 3.0 pushed out 200bhp approx, it's now 12 years old, it would have lost a few horses over the years. 256bhp is about as realistic as Nickbat voting Conservative!

There was me thinking he was true blue

[MV6 MAN]

Considering when it was brand spankers 3.0 pushed out 200bhp approx, it's now 12 years old, it would have lost a few horses over the years. 256bhp is about as realistic as Nickbat voting Conservative!

whatever man, if you have spent as much time and money on your car as i have mine to reach the power it has, then you would no, ive had enough arguements on here about my car as it is, to add they are 210bhp stock from factory, also i recently got my best time at santa pod strip, running a time of 14.8, so maybe that will give you an indacation of the power im running

[2woody]

handling is what happens when you use the slip going on inside a tyre, the narrower the tyre and the higher the sidewall, the more slip that you have, therefore the greater handling, or the more that you can do with the car. The more grip that you have, by wider tyres and/or lower profile, you reduce the ability of the tyre to flex, therefore less handling.

think of it as a cricket bowler - handling is spin, where the ball is bent, curved or otherwise manipulated. A fast-bowler ( i.e. "grip" ) can't do that sort of stuff.

Omega B needs about the grip level offered by 195-section tyres for the level of performance and weight that it has - any more trades off handling against grip, usually in the name of looks.

Probably the best-handling V-car was Omega-A GSi ( i.e. Carlton GSi ), with 195 tyres and a LSD.

[MV6 MAN]

handling is what happens when you use the slip going on inside a tyre, the narrower the tyre and the higher the sidewall, the more slip that you have, therefore the greater handling, or the more that you can do with the car. The more grip that you have, by wider tyres and/or lower profile, you reduce the ability of the tyre to flex, therefore less handling.

think of it as a cricket bowler - handling is spin, where the ball is bent, curved or otherwise manipulated. A fast-bowler ( i.e. "grip" ) can't do that sort of stuff.

Omega B needs about the grip level offered by 195-section tyres for the level of performance and weight that it has - any more trades off handling against grip, usually in the name of looks.

Probably the best-handling V-car was Omega-A GSi ( i.e. Carlton GSi ), with 195 tyres and a LSD.

sorry man, i still cant really agree with you on this one, i undertand what your trying to explain but i dont undertand how your method of having a larger wall on your tyre would help for performance, the wider the tyre the better, simple, otherwise race cars, touring car, supercars etc would just run 205' wide lets say as an average lol, basicly it would'nt happen

[TheBoy]

handling is what happens when you use the slip going on inside a tyre, the narrower the tyre and the higher the sidewall, the more slip that you have, therefore the greater handling, or the more that you can do with the car. The more grip that you have, by wider tyres and/or lower profile, you reduce the ability of the tyre to flex, therefore less handling.

think of it as a cricket bowler - handling is spin, where the ball is bent, curved or otherwise manipulated. A fast-bowler ( i.e. "grip" ) can't do that sort of stuff.

Omega B needs about the grip level offered by 195-section tyres for the level of performance and weight that it has - any more trades off handling against grip, usually in the name of looks.

Probably the best-handling V-car was Omega-A GSi ( i.e. Carlton GSi ), with 195 tyres and a LSD.

sorry man, i still cant really agree with you on this one, i undertand what your trying to explain but i dont undertand how your method of having a larger wall on your tyre would help for performance, the wider the tyre the better, simple, otherwise race cars, touring car, supercars etc would just run 205' wide lets say as an average lol, basicly it would'nt happen

Said cars are designed around that I suspect...

[Kevin Wood]

Said cars are designed around that I suspect...

.. and around driving gods who can feel the minutest amount of feedback from the car and make a correction, then repeat the process 10 times in the time it takes one of us mortals to even think "Oh, shi..".

Even still, I don't see many of them running stupidly low profile tyres. Wide tyres, maybe.  

[2woody]

and they've got to work in a world where there aren't any surface irregularities, comfort isn't an issue, tyres don't have to be certified and they can be changed after 500 miles.

Handling is what you can do with it, not the peak side-force you'd achieve on a steering pad.