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Originally Posted by syborg tt
The reason I started this post is I was talking with a Race Car Chassis builder. Most of the cars he build are for long tracks not short tracks like autocross at Good Guys Events.
Long story short he is building of all things an s10 pick for a gentleman that has a 250,000 porsche race car. The tire size he is putting on the truck is 275 front and 295 rear. Engine is a 383, forgot to look at the trans. He is confident that with the suspension set up and scratch built chassis it will handle every bit as good as the owners Porsche race car if not better.
They are building it for fun to beat other high end cars. Nothing like getting spanked by a little S10 pick up. When I asked him why not go bigger he kinda laughed and said ,"Son bigger isn't alway better"
By the time he was done explaining everything to me it made more sense. I figure since all this guy does is actually build track cars he must know what he's talking about. I remember a VW van that was built with the same philosphy and it surely didn't have big tires
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of course, purpose build and factored into design a smaller tire is fine. 275/295 isn't really considered small either. its all about balance.