Best Tires For Stretching

[Potenza]

I've hit kerbs running 195 on 10inch (see pic below), bent the rim and the tyre hasn't popped off. If you manage to pop any tyre off any rim then please teach me how to do it.

Teach you? Your already well on the way.

That is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

[funkymonkey]

I've hit kerbs running 195 on 10inch (see pic below), bent the rim and the tyre hasn't popped off.

are those 15's? you've got a huge sidewall, so it'll have more give in it. lot harder to do that on lower profile tyres.

the way tyres are designed these days with dual locking bands etc, its a lot harder to pop em off.

hell i've run my tyre at 12PSI in a lap around a track and it didn't pop off. did get told off for not checking tyre pressures before goin out when I came into pits and complained about car not handling properly

[FineLine]

sometime you will notice some tires will give a more stretched look than other tires of the same size on the same rim.

this is obviously caused by the design of the tire, more specifically the rim protector im assuming.

what i would like to know from your experiance, what model tire gives the best stretched look???

i like the bridgestone potenza re40- agressive side wall protector

also some falkens lok nice stretched

anymore guys? maybe even some pics of your stretched look skylines?

No doubt you need this to compliment your fully sic uleh bov sound.

[Rolls]

Stretched tyres are the latest gay thing to do. Buy proper sized tyres and you will get better traction/grip.

Drifting is the only reason to stretch tyres.

Edited November 16, 2007 by Rolls

[Beer Baron]

I've hit kerbs running 195 on 10inch (see pic below), bent the rim and the tyre hasn't popped off. If you manage to pop any tyre off any rim then please teach me how to do it.

that's a lot of stretch, but a 195/60 14 on a 14X10 is one thing, but getting say a low profile 17 in that width (if they even make them) onto a 10 is a recipe for disaster.

[dodgybrooks]

Stretched tyres are the latest gay thing to do. Buy proper sized tyres and you will get better traction/grip.

Drifting is the only reason to stretch tyres.

Stretching isn't a recent thing at all mate, been going on for years. And another good reason for doing it is so you can fit huge dished rims on a car so low that scrapes on man holes. Read up about 1980s Japanese 'Zokusha'.

that's a lot of stretch, but a 195/60 14 on a 14X10 is one thing, but getting say a low profile 17 in that width (if they even make them) onto a 10 is a recipe for disaster.

Yea 195/60/14 gives you a bit of tyre wall to play with. I recon you would have a hard time getting the air into a 195 low profile on a 17, it just wouldn't seal.

[Rolls]

Stretching isn't a recent thing at all mate, been going on for years. And another good reason for doing it is so you can fit huge dished rims on a car so low that scrapes on man holes. Read up about 1980s Japanese 'Zokusha'.

Why not just get rims that fit the car in the first place?

[Potenza]

Exactly Rolls

[dodgybrooks]

You boys are thinking backwards. You make the car fit the wheels.

Zokusha is kinda like the ute culture in Aus. Feral.

http://jp.youtube.com/user/jyoutou

I am simply making the best of what I have. 9 and 10 inch wheels and in 14s,195/60 are the most common and cheap size. Cheap is good when at best they only last a day's play.

Edited November 16, 2007 by dodgybrooks

[GTS4WD]

You boys are thinking backwards. You make the car fit the wheels.

Zokusha is kinda like the ute culture in Aus. Feral.

http://jp.youtube.com/user/jyoutou

I am simply making the best of what I have. 9 and 10 inch wheels and in 14s,195/60 are the most common and cheap size. Cheap is good when at best they only last a day's play.

I thought it was called yankee

[sh@un]

but getting say a low profile 17 in that width (if they even make them)

I don't think 17 inch tyres come any narrower than 205

[funkymonkey]

I've heard of bosozoku, yankee and highway racer style applied to them, maybe zokusha is slang for bosozoku or something.

They're just a group of enthusiasts who style 1970's and 1980's cars kinda in the theme of the then race cars, and then some. They're pretty much the Torana and Gemini drivers of Japan. Anyways, they've been around a lot longer than the drifters... and the reason they stretch tyres is:

1. its a lot cheaper to stretch a narrow tyre onto a wider rim, than buying a wider tyre.

2. its part of the "look"... so even though they may own a $50,000 KPGC10, they'll still stretch the tyre because its part of the tradition now.

3. They don't give a rats ass about performance. Its the stigma they care about.

Now fast forward to Australian "drift look" cars. I use this term because half the muppets running around these days with BN Sports kits and vertex kits and "omg dishhhh" wheels with stretched tyres, would get their panties all up in a bunch when you ask them to drift their car for real. I mean... who'd want to gutter bash their $3000 Professor SP1's right? And no fishies down a wide road or getting your arse end out around a curb in your neighbourhood doesn't cut the mustard either.

So onto the real reason for stretching your tyres if you are a drifter:

1. 99% of real drifters aren't sponsored, are poor and can barely afford to keep their cars on the road. Wide tyres are out of the question. Find tyres that your local tyre shop or service centre is throwing away (out the back, ask for em) and make them fit the wheel.

2. You car is stupid low to the ground, your guards are flared and your wheels are just the right offset that they sit flush with your guards, or just slightly out. If you were to run the right sized tyre for your wheels then you'd scrape the f**k out of them with your guard when you corner or when there's weight in your car. So you stretch the tyre, and the angle of the sidewall corresponds or tucks nicely with the flaring of the guard.

If you find a so called drifter that's running wide wheels, with stretched tyres and you can fit more than one finger between the top of his tyre and his guard, then go over to him and punch him in the c**t and tell him to either fit better tyres or lower his car.

Seriously... I'm sick and tired of looking at 4WD height drift style cars and posers running around with "omg sickkk dishh" wheels and $4000 paintjobs on their vertex/uras copy kits claiming to be drift superstars.

[funkymonkey]

here's a couple of examples of where a stretched tyre is practical:

From the US:

From Adelaide:

Here's an example of a "drift style" car with a 4wd ride height

remember kids, stretched tyre and gap between wheel and car or 4WD style ride height = punch in the c**t.

Do it properly or don't do it at all.

[Rolls]

Wow how does that second to last pic get anywhere without scraping the f**k out his rims/tyres.

[FineLine]

Wow how does that second to last pic get anywhere without scraping the f**k out his rims/tyres.

Simple, It rides so hard the guy is now 3 foot tall from spine compression.

[Rolls]

Simple, It rides so hard the guy is now 3 foot tall from spine compression.

Ridiculous.

[salad]

Didn't you know? Performance cars are about looks and wank lists rather than performance now.

[dodgybrooks]

Car in Japanese is sha, so a Bosozoku car is a Bosozokusha, or Zokusha.

[funkymonkey]

Car in Japanese is sha, so a Bosozoku car is a Bosozokusha, or Zokusha.

ahhh lol makes sense.

[adam-__-]

Does this pass for a reason to have stretched tyres?