255/50/17 tires on 8s ?

nhra427

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I am thinnking of going with a little taller tire on stang. right now i have 245/45/17 on it and they are really noise and track. The wheels were on my 99 GT. Anyway does anyone runn the 255/50s? If so how do they ride and any pics?

 

DoubleONegative

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i have 255/45s on my 01 Cobra 8inch rims

so yeah they will fit and they don't bulge

 

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shooterm1

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nhra427 said:

I am thinnking of going with a little taller tire on stang. right now i have 245/45/17 on it and they are really noise and track. The wheels were on my 99 GT. Anyway does anyone runn the 255/50s? If so how do they ride and any pics?

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here's a tire height chart > http://www.sstire.com/tireheights.html

hth ~

 

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Here are some pics of my Fuzion ZRi 255/50/17's.

 

05 Horseplay

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255/50ZR17

Attached is a pic of my BFG - G-force TA KDWS.

So far they have proved to be a good all round tire.

 

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nhra427

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05 Horseplay said:

Attached is a pic of my BFG - G-force TA KDWS.

So far they have proved to be a good all round tire.

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Those are the tires I am looking to get. Thanks for the imput. I started a thread about differnt size tires.

 

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05 Horseplay said:

they have proved to be a good all round tire

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a good all round tire???

I didn't know there was any other kind ...

 

05 Horseplay

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That was good - I walked right into that one.

So far they have helped me to a best ET of 13.26 at 106 yesterday at Pacific Raceways.

And they were round all the way.