Stock Tire to New Tire Ratio
JayFidizzy
03-11-2002, 12:10 PM
Just wanted to post this site for you guys who plan on upgrading your wheel and tire size. It'll help you keep from losing power from your tranny.
http://www.7thgencivic.com/stuff/tire_calc.cfm
http://www.7thgencivic.com/stuff/tire_calc.cfm
RedY2KCivic
03-11-2002, 01:43 PM
Hey, thank you so much! I went from stock 14s to 17's, and I've been wondering how much my speedometer is off. Less than going by those speed wagons and trying to get it right, I haven't been able to find anything on how to find that out. :D
JayFidizzy
03-11-2002, 01:49 PM
Not a problem....I was looking for it because i'm about to goto 17's as well and I want to see what I am losing.
RedY2KCivic
03-11-2002, 01:57 PM
Well it says that my speedometer is 3.06% too slow.
Kind of sucks with the 17's though....you can really feel it off the line especially how much longer it takes to get them going. :rolleyes:
Oh well, they look sweet though. :D
Kind of sucks with the 17's though....you can really feel it off the line especially how much longer it takes to get them going. :rolleyes:
Oh well, they look sweet though. :D
iLLuCiv99
03-11-2002, 02:11 PM
Originally posted by RedY2KCivic
Well it says that my speedometer is 3.06% too slow.
Kind of sucks with the 17's though....you can really feel it off the line especially how much longer it takes to get them going. :rolleyes:
Oh well, they look sweet though. :D
That doesn't mean that YOUR CAR is gonna be going 3.06% slower w/ the 17"s on it! It means that when you're going like 60 mph, the speedometer reading it gonna be 3.06% slower, and at 60 mph its gonna be 1.836 slower, so the reading on your speedom is gonna be 58.164 instead of 60mph
Well it says that my speedometer is 3.06% too slow.
Kind of sucks with the 17's though....you can really feel it off the line especially how much longer it takes to get them going. :rolleyes:
Oh well, they look sweet though. :D
That doesn't mean that YOUR CAR is gonna be going 3.06% slower w/ the 17"s on it! It means that when you're going like 60 mph, the speedometer reading it gonna be 3.06% slower, and at 60 mph its gonna be 1.836 slower, so the reading on your speedom is gonna be 58.164 instead of 60mph
RedY2KCivic
03-11-2002, 02:16 PM
Originally posted by iLLuCiv99
That doesn't mean that YOUR CAR is gonna be going 3.06% slower w/ the 17"s on it! It means that when you're going like 60 mph, the speedometer reading it gonna be 3.06% slower, and at 60 mph its gonna be 1.836 slower, so the reading on your speedom is gonna be 58.164 instead of 60mph
lol
OBVIOUSLY!
Sorry, I didn't know I made it seem like that was what I was saying.
I wanted to find out how much my speedo was off, I know it won't make me go slower. <duh> :rolleyes:
Didn't know I came across that way.
All I was saying is that my acceleration off the line is much slower because there's so much more wheel now than what I had before.
:silly:
That doesn't mean that YOUR CAR is gonna be going 3.06% slower w/ the 17"s on it! It means that when you're going like 60 mph, the speedometer reading it gonna be 3.06% slower, and at 60 mph its gonna be 1.836 slower, so the reading on your speedom is gonna be 58.164 instead of 60mph
lol
OBVIOUSLY!
Sorry, I didn't know I made it seem like that was what I was saying.
I wanted to find out how much my speedo was off, I know it won't make me go slower. <duh> :rolleyes:
Didn't know I came across that way.
All I was saying is that my acceleration off the line is much slower because there's so much more wheel now than what I had before.
:silly:
JayFidizzy
03-11-2002, 02:26 PM
Hey guys pick up the new car and driver ......It has a great article on how speedometers on cars do not actually tell the true speed.
nittanys1
03-11-2002, 02:55 PM
Originally posted by JayFidizzy
Hey guys pick up the new car and driver ......It has a great article on how speedometers on cars do not actually tell the true speed.
Yeah i look through it this weekend and i thought something was up before I read that, cuz I would drive by the speed catcher things that tell you how fast you are going and i noticed that the thing said i was going 2 mph slower than i really am. kinda good tho.....
Hey guys pick up the new car and driver ......It has a great article on how speedometers on cars do not actually tell the true speed.
Yeah i look through it this weekend and i thought something was up before I read that, cuz I would drive by the speed catcher things that tell you how fast you are going and i noticed that the thing said i was going 2 mph slower than i really am. kinda good tho.....
JayFidizzy
03-11-2002, 03:12 PM
Yeah the same thing with me the other night...i flew by one doing like 65(according to the speedometer) at it registered me at 61...so i figure that with the variables of the radar is always like 2 miles off plus the speedometer being off by another 2 its about right.
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