Ugh. I don't run wild stretched tires because i need all the grip I can get in this car now. But at one point in time, I did stretch tires. Guess what never happened... Everything you said.


Do you have any experience or are you just a keyboard racer?

yea deff with a sledge hammer. its going to take alot of beating the shit out of it. :wallbash:

+1

i have always run a stretch because otherwise i cant spin my wheels with my vag spec hp numbers. i drive on a stretch daily and have been doing events on stretch since day one and yea once i had a
tire come off drifting..........not

fender does hit rim alot. kinda annoying but i love the little jet stream tire smoke off the front fenders while achieving sidewaysness

God damn drifters and their stretched tires!

http://www.geocities.com/simontmalle...gal/bmwg02.jpg






Don't knock something if you don't understand the complete setup of the car fully. Its obvious the functionality of it. Well... at least to people who have actually driven. If you can slightly stretch a tire to make its sidewall a bit stiffer, you get better response out of the tire. Its a bit more dramatic loss of grip at the limit if you are used to over-driving your car, but it definitely has a positive benefit for SOME PEOPLE. Oh wow, imagine that.


Get fucked.

I just look at things differently?
If you cant use the wide tires. You shouldnt have the wide/bigger rims? right? Your are basicly adding weight to you rotating mass for the looks? Sounds good.(sarcasm)

I have never seen a tire come off with an extreme stretch. Dont know if it can. But I always figured If you were sideways and happened to hit a lip on the road at a almost 90deg. angle that it would hit the tire wall hard enough to push it inwards?
Does that sound so impossible? More likely to happen when drifting on public street roads with many imperfections. I drift public roads often. And im pretty sure that a stretched tire is the last thing you want on public roads.

what ya think
 

Aussie 1st gen wide body drifter.....13B turbo
rear is now 70mm wider front approx 40mm wider
WORK 3 piece wheels, porsche lightweight reacing centres used
full race LSD, lightened flywheel and exedy ceramic drift clutch
big front mount cooler.....bosch motorsport f/pump
greddy boost control
2nd gen 4 spot brakes on front
almost finished.............

i got this far into your 2nd post in this thread to officially decide you play too much need for speed or something.

wider rims and spacers are for a wider stance, increasing stability.

welcome to racing 101, idiot.

SO, by stretching tires on wide rims you get best of both worlds. wider stance without all of the added grip of say a 255 tire. drifting needs some grip yes, but running stock power levels you want as little as possible.

also stretched tires are only close to popping off in the case of EXTREME stretching. normal stretching that most people run are just fine

ok now i have experience with stretch
there was an old pirelli hand book that used a rule of thumb, if u get 2 tyres of the same size i.e 205/65/15 put one on a 6in rim and one on a 7in rim, the tyre on the 7in actually becomes wider and effectively becomes 215/60/15 tyre
now i have worked with tyres for almost 15 yrs and used to fit and supply some of the best drifters in australia with secondhand tyres , and also race/drift wheel alignment/suspension modification etc
STRECTED tyres are absolutely necessary and anyone saying otherwise is wrong
i have fitted 225/35/19 tyres on 19x11.5 rims.......if youre good enough to get em to blow up and smart enough to put 55-60 psi in em they wont pull off the bead,
however when they deflate they will pop straight off the beads so caution must be used with extreme.....and this is the most extreme case!!!!!!
common stretched fitments
205s or 215s on 8in fronts......(standard fitment on 6in rims)
225s or 235s on 9in fronts and rears....(standard fitment on 8in rims)
265s on 10 or 11in+rears.....(standard fitment on 9 in rims)
if u dont believe me still go to ya mums car and push the rear bumper sideways, in a back and forth motion, cars with standard fitment tyres will dance/wobble back and forth.......really nice for comfort but we own Rx7s here.........
im running 215/40/17 on 8in F and 235/40/17 on 9in rears
not excessive, no play/wobble just razor sharp feel especially on change of direction.......PHEW

ooook, here we go again with the whole hipari, gay ppl, and the 20yr pro keyboard racer.... Its a picture thread ppl... And its the only reason y I'm on rx7gayclub... Pictures!!!

So post em or gtfo..... Please ;)

My bad. I guess i suck balls.

I guess im too opinionated for my own good.=P

heres how i feel about it.
Do I stretch my tires to improve the response.........YES
Have i blown the bead off my tire from the stretch..YES (yes, its actually happens)
Do I give a fuck.............................................. ...........NO

So STFU and post some pics.

215/45/17 on a 9J. Did NOT blow the bead on this one

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...7/STH70783.jpg

Whats up guys heres a few pics. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45...lcony6608a.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45...lcony6608b.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45...lcony6608c.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45...37-resized.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45...h/IMG_0790.jpg

I love the stang wheels. Looks good. ANd by the way i like how stretched tires look.

i gotta say i see this guy on myspace all the time lol

but here is some of mine


btw guys, i feel great looking through this thread, i was always...dissapointed that my car used to always look like shit, now i am happy to see that everyone who is even close to being a "drifter' car looks like complete shit too :hahaha:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16.../IMG_02522.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16.../IMG_02512.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...Myspace/v3.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...yspace/web.jpg


yea, that was my old car though, and funny enough, that was just a NA car with a gxl diff, and racingbeat rear steer eliminators. No coilovers, no angle kits, or anything special, just balls

but I finally got my hands on a TII now and have lots of good stuff for it, just needs to get it running right

My drift set up !
 

Still some what a FC lol Hey I bought the car blown up i didnt kill a 7

lookin good backalleyracer, i normally hate s4 moldings but you pull off the black/blue theme well.

what rear spoiler is that? wangan style?

its a real re amemiya spoiler, thinking about selling it....

i'll buy it for one whole dollar. shipped.

More Desert Drift Pics
 

http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild001.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild011.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild071.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild073.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild074.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild017.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild019.jpg

And more deser drift pics
 

http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild116.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild118.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild119.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild140.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild148.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild151.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild157.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...ceswild597.jpg

And more desert drift pics
 

more to come!

prolly start another thread for just random drift pics. dope pictures tho

those were from the last event and i threw some of the homies in... who dosent like to see a R32 with a stroked, ported, fully built RB24 tear it up in the valley of the sun. Just representing all the sick cats from AZ who continue to run badass events.

throw some pics up of forrest's car then.. it's by far the best drift car in az.

you're doing asb this year right!?!?

im hella pissed i couldn't get the days off. do work son, do work.

got my roof spoiler yesterday and got it on.. and it doesn't go with my car as well as i hoped it would, lol. dark camera phone pics..

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...z/spoiler1.jpg

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...z/spoiler2.jpg

Somone say forrest? i have the tandem runs on my camera also
 

http://www.desertimports.com/events/...owdown_022.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...owdown_069.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...owdown_177.jpg
http://www.desertimports.com/events/...owdown_249.jpg

There ya go Justin.
Forrest is one chill mofo... just gets high and drifts all the time. now thats the life!

Ahh PIR

Actually its the P1 Drift Track, Tucson. There is another AZ Drift Machine event there Oct 25th.... Its a mirror Suzuka, so it has the badass decreasing radius ebrake entry, Forrest will be there, so will some other 808 cats

It's P1 Kart track. We just started using it for drift :)

I think I have to enter the OCT event to try this track out. SIR and FIR are getting boring

Here is mine
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l...c/DSC00061.jpg

getting better
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ntitled-21.jpg

Me and Forsberg. This pic is cool cause my car's chassis was actually Chris's first drift car ever. Its changed hands a couple of times, but its back in the Drift Alliance family. You know he's trying to catch up so he can take it back... its never looked so good!
http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...sb4/day2/7.jpg


Me and JTP. DA Aces! This pic looks retarded cause I'm in the middle of transition from the top right hander to the downhill left hander and Larry snapped the foto where it looks like I'm not drifting. Oh well, JTP's got a camera mounted to the front of his car, be on the lookout for the footage at some point in time.
http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/40.jpg


And here's one of just my car:
http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/39.jpg


And my roommate Tony who actually had my chassis after Forsberg, but before me. It was green in his hands, and had an SR20DET swapped into it, etc. Keeping the Rotary theme. The RX8 has an FD 13BT and it goes like hell. Also, I designed his car (and Forsberg's too!)
http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/54.jpg

DA got the best support in the scene, keep it up man, i hope i could have cool friends like that

Dorifto PG.....

Man that is awesome. if i didnt had my fd I would definetly be rocking a widebody FC. I see you hang out with quite the crowed.

When was the last time you came here? We've got some damn good cars.

Joe's LS1 S14
Chase's new Purple S13
George's LS1 FC(soon to be completed)

They are very good looking and performing cars.

those are some beautiful pictures, looking forward to more !!

maybe one day i can join you guys on the track :)

there was a whole lotta rotary love at asb.

http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...sb4/day2/2.jpg

http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/24.jpg

(why the hell did you leave this beautiful pic out of your post)
http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/16.jpg

http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/22.jpg

http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/26.jpg

http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/27.jpg

http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/52.jpg

http://www.larrychendesign.com/all_s...b4/day2/22.jpg

well, my car has an ls6 in it, but its still an FC chassis!

damn, it seems fc are stepping up their game, nice to see something other than 20 silvia's

Do you have pics of what you used to get the back end of the hood raised

http://www.gtfactory.jp/cms/e107_plu...D%2Fasb782.jpg
http://www.gtfactory.jp/cms/e107_plu...E%2Fasb827.jpg
http://www.gtfactory.jp/cms/e107_plu...E%2Fasb846.jpg

yo justin glad seeing you there. i was with matt and them at jack in the box when you were there. i woulda said wassup but i lost my voice cuz somehow i got bronchitis while i was there lol

DAMN!!! that is some rotary love at that event. I was the only rx7 period at the last event i went to with my shitacular fc :)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/...d3067391_b.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b2...4/DSC_0029.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...2/IMG_6078.jpg

damn, that fc is looking good skizzle !

old short vid from street swanging days before, my motor blew and before I got caught street swanging.Used to drift daily on the streets, it was to apoint where I was used to it and itwas anormal thing to drive like that..then finally learned my lesson after I drifted in front of 3 cops 2am in the morning..... Its not worth getting caught. I got aressted,released on site luckily. and it wasnt even in my fc, itwas in my dads ford lincoln mark lt truck.[yeah dumb huh....] impounded for 30 days, and I just got it out recently it was $1200 to get out.. so now I have to save $$ and pay off that credit card. been painting cars like mad to pay for that truck...and all my stupid tickets.. I learnedmy lesson tho, the hard way of coarse.. so after all this bills is cleared and my new rebuild engine is started and broken in, i will finally just enter events lol the nearest track is willow springs. So many fc guys there. from the pics above ^^^

damn I i wish I had some more footage of my car drifting back then on the streets. This is the only vid from a cell phone because nobody i knew had avideo camera.i have crazy ass stories lol. one time i drifted a a right turn and a lady saw me do it as she was coming from the otehr side of traffic and she busted a bitch and she chased me down to a stop light and then i saw in my rear view mirror her looking for a pen holding a paper trying to get my license plate i guess lol, i got scared!!!!! and just peeled out on her ran the red lol.. and on valentines day my girl left me so i was depressed, and myfriend was depressed too because no dates, so we went guerrilaa street drifting for like 2 hours straight lol. damnn memories.....i wish i had a VID CAMERA lol....damngagyyy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...h_Video006.jpg

Thanks! Now I just need more than 110 horsepower so I can put out some freaking smoke and go faster! haha my exhaust is broken in a million pieces. Welded diffs rock btw. I had the stock 1.5 clutch type in there for a while, but I put in the welded a few days ago and have never loved the car as much as I do now.

JTP and Dorifto PG (Lindsay right?), fucking AWESOME pictures. Awesome pictures because of awesome sliding. Hot damn I love your cars. a lot.

We need less people like you in the world.

I wasn't going to say anything but.... Ditto!

I love how CJ seriously did like 10 laps around htm with his exhaust dragging