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How does changing rims affect cars performance?
so if I change the wheels on a car and make them bigger for cosmetic reasons how will it affect or the performance ?
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Upgrade your brakes too.
If it's a car or a truck and you significantly increase the moving mass you're going to want to increase the braking power of your car too. Most people spend their next 5 paychecks on the rims that the extra $2 or $3k for brakes isn't considered. Brembo makes kits for many popular cars and trucks. |
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Could be good or bad. Bigger wheels could help you transfer more HP and torque to the road, but it could also alter your ride in several ways.
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More rotational mass = more power it takes to make the wheel spin = more power being used by engine.
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Adding unsprung rotational weight to the car will cause a much more noticeable performance drop than say, adding the same amount of weight in bricks to the trunk. Cars aren't about power, they're about power-to-weight. Dropping the weight off your car has the same effect as gaining the equivilant amount of horsepower... Of course on a decent car you won't notice anything, but if you've got under 240 horsepower and replace your stock 17" wheels with some 19" chromies, you're going to notice the car is missing a little something when you accelerate through the gears. |
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Changing wheel/tire dimensions will always impact on a car's handling because of the resulting changes to suspension and steering geometry. If the manufacturer has skimped on wheels and/or tires, such changes might be an improvement, but that is a dangerous assumption. Changes to the total diameter of wheel and tire will affect overall gear ratios and therefore performance. Moving away from recommended tire types and sizes will often give a poorer and/or noisier ride. Wheel/tire changes often put extra stress on other components which will shorten their life and in extreme cases, prove dangerous. Unless posing is all that matters, changing any dynamic component on a car is a job for someone who knows everything which needs to be changed to make the new parts work well with the originals that remain. |
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Botom line. bigger rims = strange gear ratio. Your spedometer will be inacurate and you'll lose HP at the wheels and put more strain on your drive components
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The big performance factor is weight -- the expensive alloys are much lighter, increasing steering responsiveness.
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My guess is you'll see little to no performance gain.
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if you put bigger wheels you should gain 250 hp
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