I was wondering if this would be an ok setup. 295/50/16's Miickey Thompson ET streets on stock salad shooters (16x8)

I was loking at the page on Summit Racing and saw that it was within the recommend wheel width. A few friends seemed to think that it was not a good idea, what do you guys think?

 

295s on an 8inch wheels seems like a bad idea to me. never heard of anyone doin that.

 

As I told you via text message. Biggest I personally would put on a 16x8 is a 255/50/16 (IIRC, that's what came on C4 Vettes with 16's)

 

I don't care about how wide they are, I just want the tires to hook like a bat out of hell. I guess I will keep searching for something else.

 

Eric do you approve of this?

 

I bet you'll get best time out of ET Streets on 16" Salad Shooters, without going to a slick / racing wheels (Pro Stars?) You want lots of sidewall. Plus salad shooters are relatively light.

 

Exactly, to big of a tire on a 8" rim, will not have the right footprint. I wouldn't go with a tire more than a 1/2 inch wider than the wheel. And by the way, Summit and other catalogs, always have mistakes in them, when recommending tire size to wheel size, let alone other mistakes.

 

The M/T website shows the acceptable wheel width as 8.0-10.0", but then they contradict this by saying "Acceptable practice for rim width is tread width plus or minus 1''. Using that guideline, a tire like this with a 10.8" tread width requires a 9.0 - 10.5" wide wheel.

The tire specs also carry this note:

 

Bad over hang(bulge) on wheel, plus it might rub against the inner fender........

 

That would be cross section, and yes very inportant to keep in mind when picking your tires.