Thread: My next move with hiboy's metamorphosis

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It's official, I'll be taking the plunge and switching from radial tires to old school Bias Plys.

Don't try to talk me out of it, I want to try them and then I'll decide if I can handle it or not.

I am going to need radials for the full feature movie I am goind to film next. (What, I DIDN'T TELL YOU ABOUT THAT YET?????) ... (more on it later)

I will be keeping my 15 inch wheels. I will go to a highest size or second to highest to fill my wheel well as much as possible. I know this will affect my RPMs etc...

I do not know what my gear ratio is. I HAVE A 350 AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION with three speeds. I do know my RPMs are always running pretty high. On the freeway at about 55 mph in third gear RPM run about 3K I think? Also when I launch, my 3rd gear comes in very very soon. My cars hardly ever stays in second gear for more than a couple seconds. Once in third gear you cannot ever get it to come back to second on its own unless you manually down shift. Would you guys be able to help me figure out (if there is an easy trick) what my gear ratio might approximately be? I suspect Cocker might be asking me about that when I call to pick rear tire size and order.

I understand a larger tire = lower RPM and it might actually work in my favor in my case. Is it going to affect my drag (launch) much? Meanning will my car still launch as fast? I love fast launches more than anything in the world. A quick street race (bad bad Faith!!) last week with a supped up ricer indicated my car is fast at launching. He was eating my dust. And he was trying hard ). Granted, racing with a ricer is like picking on the retarded cousin HAHA!

Two more questions:

1- WHITE WALLS? or BLACK WALLS?

2- and: cocker Bias ply front tire with slight wavy pattern for a better handling on turns OR traditional straight line pattern for a more period correct look and less handling...

Any words of advice (other than DON"T get bias plys) from anyone?

Thanks you all,

FAITH (heading out to work - yuk)