16x8.5 & 16x9.5 Tire help?

[High5er]

Hi all,

I just picked up a set of 16x7 Hayashi Techno R's off of local CL. Lips are kinda curbed and the color is horrid IMO. Anyways, I'm waiting on some lips to arrive from the east coast. I picked up 3 and 4 inch lips so that leaves me with a grand total of 8.5" up front and 9.5" in the back when I add the 5.5" barrel

I'd like to keep a meaty tire but I don't want to rub. Im going to be pretty low as well. Like pushing snow low lol. Ive never been very knowledgable with tire sizes and was wondering if yall could help a brotha out.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for the help

Gabe

[sonikaccord]

My suggestion is to just find pics of the rim width that you have width different tire sizes to find which one you like best. We really can't tell you what you like...well we could cause we're cool like that..

There is a sticky about posting your wheel pics in the regular section, fyi.

[F20A CB7]

215 45 or 50

[High5er]

My suggestion is to just find pics of the rim width that you have width different tire sizes to find which one you like best. We really can't tell you what you like...well we could cause we're cool like that..

There is a sticky about posting your wheel pics in the regular section, fyi.

Yeah i understand its more of a preference thing but I kinda just wanted a starting point. Just to give a better idea of what im looking for, I'd like to stretch the tires a bit just because I like the look of it. nothing crazy though.

[High5er]

215 45 or 50

215? Would that be too meaty? Im going to google around and see what some tire sizes look like but like I said, I have very little experience with tires. I'm new to this forum so I'm still learning all of the rules.. the hard way lol I wasnt sure if I could post in other sections yet

[stanceaccord]

check out tyrestretch.com and you can see all size rims widths and tire sizes to see what you like

[High5er]

check out tyrestretch.com and you can see all size rims widths and tire sizes to see what you like

is this real? or are you just yankin my chain? dont toy with my emotions now...

[High5er]

So I went on that site.. most unorganized list of sizes ever lol but for the 8.5 I might go 195/45. still looking around on the 9.5

[High5er]

Update: I think Im going with 195/45 up front as mentioned earlier and 205/45 out back. I tried that website but its really roughly set up. I guess Im going to just have to trial and error it for now. Its all a learning experience right?

[drew12000]

http://www.willtheyfit.com/

[High5er]

http://www.willtheyfit.com/

Ahh thanks, That was actually just what I needed.

[AccordWarrior]

Eeesh, the tires sizes people are using these days are terrifying...195 on a 8.5 wheel?

I considering going down to a 235 on an 8.5 on the toy and that scares me that I'm too narrow.

I will never understand stretching tires. It just seems terribly impractical.

[High5er]

[QUOTE=AccordWarrior;3177304]Eeesh, the tires sizes people are using these days are terrifying...195 on a 8.5 wheel?

I considering going down to a 235 on an 8.5 on the toy and that scares me that I'm too narrow.

I will never understand stretching tires. It just seems terribly impractical.[/QUOTE

I'm still not sure. I might just go 205 all the way around. Like I said, I'm not good with tire sizes

[Jarrett]

Anything less than 245 on that wide of a tire is impractical and unsafe.

[bobbycos]

if you really and i mean really want a stupidly low profile tire on a rim, just do it the idiot way

cut the sidewall completely out of the tire then glue the tread itself to the rim

you will have the lowest profile tire of anybody BUT you will not be able to drive at all.

this would be for pure show and i mean pure show only