TheEngineer wrote:derekste wrote:FYI expensive lightweight BBS/Enkei/Ronal racing wheels are NOT budget exempt.
Your car came with rims, so if you show up with something forged, fat, and fancy, you will get scrutiny and likely laps
100% not true
Strictly speaking, this is true. Wheels and tires are budget exempt.
HOWEVER, pretty much no one who's ever rolled up on 275s has left any other part of their car alone. So big tires and expensive wheels—like budget-exempt enormous brakes—on a new Lemons car will invite a closer look at the car.
As pointed out, enormous tires don't seem to make road racing any easier and most teams that put on fat rubber and pack the car full of cheat haven't actually figured out the nuts and bolts of endurance racing to where they actually win. YMMV.
Ultimately, run big tires if you want, just make sure you have enough fender to cover them.
The best big-tire Lemons car of all time was the Bad Decisions Mercedes that had a Big-Block Chrysler mounted in the passenger seat. It never hella worked long enough to find out if 305s actually made it "better," but if that's the kind of build you're going for, by all means, please do that:
Eric Rood
Everything Bagel, 24 Hours of Lemons
eric@24hoursoflemons.com