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Old Jan 14, 2015 | 06:23 PM
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At what size tire is a car considered to be a big tired car?
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Old Jan 14, 2015 | 06:56 PM
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I believe it's bigger than a 29x10.5
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Old Jan 14, 2015 | 07:06 PM
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29.5x10.5W and smaller in small tire. the heads up classes break are normally 11.3 measured tread face and smaller is a small tire, 11.5 measured tread face and up is a large tire.
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 08:32 AM
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Around the Chicago area 28x10.5 is max for small tire. these guys on 29.5 x 10.5's we consider them in with the big tire cars.
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Old Jan 23, 2015 | 05:50 PM
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29.5 and smaller is "small tire" in my opinion. Anything bigger is a "big tire"
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Old Jan 23, 2015 | 06:08 PM
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In the north 28x10.5 is the standard small tire. if someone showed up for a street race with a 29.5 people are going to bitch for sure. Now down south like oklohoma and texas, 29.5 all day is considered small.
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Old Jan 27, 2015 | 11:38 PM
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what is it with all the cry baby's lately wanting to limit street stuff to 28/10.5's? I think it's people are getting to lazy to set their cars up so they want to drag everybody down to their level.
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Old Jan 29, 2015 | 10:45 AM
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You mean too lazy to make their cars work so they slap a bigger tire on to fix the problem. My car works just fine on the street on a 200 shot with 28x10.5's. It just took weeks of testing on our road to get the suspension working. I say slapping a 29.5 on is the lazy way out.
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You mean too lazy to make their cars work so they slap a bigger tire on to fix the problem. My car works just fine on the street on a 200 shot with 28x10.5's. It just took weeks of testing on our road to get the suspension working. I say slapping a 29.5 on is the lazy way out.
How fast is it?
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Old Jan 29, 2015 | 12:42 PM
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Its a grudge/ street race car so i'm not posting time slips but its been in the single digits for years.
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