[2001 ZTS]

dad,Mar 17 2005, 01:05 AM Wrote:I use to road rally my corrolla wiht deep dish BBS wheels and a 10 mill streach.....this setup gave the car a much quicker turn in and the ability to get oversteer on command....

Having said that, all the same judgment calls have to be made when setting this up....A really low propfile tire ...say a 40 series prolly should not be streached at all ...we used 50 series and experimented up to a 15 mil. stretch.....never once did it cause any danger to myself or anyone else for that matter....the original purpose for tire streching was to give yet another posibility of how to cheaply and quickly change the handling characteristics of your car....Yuo have to remember when this originally started there was not the massive amounts of suspension and handling equipment available through the after market . We made use of as many of these little tricks as possible....and yes tire streaching had a very important place in amatuer racing.....Now we just change the hiegth and  damping rates of our adjustable coilovers....turn in the adjustable sway bar and .......turn in and oversteer are there on command....

truthfully....I think it is cool on a tire with a bigger side wall....
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Now that is what I call an ANSWER and I'm not ashamed to admit to learning something from it. Very interesting. I also note the stretches you used where not as "extreme" as what we are seeing.

EDIT: Back in the day every car I remember had a wee bit or zero stretch. The typical bulge common these days is a result of radial tire technology isn't it?