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Not Another Wheel Question................
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:17 pm
by custommartin
A slightly weird question but here goes;-
Can someone please tell me the radius (or diameter if it's easier!) of a standard Minor wheel AND tyre?!
(BTW I know the wheel is 14 inches - sorry)
Thanks
Martin
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:44 pm
by aupickup
well you know the 8cwt had wider rims LOL
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:58 pm
by custommartin
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Not THAT again Dennis!!!
(BTW - You should have seen what I WAS going to add to the post.......
)
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:03 pm
by aupickup
you should have done
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:12 pm
by custommartin
I KNOW!
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:32 pm
by plastic_orange
Please save the following attachment for all references to tyres/wheels.
Cheers
Pete
http://www.chris-longhurst.com/carbible ... bible.html
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:46 pm
by Onne
I wish I had mine outside, I would have ran outside and measured. Very good website btw Pete. Couldn't one just calculate it?
145/80x14 which means the side wall of the tyre is 80% of 145mm
80% of 145mm= 116mm= 4,6"
wheel diameter is 14"
2 x 4,6" as we need both the top and bottom bits of tyre
Add that to the 14"
4,6"x 2= 9,2"
9,2"+ 14"= 23,2 "
Grand total 23,2" (in the rough)
But I could just be utterly wrong, maths was never a strong point, could someone please measure up??????
Onne
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:23 am
by Blunt
great link pete...
fascinating bit about twin tyres
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:21 pm
by rayofleamington
Onne - you got the basic calculation correct. There are some additional small fudge factors regarding tyre pressure and weight of the car (how much the tyre is squashed) to give the rolling radius.
I've no idea how that bit is calculated but the one you used gives a near enough result to compare the size of one wheel / tyre combination to any other.
And what's with this inches stuff? I had to convert it back to the present century to check your result ;-)
inches
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:28 pm
by Willie
ONNE.... ignore RAY re inches, you are talking my kind of language!
RE: inches
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:36 pm
by rayofleamington
ONNE.... ignore RAY re inches, you are talking my kind of language!
;-)
Re: Not Another Wheel Question................
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:15 pm
by custommartin
custommartin wrote:A slightly weird question but here goes;-
Can someone please tell me the radius (or diameter if it's easier!) of a standard Minor wheel AND tyre?!
(BTW I know the wheel is 14 inches - sorry)
Thanks
Martin
Thanks to Les,
I have the answer
The total diameter is 23 and 13/16 inches (Firestone tyre), so you know.
Cheers
Martin
RE: Re: Not Another Wheel Question................
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:21 pm
by Onne
Not too bad a calculation then! A bit more as I calculated, but that is probably down to rounding of the numbers.