Hello All,
I was working on my CMod car for the next season and thought I would watch the FC race on TV when the commentator said "these FC with their skinny tires" What? so I watched and then decided to looked up the rim and tire size for the FC.
So this is what I found for the FF/CM cars that we run, The 43130 would be the traditional FF front tire size but we all use 46164 which is a FC front tire so were all half way there just not the rim size.
Now if we go to the rear the 43309 is what I use and the 43286 would be the FC rear tire, so I said Hmmm.. what do my measured contact patch look like, interesting 8 inches that hits the ground ok not sure what the is the real contact patch for the FC rear tire but because their not using a cantilever rear tire it could be very close to what Hoosier advertises at 8.5 inches.
So that is a .5 inch wider rear tire if we were to use the FC rear tires. I know the expense of buying new rims for some could be on the wrong side of being more expensive but FF rims are still very popular so it's not like you couldn't sell them. If Hoosier made up their mind one day and Bails on building the cantilever rear tire, thats not to say they wouldn't make the rear cantilever tires just for the autocross people but just thinking of a possible future.
For me Going to the radial tire even if the would make them in a autocross compound is not going to work for me.
So there's the question, What Do You All Think?
Ben