best size wheels

[whitstella]

hi fokes

just wondering what are the best size wheels and tyres for a haynes.???
just looking for a set now to get my chassis rolling. cheers

[loony]

Minimal wheel/rim size is 15" (someone write that in some cases steel 14" is OK).
So to keep it lightweight you want 15"... and 195/50R15 tyres.

[fabbyglass]

Steel wheels are normally lighter than clunky alloys unless the alloys are magnesium efforts which are then a bit iffy on our crap pot holed roads....oh and bloody expensive.

[baz-r]

anything as light as the roadster will suffer from too low profile tyres
there is no rubber bussing in the suspension as well so unless your building a track tool i would not be going too big
also look common tyre sizes as if you want to go for an odd size it starts to get expensive.

i could never get it that alloys where sposed to be lighter but rarely where :D
wounder if you can still get wellers?

[fabbyglass]

Weller motorsport wheels were good but doubt you can get them anymore

[spud69]

If you're going Sierra dash then stick with 195x50/15" they'll give you the correct reading for the speedo off the gearbox feed. Also tyres are nice and cheap for this size to - Toyo Proxes T1-r full set for £130 and they are a good sticky tyre.

Andrew