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Originally Posted by bestclimb
If you go with taller tires but not wider I think you could see some slight gains. I am making the assumption that the aero is so bad on a samurai that the slight increase in drag from taller tires will be lost in the noise so to speak. I know the guys modding the samurai like the shorter 5th but that is for much larger tires, where they are trying to get some torque back.
I currently have 225 75 15s with out any lift. I have no trouble with the tire touching. If you could find a 225 70 or 65 you may see some improvement. If the tires are wider than stock I would bet you would loose a little mileage. This is assuming that the increase in tire drag is lost in the rest of the drag of the rig and that the engine is still in an effecient rpm range for your speed. I know these things love to rev and need to be wound up a bit to make head way.
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My cousin has an old willy's wagon that he always puts tall narrow tires on for fitment reasons.
It says on your tagline that you only get 18.23mpg's out of your samurai, are you running in 4x4 a lot? I know from my experience with using hypermiling techniques in old toyota 4x4's that I could get about 15% over epa stock, I hope I could do this with the samurai too. Have you tried any driving tricks with yours? do you have super low gears in it or anything?
You are the only sammy owner on hear so your info would be super valuable to me.