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Old 08-10-2016, 02:15 PM   #13 (permalink)
mwilliamshs
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Originally Posted by mcrews View Post
...The 13 inch tires would have given better off the line acceleration.....given the typical gearing in the fortys.
I read things here often of this ilk but I'll never understand how the diameter of a wheel influences gearing, except to the possible extent of tire availability.

It's the tire that changes effective gearing, not the wheel on which it's mounted. A 27" tire on a 16" wheel and a 27" tire on a 13" wheel both turn the same number of times in a mile, period.

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