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What MPH at 3000 RPM? 140-160 1974

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posted by  KLR142 on  Fri Sep 5 08:59 CST 2003
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The smaller wheels will not affect the speedometer readings. The thing that it changes, is your actual speed, your car will say it's going 65 when in reality it is going slower because of the shorter diameter tires. So your readings/rpm will not change along with different tire diameters. Only your actual speed. The reason I know so much about this topic is because I had the problem of buying a car from a jackass who didn't know anything about the car. So, It had the volvo 240GL 14" alloy rims on it, (which looked awesome by the way, just too small) with bald tires, and so I got some new 195/60/14 and my actual speed was much lower than my readings. For example, with those tires, I went an indicated 112mph at 6000rpm with 4.10 in fourth. In reality I was only going 102mph or something like that. I was pissed that I bought new tires and they were no where near the correct size. So I lost money doing that....

Yeah, so check out that site, it's really awesome.
Peace,
Kyle

http://gs.tolan-hoechst.com/tirecalc.htm






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