Tall Tires

[Charley Davidson]

I need to start mocking up my stuff, I want the tallest& skinniest tires I can find at least for the rear (about 36") if possible. Anybody know anything available in that height range that will look good?

 

[Sam_Fear]

Semi tires? 36" is getting up there!

 

[Charley Davidson]

Semi tires are gonna be real heavy, The biggest regular auto tire I've seen is about 27". Know of anything taller?

33" mudders also but they are too wide. I'm not sure how to convert the #s on Coker tires to get their height

 

[sawzall]

Coker makes tires 30"-32" tall, depending on your wheel choice.

 

[zzrodder]

If you want to go to 20's, Coker has Firestone bias ply tires that are 34" in blackwalls or whitewalls, BFG's that are 35". Also Cokers Excelsior 20's are 35", in radial or bias ply.

 

[Sam_Fear]

That's probably about what you'll get unless you go to a 4x4 tire.

 

[Charley Davidson]

If you want to go to 20's, Coker has Firestone bias ply tires that are 34" in blackwalls or whitewalls, BFG's that are 35". Also Cokers Excelsior 20's are 35", in radial or bias ply.

@ $300 + a pop I don't see that happening

I'm building a relatively light ride with a small motor, would motorcycle tires be OK to use. In theory you would be splitting the weight in half side to side. So each half of the car would be about the weight of a bagger with 2 fat people riding them.[ddd

I'm sure I'm gonna have to go bias but would at least want WW 34" tall would be cool. Good used ones would be awesome too.

 

[sawzall]

I wouldn't use cycle tires, there is a very narrow contact patch on them. they are made to lean over on the sidewall.

 

[shakey56]

Tires

Charley.
I'm gonna use 235X85R16 on my cabover front. They are only 31 inches tall but they have many sizes. You can go to a tire website and they should give you the overall height by size. They are pretty narrow and tall. And they are radials.

They run about $150 bucks each ......hope this helps.

Lynn

 

[gold03]

I'm building my. Project with Mickey Thompson 32X18 rear tires. Lately though I'm thinking of a tall narrow tire on the rear. I like the big and little look but started thinking about narrow rears. Hard to find a 32 inch narrow 15 inch tire.

Gold03

 

[Charley Davidson]

Charley.
I'm gonna use 235X85R16 on my cabover front. They are only 31 inches tall but they have many sizes. You can go to a tire website and they should give you the overall height by size. They are pretty narrow and tall. And they are radials.

They run about $150 bucks each ......hope this helps.

Lynn

White wall?

I've been goggling everything I can think of but not much luck getting results

 

[Charley Davidson]

This is the effect/look I'm going for, want to make my cab look lower/shorter than it really is.

 

[RPM]

this might help you out.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=53

 

[shakey56]

Website

Charley, The link that RPM gave you will give you lots of info if you dig around in it. They are very expensive but I have a local independent tire dealer that priced the 235X85R16 for $150 each. I don't think they are available in whitewall but I'm not sure of that. And they are not a brand name although they are probably manufactured by a major brand. They are highway tread too, BTW.

Later
Lynn

 

[Charley Davidson]

31 1/2" tall? Think I'll mock up at that for now I can make some adjustments if needed later.

Thanks. If anybody knows of a WW in that size please let me know.

 

[mikec4193]

Hey Charley

I am not sure if I would be any help or not but I am in the process of getting tires for my 1947 CJ2A and the rim is like 4.5" wide and is a 16.00" rim. If you want an agressive looking tread....One of the guys I buy most of my Willys Jeep stuff from has these

http://walcks4wd.com/6-50-x-16-super-traxion-tires.html

they are tall and skinny but more of an off road look tho. I just thought I would throw this out...he will pay the postage too.

MikeC

 

[shakey56]

It's me again.....

Hey Charlie,
If you go to the Tire Rack website and look in "Shop by Size", you wil find 5 pages in the size I mentioned. Scroll thru them and you will find a bunch that are white letter tires. White letter tires have white sidewalls underneath the black. You can have the black shaved off, exposing the full "whitewalls" .....AND they have some for $143.00 each. Brand names...Michelin, Bridgestone, Yokohama...

....TaDa. Howzat? lol

Lynn

 

[patina]

what about looking in to industrial tires? There cheaper mine measure 31 inchs and came off a compressor. Oh did i mention they are 11 ply lol