7's or 6's - You choose

[Dingy]

Surely it depends on yourself LOL...

7's look better, but need bigger rubber and might catch LOL....

[Kel]

I know what your saying, but I can run the same tyres on 6's without the walls being streched on the 7's.

but I am swaying to stay with the 7's

[mk2phil]

I'm usually an advocate for 7's, but in this instance the 6's win all day long in my opinion. Look at the pictures - the 6's look perfect. If you do decide to keep the 7's they HAVE to be black/polished - end of story!!

I'm perhaps swaying away from 7's now becuase I think RS's only look good when they're pretty low, and 7's will catch the front wings I've been told when you go reasonably low =(

All IMHO of course

[Dingy]

makes me laugh people who do that...

fit the right size tyre LOL...

[Kel]

Steve, can you give me techie reason why this is a bad thing to do to see if they match up with my thoughts.

[Dingy]

Lateral Grip

[Dingy]

Measure inner bead of rim to inner bead, this gives you the ideal size...

an 8" MO has just over 8" bead to to bead....would be a 215mm tyre...

The proxies sit over the bead making the 225 the perfect tyre size, would be a 215 on slicks

[arron]

I still want to buy the black wheel nuts from you !!!!

[Kel]

Measure inner bead of rim to inner bead, this gives you the ideal size...

an 8" MO has just over 8" bead to to bead....would be a 215mm tyre...

The proxies sit over the bead making the 225 the perfect tyre size, would be a 215 on slicks

Would fitting the smaller tyre (195/55) on a 7 inch rim, cause the wall of the tyre give more than on a 6 inch rim, causing the rim to move Lateral within the tyre, basiclly cause a sence of dull turn in (if you get my meaning, being one for the track I sure you have come across that term).

[Dingy]

Not sure what dull turn in means - no feeling ?

Whats the inner bead to inner bead on an rs rim....6 and 7....

205's on a 6" is way to big LOL, would think that 195 is too big to be honest....

I had 195's on my 7" mo's and they were the perfect size, handled very well....

[Kel]

On the car at the mo I have 195/55's on my 7's

Ford offered 195's for the 6's as per the Rallye sport parts book.

what I mean my dull turn in is, the reaction of turning the steering to the car changing direction.

[Dingy]

Guess the rallysport book is for a road car tho isnt it and is it not a bit old hat ?

mine is instant from turning the wheel....

If the tyre is too big the wheel moves in the tyre then the tyre moves....

Needs to move with the rim..

[Kel]

These are the pictures that started the whole issue in my mind, check out the front tyre, I think the speed as around 50-55.

When turning in the car just feels so disconnected from the input I put in, when in the corner all is fine, its just the first input.

[Kel]

end of the day I have a 3rd option, the problem is me expecting to much, last time I drove a mk2 with any sort of pace was 1990 before I drove FEV last October.

and I could just be throwing my 7's out for my pram for no reason.

[Banishit]

7's on 195's should fine, I have no problems