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ScoopMan

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  • Birthday October 28

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    the warm soft hills
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    beckon me
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    structural engineer

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    AARP fuhrer

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  1. Yes my Jar Headed friend. I live still.
  2. are you alive, old man scoop?
  3. I don't need any V not yet anyway
  4. I was expecting that comment, but from YOU?
  5. First time I read it I thought it read the woman brought in a very limp dick
  6. Hey Jeff,

    I am very sorry to say that Richie was killed in a motorcycle accident just over a year ago.

    http://newcity.patch.com/articles/congers-man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash

    The thread is in Tikki. I can see if I can get you back in there to read about it.

    Dave

  7. whats this rip coxx stuff?? somethin happen i should know about? or he just get rid of his car?
  8. Those were so good I almost Shiite my pants
  9. Of course tire manufacturers will have generous safety factors, it is not in their interest to sell tires that might fail at high speeds and kill people. But when you use a product like that in a way that was not intended by the manufacturer, there is a real chance that you are compromising the SF, and I doubt you know by how much. I sure don't, and when I have any doubt I just won't risk it. Stretching the tire will induce full time bending stresses in the sidewall, not transitional ones as when you are cornering with a correctly mounted tire. This may or may not be an issue, depending on the materials and how well they remain bonded to each other. On top of that you have fatigue, the stress cycles every rotation. At 75 mph a 2' diameter tire spins at about 1050 rpm. That's a lot of load cycles, over 25 million in 30k miles. And how well does the bead stay seated when it is getting twisted by putting the tire into that geometry? Why take the risk if you don't know?
  10. So you really think it is a fine idea to ignore rim width ranges specified by the tire manufacturers for a given tire size? I am a structural engineer, and I can guaranty you that the stresses in your tires will most definitely be affected by changing their geometry that much. Would these stresses be deleterious? I am not a tire designer so I could not say, but as an engineer I would NEVER put a stressed element out of the manufacturer's spec unless I could ABSOLUTELY convince myself beyond any doubt that it was safe to do so.
  11. Agreed. I just don't see how stretching tires does anything positive, it can only put additional stresses in the tire that it may not have been designed to take. OP can put 275's or 285's on those rims, but only with some pretty serious fender flares. Either 9.5 is too wide for the car or the offset is wrong, I don't think the rim should project past the sheet metal.
  12. You mean i can't keep the engine cover?! I sent you a pm!
  13. Hey George,

    Wassup bro?

    Just wondering if you think there might be any chance of getting my engine cover back before all the polar ice caps melt and Connecticut ends up on the ocean floor.

    Just wondering...

    Dave

  14. Yesterday at about 7:45 pm in Washington CT I am pretty sure I spotted CTATV Then later on in New Preston someone cruised by in a sweet sounding silver (I think) wagon
  15. Pretty sure I spotted CTATV in Washington CT yesterday at about 7:45 pm. Then a silver LGT wagon in New Preston later on, modded for sure, sounded goooood.....
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