×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

wheel spec

wheel spec

wheel spec

(OP)
Lets say I was designing a 20" wheel for a car (like a Honda Civic, Acura, etc.).  How would I decide the width of the wheel assuming low-profile tires?  I am just wondering for a group project if there is a standard that must be followed.  

RE: wheel spec

The easy answer is that you look at the available tires for that tire size, and then find out the recommended rim widths for those tires.

Alternatively you can get hold of the Tire and Rim Association yearbook, which costs about 35 bucks, contact details given in an earlier thread, which has a chart showing the recommended and permitted rim widths for a given tire width and aspect ratio. However, the latest I have is 1995 and it only goes up to 18 inch. There are various other figures given in that book which are required for packaging a wheel and tire (grown profiles and such like) which should also be useful to you.




Cheers

Greg Locock

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources