Thread: need some big meaty street tires

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hey guys, i got a set of centerline fluted star rims, 15X8 and they look sweet on the truck, but i need a set of tires for them i'd like to get a set of bfgoodrich radial t/a's to keep the old school look, but whats the tallest widest, most balloon like lookin meaty tire i can stuff in there as far as size goes?

10's should work, considering that if a rim states that it is 8 inches wide this is from the inside of the bead to the inside, so in effect the ACTUAL rim width is 9 inches. Since rubber is well...rubber it stretches to fit on the rim and you should be fine with 10. I would have gone and said that you might work with 11s but thats pretty wide in itself, and streets doesnt think she will fit. Best bet, ask the tire shop what you can do with it. As for tall, I am aware of up to 70 percent height. There might be taller such as special made mud tires or something but I just don't know. SO if 70 percent is a good baseline you are lookin at a tire that is 7 inches tall at the sidewall with a 10 inch wide tire, or 14 inches of rubber, with your rim it would be a 29 inch tall tire. If its a mud tire you want, the Mud terrains are meaty lookin but dont like ice, and since I dont know where germantown is I'll just note that. They do work great for...well mud and stuff but the All terrains look fairly aggressive as well but for sheer meaty look the m/ts are what you want. I think Bf Goodrich states their tire sizes in inches and possibly a 10.5 inch wide tire might fit. Since the rim is smaller I dont see why this wouldnt work as opposed to a bigger rim and a smaller tire. This would make the tire stretch out to the bead and not the other way around. A good tire man should know. UHH, hope I helped.

BF Goodrich 285/70R-15 TA Radial.

Black on both sides - white letters are available.

8" tread width, 30" tall.

On a 10 x 15" wheel with 2 7/8" backspace.

BFG may still make their 31.50-15 LT (Light Truck tire), but the passenger car tire shown in the pic is what you want - unless you're running a truck.
The 31.50 is just about the same size as the 285 with measurements differing only by a small fraction.

The passenger tire is of lighter construction than the LT tire.
3 ply tread and 1 ply sidewall for the passenger tire.
7 ply tread and 3 ply sidewall for the truck tire.

I ran the LT tire on my 32 for a while, rode a little harsh, but not too bad - 12-15# pressure was right for it considering the weight of the car.

The passenger tire runs at 20# and rides very nice.

Humm sounds about as bad as the too narrow a tire story. I think that a 9 inch wide tire would fit the bill about right, but hey I guess ya could try the 10. I noticed you have an 88 pickup thus being why I would say to use Lt tires. I don't see why the sizes of a radial t/a for that old school look would be any different than the sizes for the all terrains or mud terrains either. You should be able to accomodate a big tire in your fenderwells so go as big as you can I guess. Also, some tires are just constructed differently and would 'look' more balloonish than others. A truck tire may look more balloonish, a taller tire may look that way too. Sports tires are wider at the tread and less at the sidewall giving a larger contact patch, whilst a truck tire is quite wide at the sidewall and less so at the tread. And since tires are measured at the widest point you might be better off with a truck tire for that look that you so desire. Anyhow, using some info here, go out and get the biggest, meanest, tallest monster tires you can and stick em on those rims.

I've got BF Goodrich 265/70R15's on my truck which has 15x7.5" rims, maybe. Anyways, that's about as big of a near stock diametered tire I could fit on there. I like em. That comes out to be about 10.25" of tire