Need some advice

[88cutlass]

Do 22 in rims on a gbody affect the car in any way? Like with the brakes, handling, turning speed and other things

 

[jeremyandthemonte]

its like running with a backpack full of rocks down a hill hard to stop and hard to start.

 

[autonaut]

It will worsen every single thing on the car, except looks(if you're into big wheels).

Personally i dont like the look. The way i see it, the gbody car guys are split in two.

There's one part that spends the money on bling bling and big wheels, not caring what it will actually do to the cars handling. They only care about how it will look.

And then there's those guys that try and improve the handling of the vehicle as a whole, or for single purposes like dragracing, autocrossing or a mix of both.

So which one are you?
An improver?
Or an imposter?

 

[TheHomie]

It will depend allot on how big the rims and tires you have now are. And how wide. By going to a 22 from experience in the past I learned it feels different when turning. The tires I had were 305 wide. It got really good traction but I couldn't burn out as easy or often as I wanted to. By feeling different I mean it literally feels like it was skating. Almost like it was on railroad tracks.

jeremyandthemonte is right. It seemed like it didn't want to stop moving. I think this was more mental because anytime the outside diameter increases it affects speed. Just for thought if it takes 4 turns of the rotor to stop your vehicle and you have tires that have a circumference of 4 feet it will take 16ft to stop. If the tires increase to 4.5 feet circumference and same amount of turns will equal 18 feet. In both of those the brake contacted the rotor the same amount of time. Giving the illusion of not wanting to stop. Hope that makes sense....