

| Subject: | Re: Why go to big tires? |
| From: | Sudhir Desai |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:39:39 -0400 |
Sorry about the simplicity, I figured I would gloss it over HARDCORE. the 0 represents the hub, the ) the brake rotor/drum, the | the outside of the tire. STOCK distance of force from hub: 0--5"----//---12.5" direction of force: 0--up-------down illustration: 0--)-----//----| lets say the car is rolling along, and the torque needed to stop the wheels abruptly (ignoring/subtracting any sort of rotational inertia, and friction, etc) is 5000in-lb. that means, we would have to exert a force of 5000in-lb/12.5in = 400lb (at 12.5" out from the hub) to stop the wheels abruptly. now, we go in more to where we can stop the wheels, the brakes. at 5" out from the hub, that 400lb force needed is now (400lb*12.5in) = (xlb*5in), or x = ((400lb*12.5")/5"), so x = (5000in-lb)/5" = 1000lb SO... to stop the wheel abruptly, we need 1000lb of force at 5" out from the hub, and that's the torque our stock brakes can put out. when we increase the tire size to a 28" tire: OVERSIZE distance of force from hub: 0--5"----//---14" direction of force: 0--up-------down illustration: 0--)-----//----| SO NOW WE GO BACKWARDS!!!! lol~ due to our original assumption of 1000in-lb, we have just increased the diameter of our tires to 28". this means that our 1000 lb force (5000in-lb) that was enough to stop the 25" tire will not be enough to stop a 28 inch tire by the following equation. 5000in-lb/12.5in = xin-lb/14in, or xin-lb = (5000in-lb*14in)/12.5in x=(5000*14)/12.5 = 5600in-lb is our new stopping torque needed. our stock brakes can only exert 1000in-lb of torque, so we won't be able to stop the wheel abruptly anymore. hopefully y'all are following me still... we just increased the amount of force needed to stop the wheels, and we see that our stock brakes are not enough to do so. NOW, we need to calculate the size of brakes we need to stop the tire abruptly (ignoring all other factors). we take the known stopping torque, and our original brakes (10" brakes LOL), and see how that compares with our new 5600in-lb x-in/5600in-lb = 5in/5000in-lb x = (5*5600)/5000 = 5.6in so we'd need 11.2" diameter brakes to put out the 5600in-lb torque needed to stop the wheels abruptly. which is another inch diameter of brake needed. I hope my simple explanation (with calculations to show i wasn't just pulling numbers out of the air) was satisfactory. :) Sudhir
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