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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 06:05 AM
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In the fall when I get new tires, I would like to jump up a little to a 265/75 tire. My question is just how much will it effect my speedo? It can't be much going up just one size but I'm still curious. It's about an inch difference in height all together. 30.5" to 31.5" give or take a little since it's not a perfect conversion.
 
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 08:50 AM
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You have a superchips don't you? It doesn't matter then since you can change it haha if you dont try one of the tire calculators out there to see the difference i'm guessing at least 2-3 mph
 
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 08:54 AM
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Here's a link I found searching the forum:

http://www.4lo.com/calc/gearspeedo.htm
 
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 11:00 AM
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http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html best tire size thing i have used.

if your going from 265/70 to 265/75 spedo will be off 3.4% 60mph on the dash will be 62 actual
 
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 02:43 PM
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i went from a 265/75 R16 to a 235/85 R16 and I have no difference in size, just a little skinnier.
 
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 08:15 PM
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Mine was off about 5 mph with 31x10.50's but fixed it with my superchips
 
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Old Jul 17, 2011 | 06:54 PM
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You have a superchips don't you? It doesn't matter then since you can change it haha if you dont try one of the tire calculators out there to see the difference i'm guessing at least 2-3 mph
Yeah I don't have it anymore. I sold it. It didn't really do a lot for me being a manual and didn't think it was worth it. I sold it for $10 more than I paid for it too.
 
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Old Jul 18, 2011 | 12:11 PM
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Ahh...gotchya - yeah I know what you mean about the not feeling to much from being standard its the same way in mine, I basically have it for the tire size difference and as a code reader.
 
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Old Jul 18, 2011 | 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by TheePlaymaker
Ahh...gotchya - yeah I know what you mean about the not feeling to much from being standard its the same way in mine, I basically have it for the tire size difference and as a code reader.
Yeah if I didn't need the money I would have kept it just for those two things as well but at the time I needed the money so I sold it.
 
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