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Buy sandals, apparently your foot is too heavy.

glad you linked the article i quoted

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This post has been edited by playr158: Oct 24, 2008 - 8:28 AM

Wheel size alone can not be used as an indicator of weight. It all depends on the particular design, and there are better and worse ones out there. I would bet you can find 18" wheels with low profile tires that will weigh considerably less than the same overall height/width combo in a 15 or 16" wheel.

I am pretty sure you would gain fuel mileage with taller tires in a GT, (maybe not an ST) there is plenty of power available at highway speeds, I keep thinking I need another gear. But keep in mind- if you do change, it will throw your speedometer off so you may not be able to accurately calculate the actual gains.

My own mileage has dropped from a constant 29.9 mpg average to 27.5 ever since Missouri forced ethanol on us. This is what happens when you get government involved in technical/economic stuff. If I am adding 10% ethanol to the fuel and my mileage drops by 10%, I am burning the EXACT SAME amount of gasoline + the ethanol, so what have we gained in carbon emissions or oil usage reductions except to now drive up the price of food also?

But it makes us tree hugging left wing liberals out here in Oregon so happy that you're spewing corn into the environment.


CORN not CARBON

Well said 97GTinKC, those are my feelings on the subject as well. Now, can anyone tell me how large of a wheel/tire diameter I can safely get into the wheel well of my Celica without any rubbing? It has not been lowered. I assume it would dependent on tire width. I will probably go with a 205 or 215 on a 16" rim. Any wider, and like people said earlier, it will negate any fuel savings.

See my other thread. Don't all auto ST's get similar mileage?

I'm going with 215/50-16 next time in place of the 205/50-16 on there now. Probably the BF Goodrich Traction TA again.

touche what octane do you guys use?

this is very true. I can produce 18s that weight a LOT less than a set of 15s.....now tell me who on this site will put enough $ into their wheels that they'll buy $2000+ rims (alone) for some quality LTW wheels over your $1000 18" set of HP racing/AXIS ect.

yes i'm being bad and assuming the OP like 90% of this car culture will buy generic wheels.

Nope, apparently not because I average 30 mpg and I know there's not THAT much of a difference between auto/manual trans.

Well, that's mad annoying...I'll just have to look into commonly fuel-sapping problems, since there's obviously something wrong.

215 is totally fine, and probably a better choice than 205. You can go up to 225 I believe w/out any concern of rubbing, and I don't believe either one will affect mileage. I'm running 215/40R17 on a manual ST and get 30 mpg on average, that's with stop and go and highway combined.