How do I go about making the rear tires wider so I can make a drag car?

Hi, How do I make the rear tires wider? I am converting a Gavril Grand Marshal Widebody Race Edition into a drag car for fun. I've got the engine, transmission, and rear differential tuned how I want for drag racing, it's extremely fast and controllable. I would like wider rear tires so I can have more grip at launch and control at high speeds so my car doesn't start to drift around all over the road.

 

Hi u can change it in the fullsize_wheels_R.jbeam under //general settings on the wheels u want. U will figure it out fast.
I modded the moonhawk to drag yesterday

 

You don't have to make the rear tires wider, you can just increase the "frictioncoef" (grip) in the "wheels_R.jbeam". Check out this: Tutorial-Vehicle-performance-and-components-modification-(Simple)
It explains how you do it.

 

I agree but it just adds to the drag feel. You need a big fat tire to make it look draggy IMO.

 

I tried that... um

help



my settings are

//general settings
{"radius":0.445},
{"hubRadius":0.54},
{"wheelOffset":-0.04},
{"hubWidth":0.375},
{"tireWidth":0.465},
{"numRays":12},

 

i think u have to rezise ur wheel mesh in edit mode to fit the jbeam

Edit

just saw ur hub is bigger than the tire. Change the hubRadius to less than the radius and it will fix it

 

I did that and it did, the tire appears now, but it and the rim are still the same size despite the larger numbers, it just shows the rear tires floating above the ground, though it's making contact with the ground as if there is a larger tire there

 

i sent u a pm

 

can anybody else help me with this?

Hopefully later on down the road tuning a car will be more user friendly

 

I'm trying to make bigger tires either (i can make only an invisible tire changing the radius...)
Someone can help us?
Thx



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ps. Sorry for my english

 

Hey, I inreased the tire general settings, the tire looks the same size, however now my tire sits above the ground, kind of floating. How do I fix this?

 

You're aiming for something better than my creation!

 

hmmm

Is there any way to use tires from another model? Like for example put tires from a D series truck on a covet?