How much does the wheel size affect the performance in the Atom?

[Mota Leira]

15 front and 17 rear

[Heywood-Yablowme]

15 front 15 rear




17 frt 17 rear

[Lane]

15 front, 15 rear

[Heywood-Yablowme]

Lane,your car sure looks low.. Is that because it is on grass..kind of an..optical illusion

[silver]

15 front 17 rear is the only one that looks odd

[Heywood-Yablowme]

^It does..I want to flip them end to end. They would then look like fat and skinnys..

[Mota Leira]

One of the few problems with the Atom (other than having enough wildlife in your hair to film an episode of Badger Watch) seems that it can spin out if you give it too much power. So wouldn't it make sense to put those 9" wide 17's at the rear and the narrower 15's in the front? Or is there a reason why that's not a good idea? Slightly worse acceleration with bigger wheels... Not as easy to power slide / drift...

[John Scherrer]

Que?

[Heywood-Yablowme]

Of course it makes sense to run wider tires in back..however,from a visual look from the side..the 17's up front give the illusion of skinny tires vs. fat side walls out back. I have a drag car I run 17" tires on up front and 15" in the rear,(same style wheel) the main reason being they don't make a good drag tire for 17" wheels (drag radials don't count) and one of the side effects was this skinny/fat relationship as seen from the profile of the car.More than a few people have commented on it at the track. 
It really means nothing,and I would never do it on my Atom. I am more than happy with my 15" tires front and rear. 9.5" wide up front..13.5" wide out back..