Would fliping the front tires on 2005 raptor help the handling some? Thanks

 

You get I think its 2" of width added. But I heard that steering gets a little bit weird when you do it. Just try it, if you don't like it flip it back. No harm done.


MIke.

 

sweet thanks ill try it

 

To do the front you have to move the valve stem on wheel, other wise it hits brakes. I have my back wheels flipped and it helped but left front alone.

 

Just remember that the valve stem is gonna be hitting the caliper, so you might want to get some hidden stems or plug the stock hole and drill another on the other side. I did this with my stock wheels and any little bump I hit, it would pull the bars HARD.

 

Why would u flip your rears, wouldn't that narrow it up??? That might happen with the valve stem, but try it out see how it works for ya.

MIke.

 

If you flip the stock rear raptor wheels it will make it narrower but I know for sure than on a banshee it will make it wider...at least it did on my buds 04 banshee.

 

Not sure why, but flipping the front wheels on the Raptor causes bad steering bump. Trying to go down a straight dirt road at high speed is scarry.

 

Just adding 30 mm spacers for $68 at front is a easy and work great. IMHO
rnuts

Spacers

 

What i did, was just flip the front rims, took off the vavlestem cap, and put 2 washers between the hub and the rim, which spaced it just far enough for the stem to clear the brake set-up. It added a little over 2 inches a side, made it real nice and wider in the front. I know what most people do is take off the tires, flip the vavlestem inside out, and drill another hole on the side thats now going to be facing outward. But the washer idea worked well. Do that and get 60$ rear spacers, and you will have a real nice handling lower wider raptor.

With the rear rims, flipping them on a raptor is for a loss of width in the rear, but warrior rear rims will add a gain of width when flipped.

--Rider1169