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Street AND AX/Track Tire, Best of both worlds possible? |
Alphaogre |
Jun 20 2016, 12:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 460 Joined: 28-May 12 From: San Diego Member No.: 14,487 Region Association: Southern California |
I am trying to narrow down a tire option moving forward. I have standard tires that are fine for the road, but only give me about 1 maybe 2 laps before they overheat. I have heard some good things about the below tire options but I am having trouble narrowing it down.
The use will be as follows. I drive the car on the road, 1 maybe 2 days a week. I don't drive it in the rain, so that is not an issue. It does not do long freeway drives, mostly spirited drives to work or around town on the weekend. It is mostly becoming an AX car, and I am really wanting to step up the tire compound for that reason. I would also like the tire to be better rated for some DE/TT events in the fall. I have 15"x5.5 rims on a narrow body that currently have a 195x65x15 on them. I am thinking 205x50x15 (which gives me more options), or 195x50x15 which leaves me with the Toyo Proxies. the longevity to stickiness ratio is somewhat of a factory in budgeting...I can't be buying 3 or 4 sets a year. The car is mostly stock set up with a 1911cc short stroke, weber 44s and cam. Front adjustable sway bar and adjustable C/O Bilstein HD's in the rear. I think I might add a roll hope with lateral struts during the summer, not sure if that would need to be factored in. Any feedback would be great. I have done some research but haven't found info with a car/set up relevant to mine. A.K.A a slower 914-4 narrow body. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
westtexass2k |
Jun 22 2016, 11:55 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 40 Joined: 31-December 11 From: San Angelo Tx Member No.: 13,954 Region Association: None |
I have used a good number of tires over the years I have competed in the One lap of America 3 times and done a lot of DE weekends and the last few years racing 24 hour Lemons events. I have done thousands of Laps over last 12 years. Tokyo RA1 and R888 are both very good basically the same compound just different tread patterns and rubber block layout. Spirited dry road driving, DE/ax in fairly light car you will get reasonable life out of them and maximum traction with good feedback. It would be my choice if you can find them in the size you want.
All my other cars have been Lotus 7 types that weight 1300 lbs and power levels of 240-500 hp. With these cars a set of R888 last me the entire season usually 7 DE weekends and few AutoX and aprox 4K miles a year of highway driving. One Lap of America we were limited to 200 wear tires. I used Yokahoma AD07 good in the dry bad in the wet and very noisy. Michelin Pilot Sport 2 Very good tire wet or dry and good feedback and breakaway warning and long life,but expensive and took time to get heat in them so not good for AutoX We took 3rd overall with that tire and the top 10 cars were all on PS2 tires. Lemons racing we are limited to the 200 wear as well. We are running a BMW 535i about 2900 lbs now. We have been using the BFG Rival. They have been really good for us. Good grip takes a lot of really hard driving on a hot track to overheat. Wear has been good. We usually get a whole weekend out of a set (450-500 laps) if we don't lock a wheel up and flat spot one. Hadn't used them in the wet. |
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