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Track tyres
Need your help on tyres & wheels of choice for the track.:3DSMILE:
With Nationals coming up I want to get some tyres for the track as the Toyo TS-1 I have for the road were not all that good after a number of laps. I have 235x45x17" (7.5"rims) with 275x40x17" (9.5"rims) on rear. PhilN told me of the Toyo R888 but avail. in my size for rear. I looked at dunlop website with no track tyre info & same for yokohama. If anyone has some good thoughts here I would apreciate it and also do you guys run race tyres/rims or just swap over. Thought maybe it would be worth getting steel rims made or even look for alloy race rims? Thanks Leeroy. |
gday leeroy
just been through doing the tire thing and man they are not cheap so this is what i found yokahama make an "R" spec tire which is good for track work but lasts @ 10K cost @ $550 bridgetone do a similar thing for around the same price then there are michelin best of the bunch at top dollar of @ 750 followed by continentals and pirelli now this is the weird one hankook spoke to a few guys who worked over in europe and have done tire testing over there and spoke very highly of them but get this they are the cheapest 350 so i could not pass it up do not have car on the road as yet if all goes well hopefully in a few weeks meeting with engineer in 1.5 weeks almost forgot toyo A888 are supposibly preety good to hope this helps cheers jess |
Leeroy,
have a look on Tirerack.com. Heaps of tyres and they will ship. Richard |
stiffy has grip
Hi Leeroy,
I have a set of twice used Yoho 235 x 17 x 40 and 275 x 17 x 35 that are for sale.They are the AO32R spec that all the good guy's use :LOL: Let me know if you are interested. STIFFY |
Stiffmyster
I am interested in your tyres. I will call you and maybe you can bring them along to the meeting next week. Leeroy |
I mainly use my Cobra for sprinting about 5 laps per sesson max, and have found the Toyo's excellent as they heat up fast, because I run 16 inch rims I couldn't get the same compound front to back so I have RA1's on the back & 888's on the front. The 888's improved my turn in & mid corner grip a lot but they are soft & wear rate is quite high, the RA1's worked out well on the back but I think they are about to be discontinued. Al.
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uncontactable for a while
Hi Leeroy,
I am out of the country and i didnt take the phone, but i should be ay at the next meeting on Thursday, i can talk to you then. STIFFY |
Thanks Stiffy,
see you Thursday night Leeroy |
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