RE71, RE730, YokoAVSi for '88 80Q?

[Larry C Leung]

Tess,

I've had RE-71's on my GTi both in R compound and street compound. As an
autocross tire (R) the only positive thing that I could say about them is
that they braked well in the dry, fantastically in the wet. The street
tires are very smooth and nice communicative performers, but wear quite
fast (but since I only put about 2K miles on them each year, who cares?).
I've been in cars that have run AVS Intermediates, and they really seem
to stick very well for a street tire. But again, they were on small light
cars (i.e. a CRX Si) so I don't know how they'd translate to your Q. If
you are happy with the RE-71s, my best guess is to go with them, as they
are also pretty cheap now. One other (cheap) possibility is the Kumho
712's availible from Tire Rack. Great performers, quiet, smooth, good in
the wet, and really decent wear. I've had them on my 200Q (now THERE's a
TANK), autocrossed with them a couple of times, and like them very much.
Of course the 200Q wasn't much of an autocrosser, but the tires accounted
themselves quite well. 

HTH,

LL - NY

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:00:54 -0700 "Tessie McMillan" <tessmc at drizzle.com>
writes:
>My apologies if this topic has been covered! I haven't been able to 
>pay too
>much attention to the digest lately.
>
>Thursday night as I went around boosting the psi on my Bridgestone 
>RE71's in
>preparation for Friday's first-of-the-season lapping day, I discovered 
>a
>large nail in the angle of the sidewall of my right rear tire. That 
>nail
>wasn't there the day before, and the pressure was down quite a bit. 
>Sigh. At
>9:00 p.m., I had few options.(I ended up just working the event and a 
>friend
>let me drive his 944 S2 during open session at the end of the day -- 
>so the
>day wasn't a total bust!)
>
>Since all four of my tires are getting down there anyway, I think I'd 
>prefer
>to replace all of them, and not just the rear two to get rid of the 
>nail. So
>I could switch to a different tire at this time.
>
>My Alfa 164-driving friends are pressuring me to put Yokohama AVS
>intermediates on my Quattro with the idea that this is a good 
>track/street
>tire. I recently bought the Yokos for my Alfa Spider and am unhappy 
>with
>them, but I think this is because I selected a 205 instead of a 195 -- 
>and
>the tire is just too wide for my lightweight little manual-steering 
>baby.
>But I've really been happy with my RE71s (drove them for a few years 
>on an
>'87 911 Carrera as well, but only at autocross; we used R1s at the 
>track)
>although I still don't know how they'd behave on Quattro on the track. 
>I've
>also seen comments on the RE 730 on Tire Rack's web site, and although 
>the
>comments look pretty positive, I don't see any evidence of track 
>driving
>with these tires.
>
>Any BTDTs/opinions of these tires? I'm running 15" BBS wheels, and 
>this car
>is my standard grocery-gitter as well... although... I do alternate 
>between
>Spider and Q-car... &:-)
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>Tess
>in Seattle, WA U.S.A.
>