tire pressures

[Larry C Leung]

Thanks for the input. As I was on street tires, and the course was
inordinately tight (all of Westchester Sports Car Club courses are, I
should've remembered that), the car really didn't want to turn in
(doesn't help that the Q's brakes seem so much less linear and responsive
than my GTi's, not less powerful, just much harder to modulate and feel),
and generally to avoid scrubbing and to be neat and tidy (which as I
recall was the fast way around), I found that the Q was more of a wait,
wait, wait, WAIT, now put on the power, brake, wait, wait, wait, put on
the power proposition. Times were reasonably competitive, but the car was
kinda a bore. The course was pretty much gymkanah sized (okay bigger, but
certainly not SCCA minimum gate sizes nor spacing), so the type 44 was
certainly not the ideal ride. I miss my GTi (now looking for a roof
panel).

Thanks to ALL whom offered suggested tire pressures (ended up running 55
front, 45 rear, tires wore evenly without chunking, Kumho 712,
205/55-16), but I think the only way that a car this big could be truely
fun is on a Divisional or National sized course or on an open road
course. 

LL - NY


On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:00:41 -0400 lee at wheelman.com (Lee M. Levitt)
writes:
>Larry C Leung <l.leung at juno.com> writes:
>>
>> Anyone Auto-X a lowered type-44 with 205/55-16's?.
>>
>> What kind of tire pressures did you (successfully) use?
>>
>> Generally, if you didn't have a lowered car, what pressures did you 
>use?
>> Car is on street rubber (i.e. not "R" rubber), and without any 
>additional
>> information, I'm going to have to guess around 50 PSI front, 45 PSI 
>rear,
>> at least to start with.
>>
>
>Prolly too late for today...but I've run 44/40 (front/rear) on my S6 
>avant,
>with 225/50 16s and 235/45 17s.
>
>Seemed to be about right for the 16s - fronts got nice and warm, rears 
>were
>less so after a run.
>
>...and not quite right for the 17s - the rears were still cold after a 
>run.
>
>These pressures were on the recommendation of Ned R., who knows a 
>thing or
>two about quattro handling :)
>
>Lee
>'95.5 S6 avant (MA plate URS6)
>'96 A6 quattro avant
>