Tires

[Larry C. Leung]

Fabulous tires, but if you want performance and are willing to compromise
on
things such as noise and ride quality, Autoweek had a test of ultra high
perf tires
in which a Falken (don't recall the model, check the website) street tire
(not a
DOT "R" tire) was champ. It was incredibly noisy and stiff riding, but it
was
marginally tops in terms of track and auto-X performance dry, and overall
tops in the wet. It was also relatively cheap. Close, but not quite was
the Kumho
Ecsta MX and Sumitomo HTR-Z2, also relatively inexpensive. Overall tops
of ALL
street tires was the Michelin Pilot Sport (NOT AS), but it's roughly
double the cost
of any of the other tires.

LL - NY

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Todd Phenneger
<tquattroguy at yahoo.com> writes:
> I'd look Seriously at one of 2 tires if you want serious
> performance.
> Michlin Pilot Sport AS
> Bridgestone Potenza SO-3
>
> Both great in wet and dry.  But both expensive.
> l8r
>   Todd
>
> --- DieMarthaDie at aol.com wrote:
> > how do they handle in WET weather?  I keep finding nice dry
> > tires but, not living in AZ, I have to deal with wet roads
> > pretty often!
> >
> > John
> > 90 V8Q
> >
> > > Personnally, I'd take a GOOD look at the
> > > Kumho 712's, if you also run snows in the
> > > winter (if that applies). A whole lot of
> > > performance for the money, Grassroots Motorsports
> > > actually found that they compare VERY well
> > > (mid pack of some rather nice tires) to other
> > > high performance rubber (Sumitomo HTR-Z, Pirelli
> > > P7000, some Michelin Pilot, though don't recall
> > > the model, Falken Ziev something or other), and their
> > > price point is well below all of them.
> > >
> > > I would, however, caution of using them as a year
> > > round tire, their performance falls off notably
> > > once the temps drop to around 35 degrees F or so,
> > > snow or no snow.
> > >
> > > LL - NY
>
>
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