[s-cars] CUMho's

[Mark Strangways]

I can recommend far finer than Cohiba's at much less of an A$$ raping price.
And Toronto has all of Montreal's Dancers anyways, but I would not know 
anything about that.

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taka Mizutani" <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
To: <pkrasusky at ups.com>
Cc: <S-CAR-List at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] CUMho's


> Paul-
> If you want to blow money, go up to Canada, get a box of Cohibas and light
> 'em up
> while blowing those colorful Canadian Dollars at one of the fine dancing
> establishments
> in Montreal. :-)
>
> Slight correction- OEM fitment for the C4 S cars is 245/40R17, not 45
> series.
>
> Falken RT-615s beat Kumho MXs- Grassroots Motorsports did an excellent 
> tire
> comparison of all the popular street tire contenders and the Kumho MX is 
> not
> comparable
> to the Falken RT-615 or the Hankook Z212.
>
> Are you bluing the whole tire or just the outside shoulder? If just the
> outside shoulder, I'd crank your camber plates to get more negative 
> camber-
> maybe 2 degrees or so? I never had any heat issues running 255s on my 200,
> and that's including track days. A friend of mine killed a set of 
> 225/45R17
> SP9000s in one autox. :-) Not surprising considering that I had serious
> understeer and grip issues running 225s. I went to 255s and the car was 
> much
> better, much more grip, much less understeer (probably only due to more
> grip).
>
> RT-615s don't really look like street tires- if you like the big shoulder
> blocks of the MX, the 615 will look like a slick with much less void area.
>
> My 615s are on their way.... I'm hoping for permanently warmer weather 
> soon-
> this drop to 40 degrees is killing me.
>
> Taka
>
> On 3/14/06, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Taka hebe'd:
>>
>> <<<I'll be running Falken RT-615 this summer because I'm cheap and poor.
>> Next best thing to the Advan and Bridgestones>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Heh heh heh.  I prefer to call it "single income".
>>
>> Tho, that aside, seriously, I do find it *very hard* to justify spending
>> $400 more for a set of rubber I'm just going to mutilate regardless of 
>> which
>> I get.  Be better of laying 400 $1 bills on my front seat and commute 
>> around
>> fastlike with my windows open.  Or use a lighter and ignite them, maybe
>> lighting a fine Macanudo with each like the Monopoly Man?  No thanks - I 
>> can
>> put the $ saved into more attempts in chasing down front end clunks!  30k 
>> on
>> tires.  HA!  Yer funny 8-).  Remember my tires are near blue and well 
>> beyond
>> wear bars when them come off.
>>
>> Craig, sorry to hear about your '89 951S - sweet car.  Sigh.  I think 
>> that
>> made me pucker more than the Michelin prices 8-(.  As Taka outlined for 
>> you
>> the OE RoW optional UrS size is 245/45/17 but the C5 17x8's come with 
>> 255/40
>> and fit fine.  I and numerous others here have BTDT on the 255's with no
>> issue.
>>
>> My et35 Avus give me a full-lock inner fender liner rub but not enough to
>> care.  And I think the rears have just *barely* scraped the fender edge 
>> 3-4x
>> when fully laden / fully compressed over a swell.  BFD to both.  The 
>> bigger
>> footprint and amount that they fill up the fender well (substantially 
>> IMO)
>> are well worthwhile.  To me at least, and this is my well used well 
>> loaded
>> daily driver.
>>
>> My buddy Brian's car with identical suspension / wheels but 245 S03's 
>> (yes
>> the one FS on AF classifieds) alwaysalwaysalways looks goofy when parked
>> next to mine, bugs the crap out of him.  And me!  255s look muchmuch the
>> part for the C4's IMO.  But again, bigger footprint is good.  Plus it's 
>> fun
>> sandblasting my arm while resting on the open window sill when the wheels
>> are barely turned - no joke, esp. with the sticky MX's.
>>
>> Taka / others...  compare them thar RT612's to the MX's?  That one piqued
>> my interest.  The MX's do have a really squared shoulder look with them
>> gigantor tread blocks, and do look fab on there.  So far it's a tough one 
>> to
>> beat.  612's do it?
>>
>> Tanks gents!
>>
>> -Paul you should see my Pilot Snowsport H's - d'oh - K.
>>
>>
>>
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