Re: Tars agin

[John Karasaki <johkar@teleport.com>]

At 09:41 AM 3/9/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a set of A008's on my stock 5ktq rims, and find them unacceptable on
>the track or off, even in a 205/50 15.....  They heat up too quickly, and to
>keep them cool you need to run some serious tire pressures, and to say they
>suck in the wet is the biggest understatement regarding tires.....

Scott,

The Porsche guy here swear by the A008's.  I had a five minute soapbox
speach by a few 911 owners about how much of an unfair advantage these tires
were in either format - the street version or the A008 R race version.  The
preached on about haw good they were in the wet too.  This was just a couple
of weekends ago (See my Alfa Romeo at PIR post) on a wet track for half the
day.  I wonder if these tire's performance are car specific?

On a different note, have you any experience with Sumitomo tires?  The Tire
Rack salesman said that Sumitomo is the parent company of Dunlop and that
the tires offered under both names are very similar.  I made a call to
Dunlop and spoke with their sales engineers.  They confirmed that Sumitomo
had a controlling interest in the company, but could not give me a
comparison between the two.

Regards,

John Karasaki

The Karasaki's, proud owners of AUDI automobiles

1981 Coupe
1982 TQC
1984 5000S Wagon
1990 V8