Thread: Tire sizes
View Single Post
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 03-11-2009, 09:15 PM
Pete Munroe Pete Munroe is offline
CC Member
Visit my Photo Gallery

 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PVE, CA
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 289 FIA #2027, 65' 289" PS wheels
Posts: 345
Not Ranked     
Default 16 inch tires

Oma,

Mickey Thompson markets several street oriented radials in 16" sizes.

Folks assume a M/T tire is only a drag tire but i am not sure that is really the case. BFG drag radial's work VERY well on a friends street driven 911 Turbo Porsche, and he has been actively vintage road racing for 30 years+.

http://www.mickeythompsontires.com/strip.php?item=ETStreet[/url]

http://www.mickeythompsontires.com/s...StreetRadialII

Poke around as M/T has more than a few street/race tires.

Easy to say you should get another set of wheels, but 16" is still available in a performance radial...for another year or two...?

I would steer clear of "bias type" tires for the street...they follow every groove in the road...my old Hoosiers T/D's, a bias type, were not fun on the street as they follow every crack in the road.

Are the AVONS and the G/Y bilboards radial or bias? general question.

If most driving is on the street things to consider other than what the letters on the tires side wall say...
__________________
ERA 289 #2027
Reply With Quote