Track tyres

[Leeroy]

Need your help on tyres & wheels of choice for the track.

With Nationals coming up I want to get some tyres for the track as the Toyo TS-1 I have for the road were not all that good after a number of laps. I have 235x45x17" (7.5"rims) with 275x40x17" (9.5"rims) on rear.

PhilN told me of the Toyo R888 but avail. in my size for rear. I looked at dunlop website with no track tyre info & same for yokohama.

If anyone has some good thoughts here I would apreciate it and also do you guys run race tyres/rims or just swap over. Thought maybe it would be worth getting steel rims made or even look for alloy race rims?

Thanks Leeroy.

[jess]

gday leeroy
just been through doing the tire thing and man they are not cheap so this is what i found yokahama make an "R" spec tire which is good for track work but lasts @ 10K cost @ $550
bridgetone do a similar thing for around the same price
then there are michelin best of the bunch at top dollar of @ 750 followed by continentals and pirelli
now this is the weird one hankook spoke to a few guys who worked over in europe and have done tire testing over there and spoke very highly of them but get this they are the cheapest 350 so i could not pass it up do not have car on the road as yet if all goes well hopefully in a few weeks meeting with engineer in 1.5 weeks almost forgot toyo A888 are supposibly preety good to hope this helps
cheers
jess

[richardferguson]

Leeroy,
have a look on Tirerack.com. Heaps of tyres and they will ship.
Richard

[stiffy]

Hi Leeroy,

I have a set of twice used Yoho 235 x 17 x 40 and 275 x 17 x 35
that are for sale.They are the AO32R spec that all the good guy's use

Let me know if you are interested.


STIFFY

[Leeroy]

Stiffmyster

I am interested in your tyres. I will call you and maybe you can bring them along to the meeting next week.

Leeroy

[asbsa]

I mainly use my Cobra for sprinting about 5 laps per sesson max, and have found the Toyo's excellent as they heat up fast, because I run 16 inch rims I couldn't get the same compound front to back so I have RA1's on the back & 888's on the front. The 888's improved my turn in & mid corner grip a lot but they are soft & wear rate is quite high, the RA1's worked out well on the back but I think they are about to be discontinued. Al.

[stiffy]

Hi Leeroy,


I am out of the country and i didnt take the phone,
but i should be ay at the next meeting on Thursday, i can talk to you then.


STIFFY

[Leeroy]

Thanks Stiffy,
see you Thursday night
Leeroy