Rob: Jeff in Tulsa.
Nice post on the tires!
I might add that the Hoosier S2s I had last year were an excellent tire, our
only problem was that we had a tad too wide of a tire for our wheel, but the
more understeer I expected in the car..the more they STUCK.
Does anyone have any Kumho stories?
Our budget this year didnt let is get the new Hoosiers, so we went on some
good words, and bought the Kumho 700s.
Car: 1995 Mitsu 3000GT-VR4, 245/45 17s, about 4150lbs with driver.
going to start with -1.2 camber on drivers side, and -.9 on passenger side,
toe'd out to the limit of OEM spec in front, and a tad toe'd in in the rear
(AWS as well as AWD).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert M. Pickrell Jr. [SMTP:brnrubr@midusa.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 4:52 PM
> To: Net
> Subject: G-Force Tires Report and For Sale
>
> Comparsion of G-Force to Hoosiers. A good friend of mine ordered some
> Hoosiers
> today. He reported to me his testing of G-Forces last year. They found
> that the
> G-Force tires were about 2 seconds slower on a 2 - 2.5 mile track. They
> used a
> world challenge porsche for the testing.
>
> There conclusions the Hoosiers are much faster on a light car with a
> good race suspension. The BFG's were better on the heavier higher
> horsepower cars only because they did not loose as much performance as
> the Hoosier's over the hour
> race.
>
> On the lighter cars the Hoosier did not fall off in performance like on
> the heavier cars, and was faster through out the race.
>
> He said that the BFG seemed to work better on Show room stock cars and
> cars with stock suspension.
>
> So for autocross and stock cars the BFG is a much better comparison to
> the Hoosier. It seems the G-Force is wearing fast for some people, but I
> am sure there are som die hard BFG fans out there that will counter that
> idea. Like Byron or Goeke.
>
> He stated that BFG was concerned and wanted a faster tire but were
> locked in with
> committments not to change the tire in middle of a season.
>
> Main problem is the tire is to heavy and stiff the sidewall, for light
> cars with a good race type suspension.
>
> For Sale two 275/40R17 and two 315/35R17 G-Force with one heat cycle on
> them, just to scrub them in. $535.00 for the set FOB Kansas. Also Two
> 225/45R17 and two 255/40R17 G-Force Sticker Tires. $535.00 FOB Kansas.
>
> Let me know if interested
>
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