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Re: Best Rain autox/street tire?

To: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>,
Subject: Re: Best Rain autox/street tire?
From: whitney <whitneys@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:53:09 -0700
The best you could do might be a full tread kumho - in a narrower size, say
205/55/14, as any R tire compound will top a street tire in the rain, until
you get to deep standing water, and even then, once you splash through....

Not too many other race tires with real tread left :(  

You could also use some G-force KD street tires, or yok A032, but they may
be a little noisy for street use.


Stan


At 10:59 AM 4/22/99 -0400, Mark J. Andy wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>I'm in need of street tires for the neon and would like to get some summer
>only tires that will be suitable for heavy rain use in autox.  I care
>about stuff in the following order:
>
>1st) Good rain tire for autox
>2nd) At least 10k miles of street wear (with race alignment)
>3rd) Street performance
>
>Again, this is on a neon with stock wheels, so anything that isn't sold in
>14" sizes doesn't help.  Stock tire size is 185/65-14, can go up to 205 in
>width.  Want to keep speedo at least close.
>
>I've only seen one tire that seems to meet the bill:
>
>Yokohama AVS Intermediate.  205/60-14 ($72)
>
>Are there any others?  I saw an RE-71 195/55-14, but that seems narrower
>and would definately negatively affect the speedo...
>
>The tire has to be workable on the street, so I don't know if the 'dirt
>stocker' I've heard about would do that or not...
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mark
>(tell me again how non-race tires are good?  You'd have to reclass based
>on tire availability for smaller rims...)
>
>

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