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Re: Streetin' on Kumho's

To: "JD Kemp" <kempclan@email.msn.com>, <Loren@kscable.com>
Subject: Re: Streetin' on Kumho's
From: Judy Becker <judyb@cts.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 12:42:56 -0700
Hi there JD
We have run our autox car to our race site, about 25 mi. with our race K's.

Wear has been minimal. Ride on the other hand-about 1/4th of the distance is
on freeway that has rake like marks with little ups & downs.

This does make for an interesting ride.

I'm possibly looking at set of street K's for 86 BMW, should be an
interesting ride.

Happy 4th     Judy in San Diego      {:>}

At 04:16 PM 7/3/99 -0700, JD Kemp wrote:
>Loren:
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>Hi, it's me, JD, but I'm using the "home" address...
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>I've driven Lucretia on the Kumho's, wet and dry, a few times.  They are
>skinny l'il 195*55*14's, and they're NOISY at almost any speed.  I haven't
>noticed any difference in that as they've worn down in tread thickness.
>By noisy, I mean both that they pick up stuff and bombard the wheelwells,
>and that they just rumble, like an old 4X4 on Ground Hawgs.
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>There's enough difference in ride to be noticeable as well, although with
>the Saturn it likely wouldn't be as much so, since you actually HAVE a
>suspension to take up for the bumps.
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>And, Bubba, watch 'em in the rain!  I went for some wild rides coming home
>from wet events in Tallahassee with the R tires on the car.  Although, in
>the MG, it was kinda cool to be able to spin the wheels at stoplights.  This
>was after they had significant tread wear, so newer rubber might do better.
>(YMMV!)
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>Hope this helps, and hey, I put that *K* word in the subject line for easy
>deletion by the "Kumho intolerant!"
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>Happy 4th!
>
>JD Kemp &
>"Lucretia MacEvil" #13 MGB
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