When I had my Alpine with BR60 X 13 BF Goodrich T/A Radials (old
style), I also found the car to handle sluggishly. I found that 42 lbs
in the summer, and 45lbs in the winter worked great for the front, and
40lbs in the rear. It did tend to wear the tread, but they were a soft
compound anyway. It handled like a dream with these....except in the
rain, where they were simply God awful ! Preasue didn't matter in the
rain. Even witha very tired 1592, I could spin the rear in all four
gears ! But never in the dry.
Rich
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> From: ritchie@mcn.org[SMTP:ritchie@mcn.org]
> Reply To: ritchie@mcn.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 1997 10:16 AM
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: tire pressure
>
> When we first bought this tiger and went to pick it up. I checked the
> tire
> pressure and found 50 psi in all the tires. It had a new set of
> yoko's and
> I thought this was a just a mistake by the po. So I let the pressure
> down
> to the recommended 32 psi. After that she handled like a bus. I kept
> it
> that way for quite awhile, but just yesterday I decided to up the
> pressure
> to 40 psi after reading an article in autoweek about a car handling
> better
> with more pressure in the tires. anyway the car now steers much
> easier,
> it's a little twitchy but not as bad as when it had 50 psi in the
> tires. I
> was wondering if anyone else has done this. I will keep close tabs on
> the
> tire wear in the center of the tread, but I sure like it better this
> way!!
> Maybe the po new what he was doing, although I think 50psi was too
> much.
> My arms sure were less tired after the last run, and I found that the
> car
> didn't bog down as much in the turns and I didn't have to down shift
> as
> much. There's not many straight roads here (northern Calif) and most
> of
> our driving is up and down Hiway One. The next thing I'm going to do
> is
> get rid of this high rise manifold, It does me no good on these roads.
> Regards Armand Ritchie
>
> ritchie@mcn.org
> Armand & Lorie Ritchie
>
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