I got recommendations a while ago (last fall) for '70 TR6 tires, pointing me at
205/70-15's (1.5% smaller rolling radius) and 215/70-15's (slightly larger
rolling radius).
Are there any other comments? I've got stock TR6 steel rims (5.5"). I want
performance or semi-performance tires (a 2-4 thousand miles per year, most of
it not on highways, little or no autocrossing, just driving on nice days for
fun).
I called Teletire (they happen to have a warehouse about 2 miles from my
house), and they have only Yoko 378's (for semi-performance tires) in the
205&215/70-15's, and no performance tires (suprise). I can get Yoko AVS
intermediates in 215/65-15 (I've got them on my Merkur XR4Ti as summer tires),
though they may not have them in stock and they cost almost twice as much.
Comments? I used Yoko 378's on my CRX once (after I couldn't get A001R's
any more, sob) and they seemed ok. Not gumballs, but repectable. Any other
recommendations? I don't have an OD, so I don't want to make any considerable
reduction in radius - highways are bad enough already.
I'm not really worried about how they handle water, and don't care at all about
snow.
The car has slightly uprated springs and Spax front shocks, and a few
Poly bushings. I may add Addco front/rear swar bars; right now it has the
stock front bar. I don't want to push the limits of tire-width, since it
appears as though the front-suspension-repairs done previously left the right-
front tire deeper in it's well than the driver's side (the PO hit a curb with
the right-front, bending some parts (replaced) and causing the rear mount point
to be rewelded). It may just be that the fender(s) aren't equally-aligned on
the frame any more - quite possible. I rebuilt the suspension right after I
bought it - the only part not done was springs, and I'm doing them next week -
I did the rears a few years ago, but the driver's front spring is sagging.
The evil tires on it since I bought it finally died from rot (or rather one
did), and I had to use the never-used original redline spare.
I get back from a trip on the 10th, and need to have safe tires for a 600+
mile round trip to my Prep school reunion the 19th - they used to have great
fun putting my old beat up Sprite on top of stairs, in buildings, etc. I'd
like to see them try it on a '6 - hernia city! ;-) It appeared 3 times in the
yearbook.
Thanks.
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Randell Jesup, Scala US R&D
Randell.Jesup@scala.com
Ex-Commodore-Amiga Engineer, class of '94
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